Good to see we are all posting again. Everyone - make sure you scroll down so you don't miss someone's post.
JP - Good idea on the writing - I want to do something like that too. But why not start at writing one page per day? That would seem more reasonable (i.e., likely to happen) to me.
Everyone - another (casually) interesting topic for me is nuclear power. I am old enough to remember when the 3 Mile Island meltdown happened - I remember Mom and Dad freaking out. The nuclear power industry in the U.S. has pretty much been in stasis ever since. However, the use of nuclear power would drastically cut down on carbon emissions, if that is something one is concerned about.
Wired magazine has a great article on nuclear power here. One early, and interesting quote: "Believe it or not, a coal-fired plant releases 100 times more radioactive material than an equivalent nuclear reactor - right into the air, too, not into some carefully guarded storage site."
A good read.
JP - I'm having fun with SP, also. I'm now trying to figure out exactly how the combat works, regarding damage spill-over. That is, if you have 30 Gattling guns, do the 5 guns on a Battleship hit exactly 5 Gattling guns? Or does the damage spill over onto more Ggs when the first 5 are destroyed? I'm starting to think that Flak might be a good bet, certainly if there's no spill-over. My Oekologie research completes in a few hours (after 36 hours of research!) We'll see exactly what a Recyclinganlage does...
Word,
C
- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 2/15/2005 01:48:00 PM