[TML] A Flag!

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 19 Jul 2008 at 22:02, Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> On 7/19/08 9:12 PM, "shadow at shadowgard.com" <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> 
> > A search turns up "Yellowstone Eruption" from 2006. Not sure if
> > that's the one I saw, but the date is right.
> 
> That one's a History Channel documentary.  I saw that, or something similar.
> I meant something more like Towering Inferno, Dante's Peak, The Day After
> Tomorrow, Deep Impact, or Poseidon Adventure.
> 
> Ahh, Found Supervolcano (2005, TV) on IMDB.  So there is at least one
> "drama", as opposed to documentaries.

If it's the one I saw, we are talking nuclear winter and worse 
conditions a while after the eruption.

Which reminds me of a concept some folks were kicking around online a 
few years back. Mayve here, maybe somewhere else. 

The basic idea was that bit in Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will 
Travel" where they are judging humanity, and if we'd been ruled 
against Earth would have been "rotated".

That is "rotated" at 90 degress to normal space-time which would put 
Earth in some other dimension/universe/whatever. With no sun.

The idea was "suppose we lost. Earth is out in empty space somewhere 
with no sun. What happens?"

It could be used in Traveller via an accident with a new jump drive 
prototype. Or an Ancient device. Or whatever.

Be a very *different* situation for the characters.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com