From: Dom Twist [thazar@globalnet.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:31 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - re: Brits on line >And I was in the Army for a while. Computing > (in particular the Internet) is my trade, and role-playing is one of the 3 > great passions in my life, so it's not surprising to find me talking about > games online! Well apart from RPG's that I was in the Royal Marines rather than the Army Mexal's description works rather well for me as well. I work with Computers and the Internet, love BP and therefore posting is natural. Sorry If I've been a little slow in replying to posts and requests lately...I read everything but have been rather busy and so slow to post. I think there's rather as lot of us Brits on the Board? Anyway Gotta go GM my Wed' night game. Cheers! DomT I *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Megan C. Robertson [mcrobertson@phoenix.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:43 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - re: Brits on line Greetings dear hearts. This 'Brit' was role-playing well before Douglas Adams released his first (and in my opinion, best) book! And I was in the Army for a while. Computing (in particular the Internet) is my trade, and role-playing is one of the 3 great passions in my life, so it's not surprising to find me talking about games online! Hugs and kisses, Mexal. *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Christopher Gribbon [c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:40 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - re: Brits on line >> Yup - there's quite a few of us "old-worlders" on >> the list. >> No idea why though. >> > >A conspiracy started by Douglas Adams I would guess. Alas - the *late* Douglas Adams now, I'm afraid! :-( So - no more Hitch-Hikers movie on the cards... Christopher Gribbon Vision Research Laboratories Medical Sciences Institute University of Dundee Dundee DD1 5EH UK (01382) 344 229 ____________________________________________________________________ "A scientist is meant to be disinterested, pure; his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio!" - WILL SELF, The Quantity Theory of Insanity *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Mike Czaplinski [mikec@busworks.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:41 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - re: Brits on line At 06:30 PM 6/20/01 +0100, Dom Twist wrote: > >And I was in the Army for a while. Computing > > (in particular the Internet) is my trade, and role-playing is one of the 3 > > great passions in my life, so it's not surprising to find me talking about > > games online! > >Well apart from RPG's that I was in the Royal Marines rather than the Army >Mexal's description works rather well for me as well. Who here pictures Mexal as looking like Lucy Lawless with a bullpup Enfield (the current RA rifle, the one that replaced the FN FAL) slung alluringly across her shoulders? <*attach MikeRaisesHisHand.MPG*> MikeC, why yes, it *IS* a bullpup Enfield, but I am glad to see you.... Sorry, Dom, but I have to quote one of my favorite Monty Python bits: "Apart from the Marines, they're all dead butch!" ObBluePlanet: Does anyone think that Beluga whales survived long enough to be uplifted? I have an idea for a campaign setting that would include a couple (since part of it is in sub-arctic territory)? *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Andrew Whincup [shanhat@angelfire.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:10 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Other cetacians on Poseidon I can see no reason why only orcas and dolphins would be uplifted, especially as belugas are the ones currently cooperating with humanity in a professional sense (correct me if I'm wrong). What had you got in mind for them? --- Shanhat "I'm too young to marry Too old to mess about Let me be your carry out At closing time." Oysterband http://shanhat.webjump.com/ Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Shane.Mclean@t-online.de Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:35 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Explosive decrompression > Still ploughing my way through the moderator's guide and came across this. If it's been done to death then tell me and I'll shut up. > > it says on the section about decompression (I've no ideaa what page it's on) that there is no such thing as explosive decompression and that people merely choke to death, or something along those lines. > > As a long running Traveller player and GM explosive decompression has always been a given. Now thinking about it it may be as a result of the sudden decompression of a lungfull of air but I was always of the impression that stepping out into a vacuum was pretty gnarly and messy. > > Can anyone shed any light on the matter, more for curiosity's sake than because it's important. AFAIK, "explosive decompression" is greatly exagerated. The oxygen in the blood, without the atmospheric pressure to sustain in, expands loads and burns blood vessels and stuff. I'm assuming other orgams would burst or rupture too. I can't see the body turning into a cloud of crap, though. Then again, couple that with the liquid close tot he surface of the body boiling ont he side that's exposed tot he sun, and flash-freezing ont he side that isn't, and it's an all-round fatal experience, I'd imagine. Disclaimer - I am not an expert on explosive decompression, nor have I ever experienced it, so my knowledge comes purely from gaming/sci-fi sources. I can as the various Traveller lists if you want, as they have some NASA/etc types on there (frighteningly bright people!). Take care, Shane *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.