Here is an article on a technology called "Seabrakes": http://www.sail-world.com/indexs.cfm?nid=37868 It can for design purposes be considered a form of...
An interesting article for background information: http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6084 It has principles that could be applied to other...
For an inspirational idea that could lead into horror are website links on a disease behind the story of the mythical creature called the jackolope. It is a...
Here is an article on chimps that use spears: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2244829320070222 In particular it was apparently only the females...
SARCO has demonstrated a working, strength-boosting full exoskeleton. Still needs a long extension cord to operate, but the video of it in operation is ...
I think that DARPA should hold a number of "Grand Challenge / X-Prize" annual contests every year to speed up the development of certain technologies that...
This is mostly from the fission reactor requirements on page 115. These should be added to the power plant section for those who choose the more advanced...
This is a brief discussion on designing weapons at the edge of design limits for optimizing the performance. It should be noted that these designs are only...
Here is an article link for inspiration on a form of sound technology and someone who can be used as a model for a kind of mad scientist type who is successful...
Yep. I've been intrigued with HSS ever since I heard of it several years ago. I'm waiting for both a hobbyist kit and the first sonic laser... Greg BTRC...
... There does appear to be some more recent information: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20071217.aspx There was an unrelated information in...
For the more lower tech environment, there is a technology by which lower tech civilizations have access to some plastic technology without access to petroleum...
... Plastics are surprisingly low-tech. In our own world, research into them simply didn't start until about 1860 when a billiards-supply company awarded a...
The flammability of celluloid is one of, if not the biggest, reason so many old movies are either gone forever or at least missing in their original form. It's...
Here is a link to a proposed whale shaped dirigible. http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/10/manned-cloud-by-jean-marie-massaud/ It has some links to other floating...
Does anyone know of any SF/space opera resources for CORPS that's available on the web? I've looked, but my google-fu is weak... - Perry "Honor thy error as...
knightsky@...
Jan 20, 2008 8:18 pm
2031
I cross-posted your request to the EABA list and someone posted this site: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/2838/disk/disk.html I haven't checked it,...
Thanks, Greg! - Perry "Honor thy error as hidden intention." Perry's song of the moment: "Tie Dye on the Highway", Robert Plant Often seen lurking at...
knightsky@...
Jan 23, 2008 3:22 am
2033
Since I wrote that page--that's for the Alderson Disk campaign--I can give you any background reasoning you want on it. ... From: knightsky@... To:...
Nice page you have there. While I'm mainly looking for tech/stat stuff (i.e. starts for ships, extra rules for handling a SF setting, etc), anything that helps...
knightsky@...
Jan 24, 2008 2:55 am
2035
Here is a link to a blog about various images and articles of how the past viewed the future: http://www.paleofuture.com/ The more famous book on a rather...
This is more like the beginning part of VDS which made suggestions of how various vehicles can be designed. Powered armor and powered exoskeletons generally...
While everyone is big on the anthropomorphic armors, I suspect that by the time TL12 ends we ought to have artificial limb tech and touch sensors down to where...
Here is an old article of a glove version: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/26/electric-glove-for-police-stuns-victims- with-1500-volts/ These days they...
Hey all: The Black Death bubonic plague board game is now available at RPGnow.com: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=54873&affiliate_id=88 ...
Looking a little more closely on the concept of a civilization choosing a single major form of energy resource, a problem with fusion fuels was found. In...
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