;) a life saver that
Tim
On Monday, April 7, 2014 12:49 PM, D. Stanley <> wrote:
>This is true, thereâs also an inherently male ability to be doing one thing listening to another so that when the shrill question, âAre you listening to me?â is asked allows us to repeat the conversation verbatim much to our significant others disgust.
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>From: [] On Behalf Of Tim O'Reilly
>Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 11:33 AM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Seth McFarlane
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>Kids, I think, all have ADHD to some degree ... apparently ignoring a conversation and then coming in with some zinger of a question is typical in my experience
>Tim
>On Monday, April 7, 2014 12:04 PM, Master Uxi <> wrote:
>
>>I haven't watched since I saw the mendacious propaganda on Giordano Bruno and its complete misrepresentation of history. Definitely unworthy of Sagan's series.
>>- Sent from my SM-N900T
>>On Apr 7, 2014 10:54 AM, "D. Stanley" <> wrote:
>>
>>Hehehehâ¦
>>
>>I was as shocked as you when I saw he was a producer months back but when I saw an interview with NdGT about it made a lot more sense.
>>
>>Canât find the original interview but hereâs one with Seth and while I donât have a ton of use for Family Guy you canât deny heâs right about the lack of Science literacy in the world and if this makes people wonder and question things well Iâm all for that.
>>
>>http://youtu.be/Ua5xqQpZp8Q
>>
>>My 7 year old is kind of on and off about the program, heâs the poster child for ADHD and when heâs got the focus heâs onboard for it but when the focus dwindles itâs difficult for him to concentrate long enough to connect the thoughts. Oddly he cheers every time Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are mentioned, although he doesnât really understand what theyâre about theyâre his heroâs for some weird reason. Iâll just go with it.
>>
>>It probably started when he was about 5 and I was watching something about the theory of relativity on the TV and after this long discussion on the TV that he really didnât seem to be following he looked at me and said. âSo theyâre saying that an object in space bends and twists the fabric of space around it?â
>>
>>From: [] On Behalf Of
>>Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 10:36 AM
>>To:
>>Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] Re: TNE - Stellar failure
>>
>>
>>> On a related through, I noticed in your reply to DED that Frank hated the
>>> âhigh-pop hostileâ world. I really hate those, too, and (with the horrible
>>> upheaval even in the Domain of Deneb/Regency) used that as an excuse to
>>> ruthlessly crush many (maybe most) of those worlds. (In fact, I initially
>>> went too far and ended up putting some of them back.)
>>
>>I remember some early pre-TNE conversations where Frank saw the Hard
>>Times, post-Rebellion, eventually Collapse dynamic as an in-game "silver
>>lining" way to get rid of those worlds.
>>
>>Not an invalid thought, but you'd still have players and RC going to them
>>to scrounge vacuum-preserved goodies. And there was also the dynamic that
>>star change introduced into it. In addition to the Hi-Pop airless rocks
>>you also had the Hi-Pop worlds with atmospheres around stars with no
>>habitable zones, which worked out almost the same way, because you still
>>had to put the population under domes or underground to provide artificial
>>heat. Fixing the stars would allow them to survive without technology, but
>>would require the "Collapser" to remember to fix the star before applying
>>"Collapsing." That is the way it ought to have been done. Maybe the
>>Gelinas article Alan mentioned in Challenge 77 goes into that, as I am
>>clearly leery of saying, "this is what we did, and we succeeded," where
>>that dynamic is involved.
>>
>>By the way, I had the TV on last night and watched some of the new
>>"Cosmos" series on Fox, and I realized what the root of all my problems
>>is.
>>
>>The executive producer of the new "Cosmos" is Seth McFarlane (Family Guy,
>>American Dad, Cleveland Show).
>>
>>Clearly, everything that I thought I knew about anything is wrong. Just
>>wrong.
>>
>>> Ø Oh look, there's Alell. Never mind, DED, we found it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh look, there is a big olâ screw-up on me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The physical characteristics of Alell are 467. So, yes, indeed, it should
>>> have had one of its stars increased to be F-K. I probably should have made
>>> it have stellar data of âK7V M7Vâ. I dunno why I screwed it up. Maybe I
>>> thought two M7Vs in a tight formation would have produced enough heat?
>>> Regardless, I should have definitely bumped it. Maybe I could have swapped
>>> it around with Boughene and make Boughene be an M7V, and Alell be a K7V
>>> M7V
>>> so as to try and keep the distribution a little more like the original.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On a related through, I noticed in your reply to DED that Frank hated the
>>> âhigh-pop hostileâ world. I really hate those, too, and (with the horrible
>>> upheaval even in the Domain of Deneb/Regency) used that as an excuse to
>>> ruthlessly crush many (maybe most) of those worlds. (In fact, I initially
>>> went too far and ended up putting some of them back.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike West
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Tim
On Monday, April 7, 2014 12:49 PM, D. Stanley <> wrote:
>This is true, thereâs also an inherently male ability to be doing one thing listening to another so that when the shrill question, âAre you listening to me?â is asked allows us to repeat the conversation verbatim much to our significant others disgust.
