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edited 11th Apr '18 6:31:51 PM by dRoy
What do you mean by "[doing] it modestly"?
My Games and Asset PacksWhat would be the catastrophic environmental effects of combined calamities on Earth?
- Combined eruptions of the Yellowstone (Wyoming, USA) supervolcano, Uturuncu (Bolivia), Newberry volcano (Oregon, USA), Kilauea (Hawaii), Campi Flergei (Italy), Paektu Mountain (North Korea) and other potential high-risk volcanoes capable of cooling global temperatures.
- Nuclear winter resulting from a global thermonuclear war, assuming total detonation of all nuclear stockpiles.
- A 70 percent reduction of global carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere.
All land species freeze to death and there's a mass extinction. Are you going anywhere specific with this?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Are you maybe looking to write about what happens while the world gradually freezes over and everything starves? I believe it would take some time before society collapses all the way and everything's dead; I just don't know how long that would take, if it'd be a matter of weeks, months, years, or longer or shorter than that.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
Actually not. I just wanted to clarify the survivability of the setting before I accidentally write a poorly thought-out post-apocalyptic setting which is an unintentional Death World by default.
1. I don't think anyone knows what would happen if all those volcanoes blew at once, because that is a very low probability event. This article
summarizes the state of the research (spoiler: there isn't much).
2. As far as a nuclear winter is concerned, there are many resources online. How detailed a description do you need? This one
is pretty helpful. Be warned that there isn't a lot of research on it
.
3. Carbon emissions are the primary driver of global warming. We are currently at around 400 parts per million in the atmosphere. However, Carbon Dioxide has always fluctuated between 200 and 300 parts per million for at least the last 800 thousand years
. Here is another article
that goes back 400 million years. A full 70% reduction would take us down to about 120 parts per million, lower than it's ever been. I don't think anyone knows what would happen.
Edited by DeMarquis on Jul 11th 2020 at 11:07:10 AM
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.- No significant effect other than locally. Despite what some people believe, these volcanoes primarily undergo small sized eruptions - Yellowstone for example has had a number of steam explosions in the Holocene, some lava flow eruptions in the last 100,000 years but only one mega eruption in the last 1 million years. A combined large eruption would create a brief volcanic winter, but not anything like a new ice age a mass extinction or anything like that.
- Depends on where and on how realistic the nuclear winter scenarios are. Randomly detonating nuclear bombs wouldn't have much effect and I am very sceptical that the other scenarios are treating fire clouds realistically.
- A 70 percent reduction of carbon dioxide would create a new ice age and going by what I know reducing it that much would probably bring us back to Snowball Earth.
Relating to a setting i mentioned some time ago[1]
, i'm making a prequel/backstory for the main story. The specific plot of the story is this: ww2 is going pretty much like in the real world and none of the countries have nuclear weapons yet, but the nazis have a soldier who has energy absorbtion powers, able to absorb and release, among other things radioactivity with no harm to himself. In order to fly under the Allied radar, they transfer the soldier and two other superpowered soldiersnote around Europe to "charge" radioactivity from different sources instead of moving the material to him because three normal-looking soldiers moving around won't draw the attention of enemy intelligence (propably. At least i assume it wouldn't). They intend to "charge" the soldier as full as he can, and have him unleash it on London and Stalingrad. La Résistance has to follow them and figure out a way to kill the soldier without releasing the radiation. Does this Evil Plan make sense? note
Edited by Nukeli on Jul 12th 2020 at 1:56:21 PM
~*bleh*~If a room was slowly being filled with anesthesia, would it actually put the people inside to sleep? Basically, can anesthesia act like a realistic take on knockout gas?
For specifics, the people inside the room are children from 8-14 years old and in a theater seating area (for size reference, think Everyman Palace in Ireland). Said theater has been modified to make sure no anesthesia escapes and all that sci-fi spy jazz.
If not, got anything that would work? I need to knock these kids out and make 'em sleep long enough without killing them or going out of real life boundaries.
