Re: Untis & transport

["Kris Ames" <kris@cioe.com>]

Siphoning is also helped by the capillary effect.

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> From: Steve Ames <steve@ns1.cioe.com>
> To: kklumb@expert.cc.purdue.edu; zodo@laf.cioe.com
> Cc: gmlist@cioe.com
> Subject: Re: Untis & transport
> Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 5:10 PM
> 
> > exactly the ida behind a vacum pump is a big ass siphon.
> > Make some big ass bubble in the hose and vacum the bubble. It will
start
> > the water flow and same principle as a siphon it will keep flowing.
> 
> Am I daft? Siphoning works because liquid is constantly being pulled
from
> one end of the tube (first by the vacuum then by gravity). This creates
> a pressure differential and pulls more liquid into the hose. This works
> great as long as the liquid is at a higher elevation than the eventual
> destination.
> 
> Pumping water out of an ocean for your town won't work though unless
your
> town is below sea level?
> 
> > Aside from the invasion aspect of a portal between Galiea and the
other
> > side is the GM stand point. Galiea is different for a reason. If you
open
> > up a portal between the two then everyone is jumping from one side to
the
> > other on a whim.
> > 	After a while the settings would just start to look exactly alike.
> 
> Exactly why settings should really be in seperate universes entirely.
They
> aren't for a lot of reasons primarily that no one seemed willing to
> totally abandoned the other settings and wanted to be able to move
their
> adventurers between them. Silly reason in reality but thats the way it
> stands.
> 
> 						-Steve