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My issues have been, not that there are dungeons, but more how they are laid out, and what is (or was) their intended use. That leads into questions of what would be in them. I prefer a location that has an explanation: A history and a purpose. For example, I had location which was a tower...

One thing I’m finding amusing is how this seems to be a crisis on infinite earths in reverse. In the DC television universe, the crisis was resolved by collapsing the plenitude into a single time time. in the marvel cinematic universe, it seems that there will become many timelines out of one...

Hmm. This isn’t indicated anywhere. But the alternate Loki’s could explain if the sacred timeline was more of a sacred braid of nearly equivalent timelines. Branches having inconsequential changes that eventually merge back. TomB

Additional text omitted. The variants did originate in branches, but up now (in the current TVA frame), those branches were all pruned. Any surviving variants would be in the sacred timeline, and should be able to encounter each other. *Except, if the variants stay in self pruning apocalypses...

It seems that the TVs links to the timeline when dealing with a deviant. There was a discussion about needing to go real-time or something like that. Then the monitoring was occurring at the same “time” as the bombing, and should detect these all at the same time. what seems to not work is...

Check out this “Without the Hot Air”: David MacKay FRS: : Contents A really great resource for understanding energy use and options for changes how we get energy. TomB

Eh, a major problem is the huge imbalance in energy expenditures per capital, with the United states being a big problem. We are making progress, but it’s not nearly enough. What happens if everyone shifts to the same per capita consumption as the United States? One needs to think big … not 5...

Haha, that first drop is really great. There are two issues: First, there needs to be a stack of more than 10 bowling balls. Bowling ball density is close to that of water. (Bowling balls less than 12 lbs float. The maximum density possible is about 1.3g/cc.) Second, the gel was...

So this was interesting: TomB

A naive analysis: 17 m/h ~ 25 f/s times 1/10s (or 1/20s or 1/100s) 2.5 f (or 1.25 or f 1/4 f) The block is almost a cube: 10 f by 10 f by 9.9 f. 0.1 f are shaved off of the front and back of the cube (and not the sides). A section of the GC with a top area 99 sq ft is displaced by the...

Haha, and it gets a lot worse from there . Gels are non-linear fluids. The maths behind their motion gets very heavy with tensors and co and contravariance, and other such matters. Re: Your reply to my reply. Yeah, there would be an initial splat, I'm guessing a pretty violent one, with the...

So .. at 170 lb / cu ft, a 10 ft column of granite has about 12 psi (pounds per square inch) of pressure. A typical home water pressure is 50 psi, four times that. This pressure forcing GC material up seems to be quite low. Most of the effect would likely be from the initial impact. in my...

So ... unless the GC material is compressible, if the block is nearly as big as the pit and falls face on, the impact is likely to be quite jarring; nearly instantaneous. The GC material towards the center won’t have enough time to flow out of the was of the cube. it does seem that a narrow...

So ... would the gelatinous cube splatter? It is gelatinous, not watery. I’m thinking either like regular desert jello, or perhaps more pudding-like. Since there are black pudding, I’ll assume the descriptions are qualitatively accurate and treat a GC as being similar to a huge 10 ft cube of...

Making this more realistic: Have the pit be topped off by a foot or so of brackish water. Let there be various skeletons of rats and things floating in the water -- and deeper. Remove the rope (the environment is hostile to it, so why have it?), and put a few recessed grooves in the wall to...

Sure. The question is, what does “Roll20 reward“ mean, and how involved is Roll20 in providing a reward? If there is substantial work that must be done by Roll20 to create the award, then the Roll20 statement seems fine. If the award is simply a dataset that any current Roll20 user can import...

I’m thinking that promise of support can only be accomplished with the assistance of Roll20. Then, claiming Roll20 provide support would be similar to stating that Apple would be building the use of a specific application into iOS. Tom Bitonti

Their text could use a clean up. They present two specific problems: Unauthorized trademark use, and unapproved promises of Roll20 support. But they conclude with “to have unauthorized use removed from the site.”, which matches the first problem, but is a bad match for the second. Better...

I wonder if we really have our conceptions properly centered. Is it possible that T-Rex was the equivalent of a carnivorous dung beetle, feasting on the carcasses of a large and rapidly turning over population of herbivores, and only occasionally opportunistically taking down injured or...

So, about range size: How much of a difference would there because the environmental conditions were quite a bit different then. I wonder what effect differences in ocean salinity, solar radiance, and atmospheric composition would have as to the amount of energy flowing through the environment...