<html><div style='background-color:'><P>smile ..... great end to this post. Love it.<BR><BR></P>
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From: <I>"Choinski, Burton" <Burton.Choinski@matrixone.com></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>The Powers and Perils Mailing List <pnp@abroere.xs4all.nl></I><BR>To: <I>"The Powers and Perils Mailing List" <pnp@abroere.xs4all.nl></I><BR>Subject: <I>RE: [PnP] Equator</I><BR>Date: <I>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:58:59 -0400</I><BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cool Lynchpin. :}</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">So moving forward in our expose of P&P reality, What is the world/sun relationship, since solar radiation is not the means by which temperature is fully defined (via axial tilt)?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN>1)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Is there or is there not any difference in daylight due to season?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If the answer is no, then cosmology can be pretty simple:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN>1)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Middle world has no axial tilt, revolves around sun, rotates for night-day</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN>2)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sun revolves around middle world at the equator point, providing night-day</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN>3)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Middle world and sun are at fixed points in space and do not move, middle world rotates for night-day</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If yes, things can start to get funky, ranging from near-real to way the f’ out there</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN>1)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Middle world has axial tilt for seasonal daylight, revolves around sun, rotates for night-day</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN>2)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sun revolves around middle world for night-day, but the plane of orbit wobbles up and down</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN>3)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Middle world and sun are at fixed points. Middle world rotates for night day and wobbles on it’s axis for seasonal daylight</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN>4)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As for #3, but the middle world “bungies” up and down through the solar ecliptic to simulate the axial tilt.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN>5)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As for #4, except it’s the sun that’s doing the bungie.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN>6)<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Screw all of that, daylight is 12 hours on average. Battles between the forces of light and darkness in different regions alter the length of day. Certain points of the year are more beneficial to one side or the other, so in the “winter” months the forces of darkness hold sway and daylight time is reduces. In summer months the forces of light are more powerful and manage to increase their domain. In fall and spring power is about even. The
Sidhe and Elder continue to bang their broom handles on the ceiling, telling the jerks upstairs to keep it down and stop with the partly lights already.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> pnp-bounces@abroere.xs4all.nl [mailto:pnp-bounces@abroere.xs4all.nl] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Sylverrs_ dragon<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, October 28, 2005 9:55 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> pnp@abroere.xs4all.nl<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: [PnP] Equator</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Reply to second paragraph - yep. With luck on 20 uses of the altar each requiring a month long ritual. Wanna bet all the crap there is would work to stop you? Existence and use of the altar "may be" the reason the lost city was put to sleep for centuries. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">So the effects of climate (as per distance from the equator) is not tide to the sun?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">So, if you really wanted to be a jerk (and assuming the powers above would let you), you could turn it 90 degrees, making Djanesborg an equatorial forest (with the daylight of Norway) and they would be having snowball fights in L’pnth (and Katai would be an arctic hell).</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> pnp-bounces@abroere.xs4all.nl [mailto:pnp-bounces@abroere.xs4all.nl] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Sylverrs_ dragon<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:15 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> pnp@abroere.xs4all.nl<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: [PnP] Equator</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The equator runs through Ro'babza's hidden city. The angle of declination is 3 to 5 degrees WNW by the same number of degrees ESE (or thereabouts). Hidden there is an ancient earth altar. The forgotten key to its power is cicatrized on the body of the ruler. If the altar is found, and anyone makes the connection (and survives claiming it), the altar can be used to alter the angle (1D6 degrees per success in the direction chosen).</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">General scientific rules for weather and such are nice to know. In a fantasy realm, much of it is where the ruling power wishes it to be (assuming he is willing to pay the price when changes from the norm tick off enemies or balance).</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From: <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Scott Adams <longshot@darktech.org></SPAN></I><BR>Reply-To: <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Powers and Perils Mailing List <pnp@abroere.xs4all.nl></SPAN></I><BR>To: <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Powers and Perils Mailing List <pnp@abroere.xs4all.nl></SPAN></I><BR>Subject: <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">[PnP] Equator</SPAN></I><BR>Date: <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:55:42 -0400</SPAN></I><BR>><BR>><BR>>Richard.<BR>><BR>>When you made the PL did you place the land mass more northern or are the<BR>>north and south seas bigger than we see? As I figure it Map 15 the eastern<BR>>edge of the Ba'rual/Zen'da
border is the center of the PL. That would make<BR>>that line the equator. But was curious if the Sea of tears might be a more<BR>>fitting one?<BR>>Was curious how you did the 'global' view.<BR>><BR>>Somewhat important on how storms form like hurricanes and such. Hurricanes<BR>>can only form 300 miles N/S of the Equator technically. Therefore was<BR>>curious on your view. I know we could put it anywhere but was curious what<BR>>you had planned on.<BR>><BR>><BR>>Longshot - ZC of AdventureNet International Echomail Network<BR>>Fringe BBS - EWOG II - 904-733-1721<BR>>Telegard / Allfix Beta Site<BR>>Website: http://users.cybermax.net/~longshot<BR>>ICQ: 24436933<BR>><BR>><BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>pnp mailing list<BR>>pnp@abroere.xs4all.nl<BR>>http://abroere.xs4all.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pnp</SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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