Paul Drye @ pauldrye @lemm.ee Posts 45Comments 53Joined 3 mo. ago
SS Baychimo - Arctic trading ship trapped in pack ice north of Alaska, abandoned but seen repeatedly in different locations over the next 40 years
Death of Christoph Bulwin - A man says he's been injected with mercury by an unknown assailant, then dies.
Commander Keen is probably the one that I liked the most that is also well known.
My personal favorite was Bass Class, which is weird because I've zero interest in real-life fishing, then or now.
The identification depends on how correct Jerome's rescuers were in thinking his amputations were not completely healed and so were recent. Gamby showed up across the bay four years previous and was missing his legs then.
Jerome of Sandy Cove - A castaway with both legs recently amputated, and who never spoke for the rest of his life
Yes, eventually?
Lost Cosmonauts - Rumours and supposed recordings of failed and covered-up Soviet missions and cosmonaut deaths
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis - surgery that uses a patient's own tooth grafted into their eye
Well, yes -- in the 21st century women should be encouraged to enter traditionally male-dominated fields like excavation and mining.
Though the split happened because the Soviets thought they should be master of all Communist countries and the Chinese had different ideas on the topic.
Yes, the Diplomatic Revolution for one.
This sounds like something they'd name an Italian character in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon.
DTRPG's Daily Special is a $2.00 Traveller-themed book of d66 Random Tables
Spoken like a true burglar.
"Revolutionary Paris" had me thinking about this entirely the wrong way.
It's the Daily Mail, so it's not likely to be, you know...at all like this.
Good thing he didn't throw his drinking problem overboard instead.
Fingers crossed it's Thingumy and Bob.
Star Trek: Alpha Quadrant -- Free Traveller/CE rules for the ST universe by Steven J. Ege
Ganong makes Chicken Bones, which are a cinnamon candy. They're mostly chocolate, though: Pal-o-Mine chocolate bars, Delecto Peanut Clusters, and they're introducing a new one they bought out from an American manufacture: Sixlets, which look like chocolate M&M's from the pictures and their website.
Prana makes a bunch of nut snacks like salted cashews and almonds.
It's worth noting that "No one had ever traced such a track, as a modern navigator would do" is just wrong. Joseph B. Murdock was with the United States Coast Survey and an instructor at the US Naval Academy and he came up with San Salvador as the landing site at the turn of the 20th century. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison sailed up and down the US' East Coast in a small boat just for funsies and so knew that kind of navigation as well as anyone; he came up with San Salvador too in the 1930s.
!Traveller@ttrpg.network is about the venerable Traveller TTRPG, and is new in the last couple of weeks. It's seeing some activity every few days right now so it might not take much more to get it off the ground.
In fact he covered it on the same album! This one went to #1 on the US Charts and "Beyond the Sea (La mer)" went to #10.
Which is hilarious because at this song's from Three Penny Opera which is critical of capitalism, and its author (though not the creator of the music) was forced to testify in the Hollywood Blacklist sessions of HUAC in 1947 -- he left to live in East Germany the day after.
Traveller author here (I co-wrote the GURPS: Traveller supplements for the Sword Worlds and Interstellar Wars period). Been continuing on self-publishing using the open-license version, Cepheus Engine in recent years. Free world book here on DTRPG, its own setting but compatible with the Long Night period.
In the case of velocity, all neutrinos move at essentially the speed of light (they have the slightest amount of mass which slows them down, each of the three types of neutrino a different mass compared to the other two but still very, very, extremely low masses). Only neutrinos less than 2 eV are noticeably slower than light, and that's quite a low energy. The almost-exactly-light-speed has been confirmed by, among other methods, comparing bursts of neutrinos from supernovas and other intense sources to the photons coming from the same sources.
The photons move at the speed of light by definition and MeV and GeV energy neutrinos show up in detectors at the exact same time down to as close as we've been able to measure it (roughly one part in a billion, I think it is).
The lands around it being ruled by the Sultan of Swing, no doubt.