Dragaera

while cursing amazon re the non-release of _TLoCB_

Timothy Nelson TimN at rcn.com
Thu Aug 7 21:10:46 PDT 2003

I assume the orb can emit things besides sorcery for the purpose of locating
things. It's even possible its Klava(tm) interface accesses the asm of the
planet and just asks for a location straight up.

The orb is starting to look more and more like an evolving, but solid-state
programming library...

----- Original Message -----
From: lazarus <lazarus33pjf at cox.net>
To: <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: while cursing amazon re the non-release of _TLoCB_


On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:24:09 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

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SNIIIIIIP
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>Or you have the Orb send you a wavefront, you bounce it back, and then you
>adjust the frequency until you get a standing wave; the Orb does the math
>for you and tells you the distance.  Or you do the beacon thing above -
>say two fixed sorcery mirrors somewhere which you can bounce a wave off.
>If the Orb's timing is fine enough (and I guess it would have to be) then
>instead of the frequency-adjustment thing you can just do a ping and have
>it measure the time.  All assuming the speed of sorcery isn't infinite.
>

So it's sort of a GPS device.  :-)

Is there any textev for this, or are we speculating?  I totally agree
that this would be an effective and completely plausible effect, it'd
just be neat if we had support for it.

It's quite possible that, instead of big lamps in the lighthouses,
they could have lamps /and/ psychic beacons ( saying, "Go away, I'm a
rock!").  (Hey, neat.  Four punctuation marks in a row!)

Man, that Orb is getting cooler and cooler.


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lazarus

"Folly it may seem," said Haldir. "Indeed, in nothing is the power
of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that
divides all those who still oppose him." -- J.R.R. Tolkien