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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'd read that. I know the media and Hollywood like doom and gloom scenarios, as it does sell. But I'd read that melting all the ice on the planet would never result in mainland getting flooded. Coastal areas, yes.....but I don't think people living in Colorado, Utah...

I've made the same mistake myself :) Part of the problem with some unisex names these days is you can't even tell them apart by spelling. You could have Tracey, Tracy, Tracie.......and conceivably any of those spellings could be used for a man or woman. And there are the others like Morgan...

No, I haven't read those. Sounds like she's outlining almost a "Waterworld" kind of scenario. I'm not sure that melting all the ice caps would drown everyone. I mean, there's a lot of ice in the ice caps....but to cover all the land on this planet? Though, as pointed out by others, a big...

In general, yes. But there are other factors like gravity wells of larger objects and such. A rock that gets close to another object that is much larger might have its orbit affected.....maybe enough to eventually turn a hit into a miss somewhere else, or vice versa. Similarly, an object...

Hey, I'm not going to dispute your expertise. My training is in stats, business, and psychology.....not physics. I'm no expert. The articles I'd read about our solar system's position, and objects from outside our solar system being a possible threat wasn't really talking about calculating...

I have both a PS3 and 360, and this week started trying online gaming for the first time, with one called "Borderlands". However, I've been playing with a friend who also has a 360, and we've been having a lot of troubles with the chat. I'm not posting this to slam the PS3. It's a cool...

I don't think I'm misunderstanding the scale. It's all a matter of statistics. I don't think I said that the Earth has passed all the way around the Milky Way in 10,000 years. What I was saying was that the article I'd been reading had suggested that we've experienced a period of thousands...

60 to 70 years to reach another star. That's an immense amount of time. I don't think it's even practical to contemplate. You basically either need to have one of two things (IMO): A) Super-developed AI's, in combination with workable cryogenic technology allowing you to freeze your crew...

Erk.....just a tad.....that should have said 60 light years....but I think while writing it I was thinking it may as well take 60 million years to get there, at current speeds. I didn't think we had stars that "close" to us. I thought they were much further out. In any case, do we really...

So, you use more conventional rockets to get from Earth to an orbital "bus stop" and then use a nuclear powered craft that leaves earth, and heads for other planets. Realistically, I think we'd need major, major scientific advances before we could ever get out of our solar system. With the...

According to a special on National Geographic a few weeks back, Mars at least will be a while. Now, it depends on what you mean by colonizing. If you mean landing people there, then probably within 5-10 years. But if you're talking about longterm habitation, quite a bit longer. Unless...

Woah.....maybe I have to go back into that one, because I'm not feeling it with Mask of the Betrayer. Given the only NPC I've been able to find so far is a Transmuter, and I'm playing a fighter/wizard, it's really difficult to do important things like get healing. Maybe the Planescape: Torment...

It could be....but, it was also a lesson to players in the group against making characters with glaring weaknesses just so they could maximize one or two main strengths....like focusing your scores on STR and CON, and dumping CHA and WIS. Well....there are consequences to that.....particularly...

That was my experience even in 3.0 and 3.5. We had a few instances where the party fighter or barbarian was dominated by an opponent, and sent against the PCs, and he would hit so reliably against the others, even against the spellcasters, that they were spending all their actions drinking...

I haven't done this before, and am curious if it's ok to post stats of NPCs from 3rd party D20 products. I've been reading the book Faeries by Bastion Press, and noticed that many of the characters such as Titania and Oberon etc. have incomplete stats...either they're missing things like spells...

Pretty much the same now. :) Sandy Hill is Sandy Hill. Doesn't really change, except that the houses get older. Fathers & Sons is still there, but several of the other places are now gone. Most of the landscape in the Market is changed though. The Great Canadian Cabin is still there, and...

Carleton has a beautiful campus. I went to University of Ottawa instead, because of my specialty, but Carleton by far had the prettier campus. And it's nice, because the campus is right next to the Canal. As to the transportation issues Gillaume mentions, he is correct. My gaming group had...

Oh, I know......my ancestors were some of the first French to come over, combined with native and later a bit of Irish. I'm in the first generation in our family born out of Quebec. I'm pretty familiar with the politics of the language wars :( I only brought it up because the OP was from...

I live in Ottawa, and have for the last 15 years, since moving here from Montreal. You'll be surprised by the temperatures. I have a friend who married a woman from Mexico City, and she's had some difficulties adapting. You get wild swings in temperature from season to season. I know she was...

Ain't it Cool News said it's better than Prince of Persia, not as good as Pirates of the Caribbean. Banshee