Larry Hamelin

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• allynh commented on Canned Monkeys Don't Ship Well, the Remix Version
  I can't remember the name of the standalone RPG, from the 90s, but it was a fun system that would store the crew as geometric solids like in the Star Trek:TOS episode - By Any Other Name Just add water and the crew member would be restored. I also remember a spoof where people were stored as dry solids in containers similar to tennis ball containers. They would pop open the can and toss the solids into a lake, instant soldiers. Another system would use a "nano-amber" to vitrify the body rather than freeze them. All atoms would be locked...
• allynh commented on Canned Monkeys Don't Ship Well, the Remix Version
  Spaceship Zero - Found! As soon as I gave up looking for the book, there it was. 2002, not the 90s. Wiki - Spaceship Zero Radio Play "In 2016, several "restored" episodes of the 1954 American radio dramas were released to the internet. Episodes include "Chapter One: The Crew Assembles," "Chapter Two: Into the Beyond," "Chapter Three: The Cataclysmic Miscalculation," "Chapter Four: Directive Beta Five," "Chapter Six: Escape From the Hydronauts," and "Chapter Nine: Twenty Minutes of Oxygen." The missing episodes were allegedly lost in a studio fire in 1962." Spaceship Zero Adventure Hour - Chapter 1: The Crew Assembles...
• Scott Sanford commented on Canned Monkeys Don't Ship Well, the Remix Version
  I can't remember the name of the standalone RPG, from the 90s, but it was a fun system that would store the crew as geometric solids like in the Star Trek:TOS episode - By Any Other Name Interesting. Sometime in the '90s, on the rec.games.frp newsgroup, someone reminisced about an RPG campaign like that. The game master was faced with unpredictable player schedules and so worked that into the world building: in this setting it was normal that while people slept they would sometimes implode into small, easily portable, and indestructible geometric solids. Sooner or later they'd pop open into...
• JohnS commented on Canned Monkeys Don't Ship Well, the Remix Version
  NASA's Mars Habitat design competition might be applicable to things to learn before we can start to think about building starships: https://futurism.com/nasa-mars-habitat-design-competition/...
• Gerald Fnord commented on Canned Monkeys Don't Ship Well, the Remix Version
  Channelling roughly half the commenters on "The High Frontier, Redux": You all seem to be forgetting a little thing called The Human Spirit! (Cold equations are evidently disposative only when you feel like spacing a teenage girl.)...