06-24-2019, 03:07 AM | #2031 |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
What does a post-apoc road warrior need to be faster than the wind?
Apparently, nothing more than the power of the wind itself! How counterintuitive and implausible: wind-powered vehicle moving faster than wind that powers it. |
06-24-2019, 11:49 PM | #2032 |
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
Ritual trepanation in Chalcolithic Russia to unlock Magery 2.
Why Our Ancestors Drilled Holes In Each Other's Skulls She believes that trepanations in specific, dangerous areas of the cranium may have been performed to achieve "transformations" of some kind. She suggests that, by trepanning in these places, people thought they could acquire unique skills that ordinary members of society did not have.
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06-25-2019, 09:43 PM | #2033 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shoreline, WA (north of Seattle)
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
So this popped out of the pages of GURPS Cabal and ended up in my neighborhood, about four minutes from my house:
The Sekhet-Maat Lodge, OTO. Not to knock alternative religion, but if I was looking for an example front organization for a Cabal lodge, I don't think I could make up a better one. It's even go the mandatory Egyptian-themed name. |
06-26-2019, 01:26 AM | #2034 | |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
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06-26-2019, 05:19 PM | #2035 |
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Salt Lake City
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
Would the Electric Universe be of some help for Space campaigns?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7PceycgJg |
06-27-2019, 10:39 AM | #2036 | |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
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Now, that they doing it from due abaft, interesting. |
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06-29-2019, 04:58 AM | #2037 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
The counterintuitive part is that the craft moves faster than the wind while powered only by it. Imagine blowing at a light item and having the item move away from you faster than the air moving out of your mouth.
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06-29-2019, 06:43 AM | #2038 |
Join Date: May 2007
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
I think Aramis's point is that sailing ships have been traveling faster than the wind that propels them (when that wind is not from dead aft) for thousands of years, so, while it may be fairly mind-blowing, people familiar with nautical issues sort of have their mind pre-blown on this matter.
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06-29-2019, 10:57 AM | #2039 |
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
But in this case, the wind is dead aft, which is the mind-blowing part. Also that the same rig can sail directly into the wind faster than the wind
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06-30-2019, 09:46 PM | #2040 |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
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