Hi all, Have you any experience / knowledge of MojoWorld 2? There's some blurb and details at the URL below, but it seems to be a complete planet generator? ...
... CA to be ... I made a quip about dragooning Eric to help me get a shipment of plastic parts from northern Illinois as a punishment for a bad joke. He...
... You need it to prevent contact with the vessel walls, and as a magnetic "nozzle" to direct the flow, but those applications aren't as stringent as magnetic...
... magnetic ... stringent as ... had so far ... in the ... points are ... (this is ... idea - the ... Which I am not - the above sounds about right to me. ......
<snip> ... <ken_burnside@...> ... Ah, I see. Was worth it though 'cause there's at least 1 other Antioch resident here on sfconsim-l other 'n me (Jim...
I realize this is an old thread, but... http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html Click "Display," then "Planetary Positions." There's also an orrery...
... Do you mean "cylinder" or is this on purpose? ===== Fred Kiesche (FPK3) "As for that downloading stuff, I think those guys who seriously consider that...
Greetings: There's an interesting discussion on one list I'm on (about amateur radio history) about preserving data. The person who started the discussion...
Greetings: I should be clear, I'm not being obnoxious. I was wondering if it is a "cultural reference" within the game, a deliberate changing of the word to...
Strange you should mention this. I work for an office of the US federal government that supports a long running survey, the American Housing Survey (see...
As part of the never-ending effort to provide historical analogs to be run through the SF converter, let me point out that a good precis on US Navy ...
Hey all, A simple question I hope. Can hydrogen be used as a fuel in todays world? For example, could an automobile be adapted to use hydrogen instead of...
... No problem. Commercial H2-fueled vehicles are in use now, with H2 fuel transported in special alloy storage blocks (metals which absorb H2 gas, making it...
... Theoretically, yes, so long as you don't define "car" to include the engine. Economically, no, because you're pretty much going to have to replace the...
The trouble with hydrogen is that it isn't really a primary fuel, it is a secondary fuel. That is, unlike oil, there are no vast fields of underground hydrogen...
FWIW, it's kind of a shame that the closest that Columbia Games gets to a Block SF game is their generic WW2 game "Victory". Hmm, I bet their old "Starwars"...
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... Columbia has a copy of Orbital Victory in house; Kirk Spencer and I wrote it. I was told it got shelved in favor of a Wizard-Kings-level game of fleets...
... Agree, but given the alternatives at the time even the attempt to seem realistic was kind of novel. Heck, Traveller got a rep as a hard SF game just...
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Greetings: ================================================= Maybe Heinlein, but probably not Weber, will be available in a hundred years. ...
On Tue, Mar 4, 2003 at 10:29:21 PM, Nyrath the nearly wise < ... In the random association game that is my mind, I was reminded of Warren Norwood's "Double...
... No, the number of formats doesn't matter, because they're all ephemeral. All those Weber CDs and DVDs won't be readable by anybody but collectors of...
... <snip> ... [Kirk] Yes and no. I agree to some extent about your 'format du jour' remark, but you missed something somewhat significant. Archivists...
... The current best guess: Fuel cell. Still being looked into. -- "If you haven't got your health, at least you have something to talk about." "They say that...
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