Edited by ISS600 on Jul 12th 2020 at 2:07:38 PM
Friends, rarepairs and tropes keep me alive and online. That's it. I...really have no life.Depends on the anesthesia itself, first of all. Different kinds have different properties. Most importantly, everybody has a different tolerance for different chemicals, depending on build and other factors. What might knock out one person might just make another person slightly drowzy. And 8-14 is a substantial age difference, not to mention the health of each individual. The amount needed to knock out a physically fit 14-year old might kill a small and underweight 8-year old.
RIP KissAnime.Yeah, that would be incredibly dangerous. Anesthesia has to be applied very carefully by a well-trained specialist to avoid killing the patient. Using it as a chemical weapon will probably result in a lot of unintentional comas and fatalities.
Edited by DeMarquis on Jul 12th 2020 at 9:17:24 AM
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.Oof. The anesthesia would be your typical surgery level stuff, not sure on the super specifics though. Basically, knock out people and render them unconscious for a long time (6+ hours at most). As for health, that's an even bigger oof to deal with. This is helpful though, thanks mate.
It's not supposed to be a chemical weapon, just needed to knock 71 kids off ages from 8 to 14 out for a few hours to do…something psyche-breaking with them but if comas and death can happen, oof. The person administering it, I would call them a "well-trained specialist" though, in science and I guess medicine and drugs. This is useful though, thanks mate.
Friends, rarepairs and tropes keep me alive and online. That's it. I...really have no life.My character Ashley was a social worker before she died. (I still have to work out which specialty that would fit her) Do social workers ever develop sort of a bond with the people they're working with? I understand they have to be professional but I've been wondering if platonic attachments form anyway.
Of course it happens if you're not a complete sociopath or hardened dead-inside veteran of the profession; when it's your job to help people undergoing terrible hardship, it's hard not to. The professional distance thing is not only regulatory, but also how people remain in that line of work without burning out or having breakdowns over just how terribly the system and society can fail people. I could especially see it happening with cases early in her career.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."You mean shoot it with a bullet? The possibilities are numerous:
- The bullet ricochets off, sending the grenade flying in another direction.
- The grenade breaks up or shatters without going off.
- The grenade detonates, partially or completely.
Edited by Fighteer on Jul 13th 2020 at 6:23:50 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Well, the drow are an invention of Dungeons and Dragons, and Wikipedia implies that the creators may have wanted them to visually contrast against faeries; "as dark as faeries are bright". By that logic, faeries should be dark-skinned and drow should be albino, as you say, but this was a medieval fantasy RPG from the late seventies and the fantasy genre to this day still has issues with associating dark skin with evil. There's also the thing that nocturnal "dark elves" with dark skin would have an easier time camouflaging during night, says writers, which ups the scary factor if they're also supposed to be evil.
The draugr, on the other hand, are fey creatures from Norse myth, and according to Wikipedia, their appearance is supposed to evoke a blackened corpse- they're basically zombies. The Norse lived in regions with very cold winters, and when a human corpse decays under extended sub-freezing temperatures, their skin darkens. Severe frostbite can also turn skin black, especially the tip of the nose, ears, fingers, and toes. By that point, the body part is essentially dead and amputation would have been the only option if the person wanted to avoid an infection, furthering the association between inky black skin and death.
And any other similarly evil dark-skinned fantasy races may have just copied the previous two just because those people did it first.
Edited by CrystalGlacia on Jul 14th 2020 at 9:48:18 AM
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."![]()
Minor addendum: From what I've read, traditional draugar could be either black or white ("death-blue" or "corpse-pale").
As to the Drow, it's also possible that their appearance comes—at least in part—from a rather literal reading of the (Norse) term "dark-elf". Or, looking quickly at Wikipedia
, from that actual Norse lore: Dark elves, according to the Wikipedia article, were indeed held to be dark of skin.
(There's a distinction between "dark elves" and "black elves" in the Norse lore, to go by Wikipedia
. However, it notes that there may not be a difference, with mentions of the latter perhaps referring to the former.)
If story carries an explanation for that form being perceived, then I don't see why not! ^_^
Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Jul 14th 2020 at 12:28:48 PM
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I want a big Neon Genesis Evangelion reveal with the giant robots in my story but I don't know go about it without seeming like a copy and paste.
I was thinking of only making the antagonists have said machines and the protagonists needing to overcome this hurdle with normal robots. I just don't know how to do it modestly.
Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on Jul 10th 2020 at 11:21:08 AM