----- Original Message ---- From: Onno Meyer <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2008 7:42:41 PM Subject: Re: [gurps] Sub Trek
>* At a first glance Uplift covers cetacean crewmembers, but those > dolphins were gengineered to breathe oxygenated water. Perhaps > the best way would be to subsume them in the dry dock stats. No >rule says that dry docks can't open to the bridge, or that they have >to be emptied completely. drawin witch was the dolphin was NOT uplifted or gengineered he used a aqualung/scuba like device >Onno ----- Original Message ---- From: Onno Meyer <[email protected]> To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2008 7:56:11 PM Subject: Re: [gurps] Sub Trek >Tom replied to Jay who replied to me: >The biggest and best, but not the only ship of the UEO, right? yes > I agree, there could of been some unexplained technology that the ship had > to deal with the deep ocean pressures like star trek warp drive? There are basically two ways to deal with pressure: (1) Live under pressure and adapt the body to it. (2) Use a pressure-proof hull and keep the internal pressure normal. >Option (1) runs into biological limits once you want to go deep, or >change depth quickly, unless you do fairly drastic changes. GURPS >Bio-Tech talks about it (at least G3E Bio-Tech does, my new one is >on loan to a friend). The wonder tech could be gengineered >symbiotes or nanites in the body to patch cells and manage the >pressure changes. >Option (2) can be made to work, witness the Bathyscape or Alvin, >but it makes it impossible to go out in unarmored suits. The wonder >tech would be simply strong but lightweight materials for all subs >and their subcraft. TL8 or TL9 advanced armor might do the job. >Option (2) sounds better to me, if you accept that below a certain >depth all EVA is in armored suits. I do think that seaquest had a double hull but there are aspects that make it a ambient pressure ship, also, the moon pools, the water corridors (Bridger's follys) Start your day with Yahoo!7 and win a Sony Bravia TV. Enter now http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/?p1=other&p2=au&p3=tagline _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
