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edited 11th Apr '18 6:31:51 PM by dRoy
@KSPAM: Try eggs Benedict. Or you could completely subvert it and show your character eating fruit loops :D
What logical reasons are there for a character being crowned king at the age of eleven, without the relevant authorities appointing regents?
edited 28th Sep '13 4:29:34 AM by Kesar
"Suddenly, as he was listening, the ceiling fell in on his head."I might also see it happening if the kingdom in question had extremely strict laws regarding rulership and lacked a precedent for so young a king: the laws insist that they crown the successor immediately, and that [i]only[/i] the successor may rule; decisions issued by anyone else attempting to use the authority of the throne are not considered valid.
My Games and Asset PacksHow about "there are no relevant authorities"?
In most cases, in Real Life, a regent wasn't appointed by any one particular, consistent set of people. He/She was agreed to (grudgingly, enthusiastically, happily, with great misgivings, or otherwise) by a group made up of "everybody who thought that they had sufficient power/pull/influence/right to have their way."
edited 28th Sep '13 8:30:38 AM by Madrugada
What if the main candidate for power-behind-the-throne was a woman, and it wasn't possible to have a woman as regent? I'm picturing someone like the young king's mother wanting to be regent but not being able to, so instead ensuring that no one else gets the job and the king just rules directly and hoping that she'll be able to influence him.
Scepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. - Clarence DarrowAlternatively, if the king himself is precocious and has the plausible ability to do it (loyalty of the army, or some such), he could just refuse to have any authority supplant his own. Of course, this implies some things about the king's character which may or may not work in context.
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I'd use a lack of precedence, but that's already a factor later in the story, and I don't want to overuse it. A distrust of regents could do it, along with natural inclination- I could see the character being told 'we're going to make you King, behave yourself now', promising very solemnly to behave himself, and then ignoring his advisers and doing whatever he wanted. (And getting away with it for a good while, because he's an Adorably Precocious Child and his people love him.)
"Suddenly, as he was listening, the ceiling fell in on his head."If you're talking about the US Service Academies — (West Point (Army), Annapolis (Navy), The Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs), King's Point (Merchant Marine) and The Coast Guard Academy (New London) — they're national. The entrance requirements are the same no matter what state you live in: You must be nominated for attendance by a member of the US Congress for all of them but the Coast Guard Academy, and you're expected to go right out of high school.
If you're talking about private military academies, entrance requirements are going to be as varied as the school.
Late, but I'm going to answer anyway!
Soldiers don't generally use flashbangs, if memory serves. They're far more likely to be equipped with fragmentation/smoke grenades. So "eating"* the flashbang isn't much of a concern for them.
Secondly, as Night said earlier, they'll generally lob them in through gaps in doors or windows and then face away from the opening to lessen the chance of getting affected. They will, however, generally aim to get into the room as soon as the grenade detonates in order to maximise surprise and get the target(s) while they're still overwhelmed by it.
Don't quote me on this, but I think* that they also get exposed to flashbangs in order to inoculate themselves against its effects, which allows them to enter and clear a room even more quickly. They aren't going to be 100% immune*, but they will cope much better.
Whew. Hope that helps!
Locking you up on radar since '09Hi got a physics question. How well does smoke conduct electricity as opposed to air and why? I know there can be different kinds of smoke, but how about ones just burned from air? Smoke can contain different properties depending on what it was burned from, so would it be possible to make less conductive smoke if it was burned from certain materials? Such as the wood of a type of tree. Even then how conductive would it be?
Sorry this is a lot of question I know. -_-
Help?.. please...I've found this
on electrical conductance. I can't check much more right now.
So far as I can tell, smoke is no more conductive than dusty or humid air—so if in a given circumstance arcing can form between two objects insulated by air, then it will also form in smoky air, and vice versa. Looking at the article and what it cites, the main thing about smoke is that the soot deposited can have adverse effects upon electronics.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Well air is relatively conductive, albeit not that much. Which is why it takes really high voltage for electricity to travel through it.
EDIT: Sorry, I think i get it now. But I'm guessing that humid air is more conductive and dusty, less. Would that be wrong?
edited 29th Sep '13 3:37:51 PM by PsychoFreaX
Help?.. please...Actually, as materials go, air is very insulative. Lightning strikes require monster amounts of voltage.
The question isn't the dryness of the air. It's the amount of stuff that floating in it. So clear air would theoretically be less conductive than humid/dusty air. Practically, however, the difference is miniscule, since even very dusty or very humid air doesn't hold enough particulate to make a real difference.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Hmm, I read somewhere that air doesn't conduct well because it's a gas and the particles are more spread out. But then there are solid materials such as Teflon that is even more resistive than air. So would air be more resistive than every kind of smoke?
Help?.. please...What do you think are the essential elements that make up a witch?
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Well, there's a couple ways you could go about it- depending on what he destroys the McGuffin for, she could change her mind ("he valued such-and-such more than me") or just make things better ("he was willing to give up what he wanted for big exalted good-ish thingy!") Also, there's a difference between lacking power and being trapped by it: royal marriages were typically matters of politics rather than affection, and a princess's hand is extremely valuable. She'll know this, and it might be a tearful "I love you, but I can't marry you. I need to put the good of the realm above what I want, just like you did." (Of course, that rather risks a "Shaggy Dog" Story, so maybe not the best advice.)
Also: pet peeve: if you don't have any plausible claim to a throne yourself, marrying a princess should not make you king, at least not in a place where a woman can hold the monarchy in her own right. If he marries her, he should become the royal consort- the Albert to her Victoria. Alternatively-alternatively, you could make that the ending- his destruction of the McGuffin means that the king refuses to name him as successor, but the princess has taken a shine to him and marries him of her own accord. So while he doesn't get to be king, he does get to be prince consort, and one of his kids will be the next monarch. You could do worse as a consolation prize.
edited 27th Sep '13 2:13:16 AM by edgewalker22