It'd make landscape photos much more fun, I think. And I wonder if a "ring project" could make space junk into a planetary feature rather than a navigational hazard? :)
That was great, I loved all the different views from the rings from different places. The only thing I wish it had covered is how the shadow would have affected things. Would the shadow be in the same place most of the time? That would have a serious affect on whether people could live in those places and other ways it would affect living things.
Also, could the Earth support rings *and* a moon? No moon means no tides. I've also read a theory that the moon helps stabilize the planet in some ways, dampening some wobbling that would make the planet more unstable.
I think a serious scientific study of what the Earth would be like with rings instead of a moon could make a full documentary.
*My Wife* wants to know where we can get those stained glass dice lamps. Any chance they have a web site??? (We're buying our first home this month. Perhaps she's looking to decorate :D)
The lamp (I think that's the light up d20) is $80, the clock (a flat glass d20 with hands and mechanism) is $80, and they also have some smaller Christmas ornament dice fo $15.
I'm thinking I'm going to have to grab one before the con's over... :)
Re: Star Trek gag reelps238principalNovember 21 2009, 21:29:42 UTC
Not at all, I've got my list o' complaints, too (I think Scotty's alien pal was a tacked-on attempt to be cute, and if they're going to make engineering out of a brewery, it needs to look less like a brewery than... a brewery), but it didn't sink below "Star Trek V" for me, and it did have at least one event I was certain they would "fix" before the end of the movie, but instead left as a rather monumental alteration...
But I do still wish they'd done more of a reboot that set it as "our" future instead of being a slight re-do of "1960's" future.
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Also, could the Earth support rings *and* a moon? No moon means no tides. I've also read a theory that the moon helps stabilize the planet in some ways, dampening some wobbling that would make the planet more unstable.
I think a serious scientific study of what the Earth would be like with rings instead of a moon could make a full documentary.
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I think they said you could drop a line and request to be notified when the site goes live. Let me sneak over to his table...
...and I snagged the price list:
d20: $60
d10: $45
d6: $30
d12: $45
d8: $35
d4: $30
The lamp (I think that's the light up d20) is $80, the clock (a flat glass d20 with hands and mechanism) is $80, and they also have some smaller Christmas ornament dice fo $15.
I'm thinking I'm going to have to grab one before the con's over... :)
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Thanks also to you Dice Collector!
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Apologies, not normally so bitchy
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But I do still wish they'd done more of a reboot that set it as "our" future instead of being a slight re-do of "1960's" future.
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