A year's food supply

While planning to send my team to another planet, I started wondering how many boxes of food they'd need, and how much space they would take up. ( Read more... )

Next problem is how they get it all through their Stargate, or other big stone circle thingy. ( Read more... )

So. Food. They can has.
I really should sleep and do something useful at some point.

Today's distraction: Astrophysics t-shirts

I have an hour and a half before I catch the bus to the pub. I'll arrive a ton early but, since it's the last bus of its kind, so it goes. Tonight at the NSFG it is the Colony Game, and people will be moving to my biotechnician's planet, through the stone circle. Reckon I'm going to bring my backpack and my files thus far. I might have mostly been figuring out what DVD sets they've all brought, but still, I know their priorities.

Have also been trying to get a handle on the astrophysics guy. I can't just make him Rodney McKay only shorter, it's a much lower powered game so I can't give him Science! skill and leave him to it, I have to figure out what he actually does and spend points on all the specialities. Every time I invent a character I have to learn about a whole new career. I understand why there's so many stories about struggling writers, it's a bugger learning enough about everything to fake it.

I started figuring him out by way of deciding what is on his t-shirts.
I liked the one with Pluto making a :-( cause you have to think about it. Also there's a whole 'dwarf planet' line of jokes. There was another t-shirt with a little picture of Pluto that says 'Don't worry, Pluto, I'm not a planet either'. Which I think is funnier if he is a dwarf.
Also I know he quotes Red Dwarf.
Possibly I can keep my tendency to make terrible puns confined to just those two.
... okay, and White Dwarf the RPG magazine, but that'll be totally secret if he just makes Warhammer references.
If I cannot avoid the jokes I must splat them in the editing. He's just meant to be the science dude.
But everyone has fandoms, and that's the main way I'm getting to know characters.

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So his equipment is (a) his, personally (b) portable, in an ordinary car and (c) useful enough he's confident he can do good science with it if he happens to find something M Class when he gets there.

I haven't the first clue what that would include. A decent telescope and a digital camera is about as technical as I'd understand.

But he's wanting to prove where they've gated to, or possibly when. He knows enough about wormholes to not want to rule that one out without data. How he gathers the data I will have to find out.