You would probably want some sort of solar-system collision event, where another star passes close enough to Sol that Earth passes through it's oort cloud or something. It would also be fairly important that it come up from 'underneath' so that 90%+ hit the south pole(perhaps guided by the magnetosphere) to melt most of Antarctica. (melting the north pole does nothing as it is basically just one big floating iceberg, but 30-40% of Antarctica is over land that is above sea level, so melting all of it's ice combined with a goodly amount of water being deposited by the falling 'dirty snowballs' would be a more reasonable cause of catastrophic sea level increases. (the energy dissipated in the atmosphere from all of that mass 'aerobraking' would help too) This even gives you a little bit of time for necessity to mother the invention of the anti-grav they need to lift the last few cities before they are claimed by the seas(without the intervention of any sort of seer or prophet, unless you really want one)
Then again, flying pirates are generally cool enough that they don't really need an explanation. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Knapp <[email protected]> wrote: >> He means comet... as in the big scary snowballs out there in space :P I >> don't mind dirty snowballs but they better not be brown or yellow snow... > > Yes, I did. And thanks for the spelling help. I am dyslexic and really > suck at spelling. Mostly the Spelling checker helps out but in this > case I was sleepy and could not find right spelling for the word. Does > not help living in Germany and never seeing much English ether. And > for those of you that think I must be stupid, that is not the case. I > say that because I have run into it many times. > > I did mean big, But, I do acknowledge that for it do be big enough, I > think it would kill the whole planet. If say some bit of planet that > got smashed up at the beginning of the solar system found its way to > Earth. Or maybe a huge flock of them: would that keep it from totally > destroying the Earth? > > > -- > Douglas E Knapp > > Why do we live? > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- The man that holds fast to his bitterness will eventually be consumed by it, but if you let it go, your arms will be free to seize the glory that is life. -Terwin _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
