01-21-2019, 05:27 PM | #11 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: Mass and air density
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01-21-2019, 07:13 PM | #13 |
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Re: Mass and air density
When I was in swimming classes I used to amuse myself sitting on the bottom of the pool when we were supposed to be practicing floating positions.
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01-21-2019, 10:05 PM | #14 |
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: The plutonium rich regions of Washington State
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Re: Mass and air density
The other thing to consider is how fast this process occurs. If the air is released over several seconds or longer, you won't get a blast wave or other explosive effects (unless the person teleports out of a sealed room, and the overpressure blows out the doors, windows, and maybe walls).
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01-21-2019, 10:08 PM | #15 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Wellington, NZ
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Re: Mass and air density
I was thinking of a really lean, bony cousin of mine when I wrote that. He used to lie on the bottom of diving pools.
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01-22-2019, 10:45 AM | #16 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canada
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Re: Mass and air density
Whereas my father-in-law bobbed around like a cork in lifesaving class. He was supposed to be taking his turn playing the part of a drowning victim in full clothing and the teacher gave him hell for treading water when he was supposed to be demonstrating how clothing drags you down. Cue round of complaints and blazing argument because he wasn't treading water, he was finally pulled down to a normal floating position in water.
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01-22-2019, 11:06 AM | #17 | |
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Re: Mass and air density
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The equal-mass, volume-as-required rule would make for an interesting Limitation on a castling ability, though. Since no one would want to be expanded into gas, they couldn't teleport into "empty" air. You also wouldn't want to teleport anywhere there was something dense, like stone, or you'd wind up getting compressed. So, teleporters need something very close to the density of a human body -- or simply, another human. (The ability's error tolerance might allow for something like teleporting into a swimming pool.) "Castling" becomes a very appropriate term, as this limited ability only swaps the position of two people. What might that be worth? It does take out a lot of the usual teleport tactics. But possibly has its own offensive uses for assassination (swap, kill, swap back -- no witnesses or forensic evidence at the site where the body is found), or kidnapping/interrogation, or insertion of doubles (particularly of the illusion or shapeshifting doppleganger sort). |
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