Low Passage is a low cost cryogenic travel option in the tabletop role-playing SciFi game Traveller. The risk is that you might not wake up. This guy makes a lot of sense in his reasons why it should remain an option for cheap travel.

See Traveller: Don’t Fear Low Passage for the whole details.

Let us refer to my previous post where I described how a fictional space engine from the Traveller role playing game might actually operate ( Read more... )

I have been mulling over the science behind a desktop role playing game (RPG) called Traveller. It is more of a hard science game, unlike Star Wars or Star Trek. My primary musings have been over gravitic drives. My thoughts begin as below:

Gravity is created by mass. Mass is a property given to matter by the Higgs boson. Bosons are subatomic ( Read more... )

Two old classics have been revived, and revamped.

Pong has been updated with new physics based on plasma (like the Sun, not as in blood). This time, it actually looks FUN!

But before you get too excited, I am going to push you over the top. Zork is back as a browser-based MMO. I didn't originally like Zork, but it grue on me.

I am a fan of an online comic called Ctrl-Alt-Del. Author Tim Buckley is an avid gamer and reviews many things related to gaming. His latest (July 7, 2006) post is about an advertising campaign by Sony with strong racial overtones so is not being run in the USA, but in Europe. It seems that racial sensitivities regarding blacks and whites is really ( Read more... )

Earlier I had posted about my computer crashing. I think I know why. Heat ( Read more... )