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Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smuggler
Posted By: General Vagueness <general_vagueness@yahoo.com>Date: 6/2/08 2:20 p.m.

In Response To: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smuggler (SonofMacPhisto)


:Around each corner, atop each walkway, or camping the top ledge of a middle room
:was a Shishka, a Sketch, a Frankie or some other unnamable, jarring horror.

He really could have meant any number of things by that. However, it gave me a crazy idea: what if it's some kind of VIP map? I mean, what if it's restricted by experience or some other variable, so only the expert players could play on it? That would mean it would be filled with truly formidable opponents at all times.

:if you use 365.2422 days in a year you get 286 years, 221 days
:(but you also get a 5+ hour remainder, so even that calculation is a bit off,
:red-shift maybe?)

I wasn't going to get technical or overly specific, but no, that's not correct, and it can get pretty complicated. If you want the exact time compared to the motions of Earth (or the Moon in the case of months), then you would need to know the time.
:?
The Earth is gradually slowing down, it's spinning slower, and there are slight variations in its orbit around the Sun, so a day is rarely 86,400 seconds (24 h * 60 min * 60 sec), and a year is rarely 365, or even 365.2425 (the "standard" average), days long, whether they're [23 h 57 min 53 sec] days or [23 h 58 min 14 sec] days. That's why scientists are usually reluctant to measure time in anything but seconds (which are scientifically defined in a way that doesn't have to do with the Earth) and almost never measure it in anything bigger than minutes or occasionaly hours.

One small annoyance: people keep saying that the Gravemind had absorbed 2401 Penitent Tangent, but from how it looked on-screen and how he (it?) talked, it seemed to me that Gravemind was just holding onto him, tightly enough that he couldn't escape. That raises its own problems, but he was adamant about containing the Flood, and GM didn't seem to be too fond of him, so I believe he had complete free will the whole time.

Well, any way you slice it, it looks like we're going to find out more about the lesser-known monitor, and that's something I look forward to.


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Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerSonofMacPhisto 5/30/08 8:45 p.m.
     Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerSonofMacPhisto 5/30/08 8:47 p.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerSonofMacPhisto 5/30/08 8:49 p.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerlt_anders 5/30/08 8:56 p.m.
                       Mr. Anderson, welcome back.Major Silva 5/30/08 11:06 p.m.
     Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerlt_anders 5/30/08 8:48 p.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerNerd Boi 5/30/08 8:49 p.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerbedlam 5/31/08 11:07 p.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerSPARTAN-034 6/1/08 3:24 p.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerSonofMacPhisto 5/30/08 8:50 p.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerlt_anders 5/30/08 8:53 p.m.
                       Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerSonofMacPhisto 5/30/08 9:00 p.m.
     Welcome back Iris, or new map reference?Avateur 5/30/08 8:57 p.m.
           Who/what made the reports & requests? ;) *NM*AlStrong 5/30/08 8:59 p.m.
                 The Ark? Not sure.Avateur 5/30/08 9:01 p.m.
                       Re: The Ark? Not sure.j41m3z 5/30/08 9:05 p.m.
                             Re: The Ark? Not sure.Impervium 5/31/08 4:08 p.m.
                       Re: The Ark? Not sure.tombodemon 5/31/08 6:58 p.m.
                             Re: The Ark? Not sure.Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/31/08 7:13 p.m.
                                   Re: The Ark? Not sure.elpolloguapo 5/31/08 9:30 p.m.
                                         Re: The Ark? Not sure.Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 6/1/08 9:25 a.m.
                                               Re: The Ark? Not sure.elpolloguapo 6/1/08 9:52 a.m.
                                               Re: The Ark? Not sure.PsycoJoe 6/1/08 9:53 a.m.
                                                     Re: The Ark? Not sure.Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 6/1/08 11:08 a.m.
           Re: Welcome back Iris, or new map reference?elpolloguapo 5/30/08 9:32 p.m.
     Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerBolognaFire 5/30/08 9:18 p.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerCthulhu117 5/30/08 9:23 p.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerSonofMacPhisto 5/30/08 10:02 p.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerAvateur 5/30/08 9:29 p.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerCthulhu117 5/30/08 9:31 p.m.
                       Thanks *NM*Cthulhu117 5/30/08 9:36 p.m.
                             Re: ThanksAvateur 5/30/08 9:38 p.m.
                       Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerAvateur 5/30/08 10:21 p.m.
     Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerCthulhu117 5/30/08 9:22 p.m.
           THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE :O *NM*Jordan117 5/30/08 11:04 p.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerRoss Mills 5/31/08 3:31 a.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerCthulhu117 5/31/08 8:08 a.m.
                       Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerRoss Mills 5/31/08 3:26 p.m.
                             Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerRagashingo 5/31/08 4:09 p.m.
     Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerserpx 5/31/08 1:11 a.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerSonofMacPhisto 5/31/08 5:04 p.m.
     I'm keeping an eye on this. *NM*BlueNinja 5/31/08 3:57 a.m.
     Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerOmega 5/31/08 1:38 p.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerRosco-128 5/31/08 4:54 p.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerDHalo 5/31/08 6:21 p.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerOmega 5/31/08 6:25 p.m.
                       Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerCharcoaI 5/31/08 9:19 p.m.
                             Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerelpolloguapo 5/31/08 9:28 p.m.
                                   Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerCharcoaI 5/31/08 10:52 p.m.
                                         Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerelpolloguapo 5/31/08 11:29 p.m.
                       Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerSPARTAN-034 5/31/08 10:04 p.m.
                             Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerelpolloguapo 5/31/08 10:09 p.m.
                                   Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerDHalo 5/31/08 11:53 p.m.
           Let's Say...J23 6/1/08 12:01 a.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerStephen L. (SoundEffect) 6/1/08 9:41 a.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerdeadguy71 6/2/08 10:54 a.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerNOKYARD 6/2/08 10:58 a.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerdeadguy71 6/2/08 12:23 p.m.
                       Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglermercury 6/2/08 12:48 p.m.
                             Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerelpolloguapo 6/2/08 1:49 p.m.
                 Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerDon 6/2/08 1:18 p.m.
                       Wait...Don 6/2/08 1:26 p.m.
     Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerGeneral Vagueness 6/1/08 10:38 a.m.
     Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerGeneral Vagueness 6/2/08 2:20 p.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The Smugglerangrymob 6/2/08 2:43 p.m.
           Re: Bungie Weekley Update: The SmugglerGeneral Vagueness 6/2/08 2:47 p.m.
     300 years...Urban Reflex 6/5/08 9:06 a.m.
           Re: 300 years...Capt Spanish 6/5/08 9:09 a.m.
           Re: 300 years...Don 6/5/08 4:49 p.m.
                 Re: 300 years...Urban Reflex 6/5/08 4:52 p.m.



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