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The lake not having a bottom is very interesting. I remember reading a description of Hell that says digging deep enough will have you going out somewhere else in Hell. What if this lake does that? After a point, instead of going deeper, you start going up. Yahweh's corpse might refloat eventually....

This is a few pages late, but I will never forgive Jamie and Adam if they don't weasel their way into sticking around long enough to film the gate coming down.

I just had a thought: How would George Washington think of our country now? After he's pulled from the pit and all. I've been wondering this about all of the Founding Fathers, really. I could imagine them getting together after being rescued and discussing how America turned out. Perhaps something ...

GrayAnderson wrote:Brilliant job, Michael. Now the humans are going to be leaning towards the whole condemnation-to-Hell of the world as being the ravings of a mad, out-of-control deity (if I had to guess).

It's entirely possible that this isn't far from the truth at all.

Another point in their favor is that Norse culture was very big on hospitality. If someone came to your home, you were obligated to bring them in and treat them well. An envoy of humans to Asgard would probably not have to worry about, for example, getting stabbed in the back in their sleep, or havi...

I'm not sure how it could be best utilized, but this gave me some amusing mental images. (Hint: mouse-over the asterisks)

Also, I was actually tempted to change the dealer part way through the game to the sort of person who the gods might think they could cheat, but who would in fact have proven the sort of character who would have turned such cheating on its head. But I decided to leave all of the Chaos' gods getting...

This might not be a popular thing to say, but the issues the conquest of hell has caused with abortion may be more due to general squick, than reason. Consider this: Most of the fetuses that end up in hell will have brains that are too poorly developed to host a consciousness. Indeed, that's the ma...

I would throw out the confession as well. Like Baughn said, this could set an exceedingly dangerous precedent, which is something all judges have to be mindful of every time they make a ruling. I'm not certain about throwing out the intelligence gained from it, however, since we've had a very, very ...

You know... I've been pondering something for awhile. The "lie down and die" part of The Message... could that have been at all similar to what Uriel does? Only on a global scale, and not quite as immediate? Also: Great chapter! I loved the "wouldn't come in and fight like a dog"...

Peptuck wrote:Right. The UN guy is just overreacting.

Ah. That wasn't immediately apparent; it seemed more like Hillary was confirming his overreaction than anything else.

"We'd be advised to keep as many options open as possible but in essence, I agree with the Secretary of State. If we run into any such bubbleverse groups that are friendly, we get friendly. If not, then we defend ourselves. And that means eliminating our opponents." "That's genocide....

Idly, I'd like to make a request for something the humans do when (not if) they manage to open portals to Heaven. Bring some SR-71 Blackbirds out of retirement for strategic reconnaissance. Since we can't move satellites overhead, they're the best alternative we've got. And I sincerely doubt Heaven ...

If Chavez isn't part of the Human Alliance, then why is Cuba presumably part of it? (They are a reasonably substantive Army) Hugo has a habit of following the Castro brothers around on about everything. Though given that reports make him out to be a fairly devout Catholic, the Message might have hi...

Heck, for the first part of its existence it would be less of a think tank and more of a "getting the dead guys up to speed" tank. It could potentially be helpful if each generation of scientists has their predecessors and sucessors to talk with, so they can get a clear idea of what came b...

For example... if you look at the Manhattan skyline, you can see that the huge skyscrapers are clustered in two distinct areas... down towards the southern end of the island, and right in the middle. These are where the underlying bedrock is close enough to the surface that the buildings can be anch...

...now I have a mental image of a group of really dedicated people forming up into their own "adventuring party" to go into Hell and try and find Gygax.

Heh, I wonder what would happen if you took one of those "dead gates" and just rolled a big rock in front of it, basically making a more primitive version of the iris in Stargate ? Would the dead people get splattered as they came out? Would they be stuck in the void between dimensions or...

I have to wonder... do any of the other pantheons exist out there?

Because the one general seemed to imply that they are considering them potentially hostile if they do, even though there's been no contact with them. Heaven and Hell pretty much laid it out there right on the table.

Oooh, hey, how long 'till we see a chapter of Hell's Angels down there?

I think the post was referring to the fact that the Tylium ship jumping did no damage to the raptors that were right next to it, but a raptor (which is much smaller than the Tylium ship) jumping causes much damage to the Galactica. It did still knock them back significantly. Galactica was too massi...

I have this sudden vision of the Emperor rising from his throne fully healed calling a meeting with the leaders of ever major faction of the Imperium, standing there looking divine and serene then busting out ' WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? IS HE THE ONLY ONE HERE WITH A FUCKING CLUE? ' pointing...

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LadyTevar wrote:For someone who's a song-writer, he did a great job as an actor as well.

I don't think that was him.

The BSG Wiki says that a "character loosely based on Bear McCreary will appear in several of the later episodes of Season 4," but not that he would play the role himself.

The Bolo should be able to do it with it's contra\anti gravs. One of the Bolos novels I've read had a bolo being able to hover\fly at an altitude of about 6 kilometers. Galactica dropped from rather higher up. One of the officers says "Altitude 99,000, falling like a rock" just after they...

How come I now have the mental image of the Eva, with Ashley highly pissed off, teleporting above a target. Around 1 mile straight up above a target, and then screaming INAZUMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK, on the entire way down even as she's doing additional teleports to dodge sh...