Re: UNITS & transport

[Jevan Furmanski <furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

who started this thread anyway?  Why aren't we bickering about untis?
Personally I think untis should be done away with all together, even to
the last unti.  We just cant have this any more.

Jevan

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Kris Ames wrote:

> Siphoning is also helped by the capillary effect.
> 
> ----------
> > 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
>