THought it was.  It sticks out for me.  I tried to give the new guy a fail safe way to take out a target and establish a palce on the ship, when I should have snuk through the brush and used that rifle to do the job myself.

   I also mis understood how late I was coming to the game and rushed things, changing my game plan for the worst.

   I know it's just a game but that one still irks me.

::chuckles:: it had a Big Impact on the game... Like  the vets have heard me say.. everything causes  good RP with  its  something bad, or something good...

So, I don't normally post links to YouTube stuff here...but I stumbled across this.  It's not a music video...not even close.  But I found it intriguing.

And, at one point, they're shooting a couple of blocks of ballistic gel, and they've got a super-slo-mo shot of it.  If you've ever wondered why Roy doesn't worry too much if he hits a target close to center torso, that gel is a spectacular demonstration of 'hydro-shock'...demonstrates what high-velocity rounds do to internal organs, even when they don't hit directly...

Hmm? Good to know plasma weapons have been banned by the ESN, was not informed about that... speaking of which what other restrictions are there?
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It's not so much an outright ban, as it is just a refusal by the ESN to use plasma weapons.  I mean, nobody told anyone who had any of the captured weapons that they couldn't keep them.  Nobody told Garrat he couldn't build his prototype, or that he had to dispose of it.  It's just that nobody in the ESN command structure considers the benefits of plasma weaponry to outweigh the liabilities.

And Roy actually has done that 'shoot the plasma weapon' trick to enemy troops, a few times.  It did to them pretty much exactly what he was afraid would happen to the Hermes troops if anyone shot theirs.  So he's very happy that people aren't currently carrying plasma weapons on any of his assignments.

 I'm not certain if Zob was around  with accidents   we had  with plasma when we  found the Demons and was  taken the ship... I'd  have to check, but I think  we lost an NPC do to someone using  a Plasma  grenade..

anyway, an unstable weapon like that on a ESN..vessel could be deadly..or at very least, cause a lot of deaths

 go wayyyyyyyyyyy bacl to teh old Cowboy movies   as they tried to move Nitro across the country.. there are a few movies    that have that  a big part of the  plot.

 now  image   the  old movie of the Blob, and  mix the two together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejskHmQA1QE

 is it me?  or  does  any one see  Garrat in this commerical?

   Actually Garrat wasn't the one to build a prototype.  That was a PC in the tech deck who was working with AI's.  Her plasma weapon generated and projected a steady thin stream of plasma and required special coolant for the generation process so that the weapon wouldn't overheat and set of the energy pack.

  Asgard plasma weapons shoot the equivelant of a lightning bolt as per the definition of plasma in contemporary science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdIYwIWfYyo

I stand corrected...it's been a long time...*grin*

so>  some places have  Cotillions , so have  parties..  inmy little coalmining  town ( ex-coalmining  for years)..we have  the   volunteer Fire Co Turkey Raffle!

 My late  wife  went ther e  before we were married  as a 'date  excuse".. we  went every year .. and?  I still go  with, what ever  kids  are here... sometimes?.. I do good.. I gave  turkeys  to   sis-in law on her  side.. My rbother. anda few folks  who were on my  mail route that I knew  could use a free turkey ( they came with a 10Lb bag of  Poatoes)

even if  we get shut out? the money goes to the fire guys so?..its  good... the  extra  thing is  is  'door prize tickets"  stuff   given to  the fire hall from business that they announce  between   spins of the wheel.

 " The Scoial event of the season"   is what I called it.. and now my kids  do.. the grand kids   gather  up  'old  tickets" to use  as play money and see who can get the most.. its goofy.. but its a tradition.. I'll be leaving   before 7 my time, should be back around 9:30  or so.

http://www.coalcampusa.com/wes...dber/scalp/scalp.htm

the very first Pic shows the  Rockdump  before it  was   cut down..largest free standing   'boney pile" in our  area, as it was built from the broiund  up, and  not  dumped over  a clikf , like other one.

