 [RL] A bioware (or physad?) compass, Cool new info on bacteria.... |
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 4-September 04 Member No.: 6,628  |
Check it out:
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/nanoscale_c...etic_field_9339 I wouldn't mind having a built in compass system like that someday. It'd probably let you know about other magnetic fields as well. Could be handy for sensing cyber or bugs. |
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Nov 22 2005, 02:26 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
You are aware that many creatures have an iron deposite that is linked up to their nervous system?
In humans it's a little bit somewhere in the nasal region, while in birds I think it's either directly at the brain or maybe just close. So what you really want is to get your iron deposite moved so it hooks up more strongly as a sense. Maybe placed directly in your optic nerve perhaps? |
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Nov 22 2005, 04:33 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 4-September 04 Member No.: 6,628 |
This I am aware of, it's just some cool new info about the genetics behind this that I wanted to share.
This I was not aware of.
Now I heard somewhere that certain birds have this in their eyes so they can see magnetic fields, could a variation of this be what gives supposed real world "psychics" their "aura vision"?
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Nov 22 2005, 04:57 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
hmm, makes me think of technomancers.
now if that same deposit can store up enough of a charge to transmitt or alter a signal, things could get realy interesting... |
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Nov 22 2005, 05:00 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 21-November 05 Member No.: 7,990 |
My mistake, I misread the article. This post would have made no sense.
This post has been edited by Fred1000000: Nov 22 2005, 05:01 PM |
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Nov 25 2005, 03:58 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
This isn't necessarily the case in EVERY human. Or at least many humans don't have enough for us to be sensitive to it. That's why some people have an innate sense of direction and some don't. Some people just have more iron boogers. |
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Nov 25 2005, 07:54 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
I should've italicized "little."
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Nov 25 2005, 08:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630 |
IIRC, there's a non-canonical (I think) Adept power that already does this.
It's called "Direction Sense", and it's listed along with the other Adept powers governing sensory enhancements. Here's a link: The Newest Physical Adepts Handybook V. 2.0 (Note: Of course, it's your choice whether you click on "Open" or "Save" when the prompt giving those options pops up at the start. ;) ) From the context, I think that it was written for SR 1 or SR 2, but I can see no reason why it couldn't be adapted to any of the later editions. The only exceptions, I think, would occur when his/her mind was tampered with in some fashion--i.e., psychoactive drugs, sensory deprivation, or the like. --Foreigner This post has been edited by Foreigner: Nov 25 2005, 08:28 PM |
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Nov 25 2005, 08:22 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Or expose him to strong electromagnetic fields. :)
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Nov 25 2005, 09:07 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
I was under the impression that it was also an edge in the Companion.
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Nov 25 2005, 11:56 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630 |
nezumi:
You're quite right. :) I had forgotten that. (I haven't read my sourcebooks in quite awhile.) "Sense of Direction", Edge, "Shadowrun Companion", page 24. Cost: 1 Power Point. --Foreigner |
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Nov 26 2005, 05:11 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 82 Joined: 6-August 04 Member No.: 6,544 |
It's not a power point, it's a character build point. |
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Nov 26 2005, 10:47 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630 |
Oops! Sorry. Good thing I'm a player, and not a GM. I have an awful time trying to understand that part of things.... --Foreigner |
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