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[Mosestrotsky]

[UPDATE] The Path of Least Time Aug 3

[Muffin]

Ah well, the whole 'divergent reality' was good while it lasted

[Scott]

Hey they do have stars! I was seriously thinking they lived in a douglass adams-like world without stars. Always this talk of "above the grass" and stuff. Secretly, I was wondering if we'd have a fFrightfully poorly constructed rocketship and the decree "It'll all have to go."

[filmguy1013]

[tanner]

hmmmmm --- if the stars were diffrent it would sure mess up my night navigation

season, time and direction from the stars for me

[Scott]

well, strictly speaking, they could be fFrom a different place in the same galaxy, of course. It's a big big universe, and we're all really puny. we're just tiny little specks... uhm .. breaking into song. sorry. what i mean to say is, you wouldnt have to go very fFar to one side or the other fFrom Earth to get an entirely different set of stars to look up at. Now I'll grant you, once you move a couple light years, what's a fFew hundred thousand more? So indeed they could be fFrom anywhere at all. I am now sort of falling back on my old speculation of Perplex City being vaguely like Myst, and the world is tucked neatly inside a book somehow. Kinda.

Of course, you do know perplexians look like humans, right? sure ya know that.

[Scott]

woo woo MAIL CALL!
I'm hoping he replies on the topic of the recons.

[Enigmaster]

Lets not forget the classic spec that Pxc is just Earth in another time, whether far in the future or as an ancient untracable civilisation. This stars thing would support this as billions of years onward/ago, the stars would look completely different from how they look now.

[Scott]

It would have to be on the order of millions of years fFrom our current time. The stars move really slowly, (or appear to, rather) and he says our stars look nothing alike at all. I've seen projected models of stars only a dozen thousand centuries, and it didnt look so terribly different then. To be completely different, you'd have to go a good several million years away fFrom right now. As I stated above: once you move a couple years, what's a fFew hundred million more? So indeed they could be fFrom any time at all, as well.

[spugmeistress]

with regards to the fireworks and things, this coincides quite nicely with the thing i read in the metro the other day about disneys new fireworks display and the computer controlled tech they use, firing with compressed air and tiny little remotes that explode each shell at a programmed height as opposed to lighting fuses that create smoke and suchlike and arent half as accurate. sounds pretty cool :)

rach =)

[sledgecallier]

[Mikeyj]

Unless wars are fought by mucking about with other peoples air conditioning systems, deleting stuff off keys.

There is something fairly fundamental about perplexians that is wrong and I'm finding it hard to put my finger on.