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2019-11-14, 04:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
A train also appears here.
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2019-11-14, 05:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
V has eyebrows in the appropriate shape, in the very first panel of OOTS:
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2019-11-14, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Actually, I think I remember something about magnetic compasses going completely haywire in the vicinity of the poles, but I'm sure Plot will happen along the way long before that becomes a problem, Bandana.
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2019-11-14, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Also, you can't have a railroad plot without railroads.
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2019-11-14, 11:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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You can't not sit in magnetic Santa's lap.Florine gas is significantly more stupid evil than chlorine. It was never really used as a weapon because while it's good at killing people, it not good at being sent to the enemy first.As you come closer to the pole, the compass tries to point downwards in the north and upwards in the south. The dominant factor becomes the pitch the compass is held at. If you try to force the compass to be level you'll eliminate the big obvious things, but not the random little stupid things like turbulence or the positions of people on the bridge.
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2019-11-14, 12:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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All this talk about compass and poles, but it sure is more efficient to use a sextant there.
Though, you may have difficulty to find a sextant on the poles.Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protègent la France.
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2019-11-14, 12:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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To be fair, the word "train" was being used to describe a line of vehicles back in our 15th century (per Wiktionary, and I remember having read similar info elsewhere). Train whistles, though, would be anachronistic so far as we know. Though Belkar's familiarity with "The Trolley Song" clearly shows that some information is creeping back across the 4th wall.
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2019-11-14, 12:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-14, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-14, 04:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-14, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well of course it's after espresso, we have in comic evidence that that exists.
Edited to add: In our world the espresso machine was patented in 1884, while the first heavier than air flying craft was 1903. Assumed year is thus 1894 if based on espresso or 1898 if based on heavier than air flight. The first zeppelin flight was in 1900 and was not carrying commercial passengers for a number of years after that, while commercial steam trains date to 1812 or so.
Thus in the available range of dates based on Fyraltari's claim, the airship is anachronistic, but the train reference is not. [End edits]Last edited by Doug Lampert; 2019-11-14 at 04:24 PM.
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2019-11-14, 04:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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That link is better evidence that V had heard of the concept of espresso than that espresso machines were actually available. Just like I can imagine a more contemporaneous character agreeing to worship a fictional deity only if it could provide practical cold fusion.
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2019-11-14, 05:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Providing cold fusion would greatly increase my chance of joining a religion.
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2019-11-14, 09:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-14, 09:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Might be one of the Dragon strips.
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2019-11-14, 10:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-15, 07:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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There was a shot of the solar system at the end of How the Paladin Got his Scar.
Hey, it’s strip 1186, and isn’t it also year 1186 in universe?
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2019-11-15, 09:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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This sound a bit like the cult of Aton.
Their symbol is a giant nuclear reactor, after all.Last edited by Petrocorus; 2019-11-15 at 10:17 AM.
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2019-11-15, 10:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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While the first primitive steam locomotives were in use by 1820, it wasn't until the Bessemer process came along in the 1850s that sufficient quantities of quality steel for large rail networks could be mass produced. Bessemer patented his process if 1856, and the first great rail networks went up over the next decade.
Henri Giffard flew the first powered airship in 1852. So... sometime between 1852 and 1856, if you want to be technical. (Practically speaking, there wouldn't be useful airships until the early 1900s, but I was curious if there was anyway to come up with an even remotely arguable answer in the affirmative.)
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2019-11-15, 11:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-15, 11:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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The tricky thing about building an atomic bomb, apart from getting the materials, is designing it so that the subcritical masses are brought together quickly enough. If so, you get a fully critical mass, rather than multiple masses getting close together that are just on the edge of criticality and melt / boil / splatter and make a big mess as well as giving off quite a bit of radiation. As I understand it.
A plutonium elemental would appear to have many critical masses of plutonium, already all together, but (by your assumption) somehow prevented from exploding by virtue of being "alive". Whether you'd get a nuclear fireball or a messy dangerous toxic fizzle would depend on whether or not that explosion prevention disappeared instantaneously.
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2019-11-15, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-15, 03:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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It would depend on the purity of the plutonium, same as plutonium warheads which are also detonated by implosion.
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2019-11-15, 04:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-15, 04:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-15, 04:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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The real question is, what kind of damage does a nuclear explosion deal? I feel like it would deal a large amount of radiant damage on detonation, and everyone in the blast radius would have to save vs. blindness. Then probably fire damage post-explosion, and then...I don’t know...maybe poison damage, to represent the falllout? Or some kind of disease? I know very little about 3.5 edition.
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2019-11-15, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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