>
>
>
>From: [] On Behalf Of Tim O'Reilly
>Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 11:33 AM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Seth McFarlane
>
>
>Kids, I think, all have ADHD to some degree ... apparently ignoring a conversation and then coming in with some zinger of a question is typical in my experience
>Tim
>On Monday, April 7, 2014 12:04 PM, Master Uxi <> wrote:
>
>>I haven't watched since I saw the mendacious propaganda on Giordano Bruno and its complete misrepresentation of history. Definitely unworthy of Sagan's series.
>>- Sent from my SM-N900T
>>On Apr 7, 2014 10:54 AM, "D. Stanley" <> wrote:
>>
>>Hehehehâ¦
>>
>>I was as shocked as you when I saw he was a producer months back but when I saw an interview with NdGT about it made a lot more sense.
>>
>>Canât find the original interview but hereâs one with Seth and while I donât have a ton of use for Family Guy you canât deny heâs right about the lack of Science literacy in the world and if this makes people wonder and question things well Iâm all for that.
>>
>>http://youtu.be/Ua5xqQpZp8Q
>>
>>My 7 year old is kind of on and off about the program, heâs the poster child for ADHD and when heâs got the focus heâs onboard for it but when the focus dwindles itâs difficult for him to concentrate long enough to connect the thoughts. Oddly he cheers every time Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are mentioned, although he doesnât really understand what theyâre about theyâre his heroâs for some weird reason. Iâll just go with it.
>>
>>It probably started when he was about 5 and I was watching something about the theory of relativity on the TV and after this long discussion on the TV that he really didnât seem to be following he looked at me and said. âSo theyâre saying that an object in space bends and twists the fabric of space around it?â
>>
>>From: [] On Behalf Of
>>Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 10:36 AM
>>To:
>>Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] Re: TNE - Stellar failure
>>
>>
>>> On a related through, I noticed in your reply to DED that Frank hated the
>>> âhigh-pop hostileâ world. I really hate those, too, and (with the horrible
>>> upheaval even in the Domain of Deneb/Regency) used that as an excuse to
>>> ruthlessly crush many (maybe most) of those worlds. (In fact, I initially
>>> went too far and ended up putting some of them back.)
>>
>>I remember some early pre-TNE conversations where Frank saw the Hard
>>Times, post-Rebellion, eventually Collapse dynamic as an in-game "silver
>>lining" way to get rid of those worlds.
>>
>>Not an invalid thought, but you'd still have players and RC going to them
>>to scrounge vacuum-preserved goodies. And there was also the dynamic that
>>star change introduced into it. In addition to the Hi-Pop airless rocks
>>you also had the Hi-Pop worlds with atmospheres around stars with no
>>habitable zones, which worked out almost the same way, because you still
>>had to put the population under domes or underground to provide artificial
>>heat. Fixing the stars would allow them to survive without technology, but
>>would require the "Collapser" to remember to fix the star before applying
>>"Collapsing." That is the way it ought to have been done. Maybe the
>>Gelinas article Alan mentioned in Challenge 77 goes into that, as I am
>>clearly leery of saying, "this is what we did, and we succeeded," where
>>that dynamic is involved.
>>
>>By the way, I had the TV on last night and watched some of the new
>>"Cosmos" series on Fox, and I realized what the root of all my problems
>>is.
>>
>>The executive producer of the new "Cosmos" is Seth McFarlane (Family Guy,
>>American Dad, Cleveland Show).
>>
>>Clearly, everything that I thought I knew about anything is wrong. Just
>>wrong.
>>
>>> Ø Oh look, there's Alell. Never mind, DED, we found it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh look, there is a big olâ screw-up on me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The physical characteristics of Alell are 467. So, yes, indeed, it should
>>> have had one of its stars increased to be F-K. I probably should have made
>>> it have stellar data of âK7V M7Vâ. I dunno why I screwed it up. Maybe I
>>> thought two M7Vs in a tight formation would have produced enough heat?
>>> Regardless, I should have definitely bumped it. Maybe I could have swapped
>>> it around with Boughene and make Boughene be an M7V, and Alell be a K7V
>>> M7V
>>> so as to try and keep the distribution a little more like the original.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On a related through, I noticed in your reply to DED that Frank hated the
>>> âhigh-pop hostileâ world. I really hate those, too, and (with the horrible
>>> upheaval even in the Domain of Deneb/Regency) used that as an excuse to
>>> ruthlessly crush many (maybe most) of those worlds. (In fact, I initially
>>> went too far and ended up putting some of them back.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike West
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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