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Re: Answers & Questions Q: What fact is generally unacknowledged for the sanity of all involved? A: Moon-Brew.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Drops of Jupiter - Train

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Take Me Home - Phil Collins

Re: Answers & Questions Q: You do realize he's bulletproof? A: I fed him to Narf.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Fire and Rain - James Taylor.

Re: Generic SF Universe Project Count me interested. I want to run a Space Hero game sometime, and a setting like this could be useful to have. What do you need?

Re: Population Growth for a colony I think you're being too conservative, KK. A common trend in "frontier" areas (the US West and Australia during the 19th Century, for instance) is large families. The reason those areas stayed frontier and didn't fill up fast was due to equally high death rates - mostly due to disease. Unless you're talking about dropping colonists with no supplies and no support, we can reasonably expect death rates only slightly higher than in modern periods, thanks to vaccination, barrier nursing and modern germ theory, which combined tend to kill epidemics before they start. These need little in the way of high-tech - it's just a better understanding of the problem that makes all the difference. In the 19th century, 50% child mortality rates were not uncommon. I would be surprised at a 10% rate with a colony planted with modern technology, let alone where medicine has reached by the time we have the capacity to reach another inhabitable world. So, if a family in the NA West had eight kids, four would reach breeding age. In a modern colony, seven would manage that feat (on average, of course). My best guess? 150% increase in population per generation, 200% in the initial generation (before the first settlers start to drop off due to age).

Re: Space Warfare II - Stealth Reconsidered Without a doubt. However, just as Einstein did, he will change our way of looking at why the universe acts as it does - not what it does.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Where do you keep your mobs? A: Obviousness is it's own reward.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I Want to Hear it From You - Go West

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Where can I find some more blankets? My girlfriend just said she's cold. Q: I'm sure I left him in this car park..? Or was it the one around the corner? A: It turned left, tiptoed along the foothills, then dove straight for Boise.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran

Re: Space Warfare II - Stealth Reconsidered No way you could absorb enough of the EM radiation to make you invisible - especially not in the IR spectrum. Worse, that heat has to go somewhere - you'd eventually cook your crew.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Children of the Moon - The Alan Parsons Project

Re: Mottos for use in games Same universe. In fact, I seem to recall something about them being compatible.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Silence and I - The Alan Parsons Project

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What was the final argument for the defence in USA vs. God? A: I am the eggman.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Underneath The Radar - Underworld

Re: Answers & Questions Q: I see that two meter tall hurdles aren't too much of a problem for your guy. A: We just switched his shave cream with Krazy Glue.

Re: Who would be the Super Villians of your area? For Western Australia, two: Lord Lassiter, the son of a man who made a fortune in mining gold. Though he has no superpowers, Lord Lassiter has great charisma and drive; he has built an underground organization based upon breaking WA away from the rest of the country and establishing a nobility-based government. Mantaker, a mutant Great White Shark. With humanoid shape and a viciously cunning intelligence, Mantaker has terrorized Perth and environs on several occasions; currently, the 30' tall creature is confined in the Aquarium of Western Australia.

Re: TV to rpg One not mentioned: The Starlost. Rightfully forgotten, due to poor scripting and atrocious plots (Harlan Ellison was involved at first, but demanded his name be removed from the credits) it only went for a few episodes before being killed. Righteously. However, the premise is Gold. A group of people discover that their idyllic, agrarian existence is bounded by walls - and find the door. They are actually on a generation ship carrying millions of people, all in their own cultures' separate biospheres, most knowing nothing of what lies beyond. But they also find a problem - the ship has suffered a disaster, the crew is dead, and the ship is on a collision course with a distant star...

Re: Who would be the Super Heroes of your region? Western Australia has Red Dust, a man transformed by the power of the land itself, capable of changing his density from being a red stone brick to a cloud of his namesake, and teleporting anywhere in the western half of the country via the living stone.

Re: Space Warfare II - Stealth Reconsidered More like "deception" than stealth - as I shall point out.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why are you funding the creation of catgirls? A: I don't think you're being entirely truthful.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Shall we get going, or do you wish to traumatize more people with your mere presence? A: I told you not to stick that in your ear.