[TML] 2300 style mapping (was: mapping programs)

[Rob Davenport]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Bruce Johnson wrote:

>> Six nasty corners, actually. The poles and four points along the
>> equator.
>
> Heretics. Everyone knows that the world has only SIX sides <http://tinyurl.com/9rq6

Whoa.  That person has... well, *issues*.

But then again, it has a certain piquant ObTrav-ishness for when you need 
some background blather for that group of nutjobs your PCs are going up 
against.

  John Dvorak post on crank sites:
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1420072,00.asp>

<http://www.crank.net/>
where today's "crank of the day" is:

"Engineering the Warp Drive 2002 Nov 16"
     "A Study of Modifying the Electrogravitational Nature Of The Quantum 
Active Vacuum ... Graviton waves are bidirectional phase waves of 
photon/antiphoton coupling and uncoupling in the vacuum ... The 
engineering of the WARP DRIVE will no doubt be the challenge of the 21st 
century. Progress is being made to understand the exotic physics behind 
the DRIVE with all the disciplines necessary to design and engineer such 
a device. For more information, see the website listed below. Enjoy!"


or

<http://www.metatech.org/index.html> - which seems to believe/promote any 
oddball info.
Like:

<http://www.viewzone.com/milkyway.html> - which says the solar system is 
not part of the Milky Way galaxy, but comes from the Sagittarius Dwarf 
galaxy.
or
"Sgt Clifford Stone, U.S. Army, Has Helped Catalog 57 Species of Aliens. 
Video"
or
"How your metaphysical abilities are being suppressed"
or
"Sgt.Clifford Stone, U.S. Army, Has Helped Catalog 57 Species Aliens."

or
<http://www.insolitology.com/> - which laughs at crackpot sites.



Hmm... maybe this just proves that *everything* has ObTrav applicability 
and that means Traveller is ultimate truth and everyone should drop what 
they're doing and play Traveller and maybe I'll start a website dedicated 
to that and start using a really large Optima font to attract attention 
and keep it all in one long webpage so it's searchable and all in one 
long ungrammatical paragraph...

"Hey, hey there.  Quiet down. Time for your medicine now.  There.  That's 
a good boy.  Swallow it all down and it will all be better."



Rob

-- 
Stupidity got us into this... why can't it get us out?