 Euraka  40 is  my town... company hosue the Miners lived in ( and were kicked out of before Xmas by the  company because they tries to unionize)… a farmer  let them set upo tents in his  field....

 in the very first pic   you can see a white house, between the ornage Brick  and the  last house   before the  rockdump...That's my house...a lot of the Buildigns  aren't there  any more.. torn  down or  the Flood killed off.. but the  town is still there!


https://www.flickr.com/photos/...6118/in/photostream/

 in this  set. the  first pick shows  my house.. that pine tree. is  3  times that tall now.

 the 2nd  pic  is  the playground in front of my house.there are some Pics of Johnstown where the flood  were.. the 77 flood, the water from our  creek came all the way up to my house.

 the beat up farm house is on the very top of Mine 40.

 Teh Guyhanging on the fence is me,, i ws   giving the photgog some info of the town.

Thank you for sharing those. :)

And thank you for sharing the face behind the Admiral!

I forgot out that pic?.. I was trying to get  a pic of my house, and it sorta  surprised me.

 when the  Girls  came out  here from LA to make that  Letter CArrier Doc?.. i showed them  that as well.

……

as for the turkey Raffle.. My son  won one  and I  won one, so we have   Thanskgiving and  Xmas  covered..for Door  Prizes?.. My son won a Gift certificate for a dry cleaner.. then we won ( including me) 4 sets  of  owl earings  and   owl necklaces… I gave mine to the  girls.

 and?  the Fire hall got much needed funds.

Excellent. Congratulations to all!

Remind me to look at those when I'm not stuck on my phone.  *grin*

Nice pictures. I've found your house on Google maps, but these are nice too.

I get called the Owl Lady at university 'cos I wear an owl necklace :)

 yeah.. I was the ;ast one to  win a door prize, right before  we left... My Son's GF one  an own  earring set... then My daughter  got  earrings  and a necklace... then  one granddaughter  got   ear rings... and  finally  I got  both..

  we   made   Jokes the whole way out to the  cars  using  'owlisms'

The odd thing is, the student software company - Beautiful Canoe - decided to call me 'Wise Owl Megan' when I was teaching them how to do technical documentation... and they hadn't noticed the owl necklaces.

There are 2, one conceals a watch, 'cos I don't like having something around my wrist. In my office, there are several plush owls, a couple of metal ones, and a mug that says "Beware the mad owl lady".

 you need a  working model of the  little Mech owl from 'Clash of the titans"

Grrr…. there  are very high  winds   around her, knocked out power  twice... its been restored  both times, quickly..but ti knocks out   power  and Cable here... hpe its  the last outage..  I lost two posts!

 anyway.. I'm going to try and repost on the RecDec.. then I have to  run some errands... I know weekends  are slow , but I will answer  any posts I see...  and I will Move on 'besserman' shortly as well.

If only I knew where to get one...

There are 2 owls sitting on my computer here... one stone carving and one which is a Christmas tree bauble.

All this talk of owls is coinkie-dink odd.  This morning when I opened my blinds at sunrise (sun was not totally up and it is over cast so it was a steely blue grey out...real pretty), there is a naked crabapple tree I can see from my computer room window and there was a large northern owl sitting on one of the branches.  he was gorgeous!  probably looking for voles or shrews (both plentiful here).

 I have  a  plush owl on my Bedroom dresser,  one of my old gamer friends  from Mississippi  set it to me, it had a   card to  get a star named  after  my wife when she passed..  I never  did it, because the tag was old, but  I  still have the owl, with her note  attacted.


 Niki..make the owl was hoping you'd give  him Henry's  email and he  could go fly there?

I can try.  He did fly off but I think he'll be back.  More voles and mice lately.  My old cat used to keep the numbers down by himself (he could catch them like greased lightning...until old age started getting to him and he finally passed on at almost 20).


this is what the little guy looked like.  thought he was a juvenile, but he looked more like this one.  He was so cute.

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There's an owl...or owls...who has either taken up residence at the park since we closed for the season, or has made the park part of its hunting grounds.  I haven't seen him...but I heard him a couple of nights ago as I was leaving work.  If it's the one I saw a couple of years ago, it's a horned owl...he swooped in and landed on a cable for one of the rides and just watched me walking through the park.

If it's the same one, I hope he doesn't hunt any of the feral cats on the park.  But we've definitely had issues with mice, rats, and racoons, and I'm happy to see anything that hunts any of those.