... 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
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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
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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
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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...
An interesting analysis, but it does have its limits. Practically speaking, many fuels at some point require more energy to prepare than they deliver. Consider...
... In this case the analysis was equivalent to just having the refinery and powerplant sitting on the ocean and ignoring all start up costs. The only concern...
For those game masters who need to put themselves in the mood for designing a campaign background or monsters or just looking for inspiration from a rather...
Here is a strange idea for a spear design that does not appear to have existed, though it could have been. Part of this uses English (American) units. The...
The idea isn't strange or unknown. Such weapons were actually known as boar spears. As to the shovel / tonfa handle, I can think of several reasons it wouldn't...
For climate control, pg. 71-72. This is to allow cooling (or heating without flames) for lower tech civilizations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube ...
Most science fiction (stories or rpgs) tend to have flat single layer roads even for relatively crowded settings though some of the fanciful ones might have...
The information can use VDS information. This is not intended to be a historical or complete resource on the topic as the details of the various design...
In the various game systems (even most of those not of BTRC), there ares some interesting long term effects of "utility" spells that are good for earning money...
Very Creative! A step further would be to turn things into gas for use as power (turn turbines) or perhaps to make it even easier to move the material in...
A link to a time travel story of an electronic history forum. http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html It does not follow Time Lords rules, though...
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