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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 394880" data-attributes="member: 6533">B. A. TopicI have one minor application for Teep Circles that might help out the traffic problem.  And create some neat power tacticsThe portals run one way, and, unless I don't know something, you could put the terminus of one facing down on cieling.  Then you can just dump something relatively fluid but necessary, like water, grain, pieces of gold, coal, or charcoal directly into a storage space from wherever it was manufactured.The nasty application of this is to have all of your decanters of endless water for your empire in one location.  You could set up fairly regulated water pressure through this system and if a city is in revolt you could either destroy it by pumping something nasty through its water supply system or discourage it by cutting the water supply off.You could apply the prinicpals of hydraulic dictatorship on a truly massive level.Hell, you could not only keep the location of the central water city private, you could surround the whole water thing with secrecy using those clever dwarf masons to disguise it as magic springs.Which you would be anyways, but the pcs like it better when everything is an enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in bacon.BTW: someone said something about Columbus's big concern being censure from the Pope for ruining cosmology.Well, Popes can believe a lot of wacky things, but the one big debate Columbus had with church authorities wasn't the shape of the world, it was its size.Church authorities were very clear about the shape of the world and you don't need to take my word for it: Read Dante's Divine Comedy or take a look at the big round worldy thing Christ is sitting on in the mosaics at Ravenna.The Greeks had calculated the size of the Earth some millenia earlier and Medieval/Renaissance scholars had confirmed the numbers.   They just didn't know that the Atlantic doesn't stretch all the way to Japan.   There's these two things called North and South America in the way. A group of monks in Spain had exactly this knowledge and told Columbus he was going on a fools voyage, because he was both taking the long route and dooming his men to a voyage the monks were pretty sure their sailing ships and supplies couldn't get them through.Columbus had a very poor interpretation of Marco Polo and a slightly poorer knowledge of astronomy with which he defended himself.  He did not win the debate.Some people say he knew the Viking sagas or stories from Basque fishermen which made him more certain, but he didn't mention them at the time.Regardless, he got the funding and the blind luck of plate tectonics worked in his favor.  And so monks who were willing to rely on science lost a lot of face.  Primarily due to people, such as the poet Washington Irving, who were unwilling to believe in an educated Catholic.This history lesson brought to you by: Insomnia, the drink what makes you read/write/speak about medieval/renaissance history and not know when to stop.</blockquote>

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