 good technology sites, sites to inspire and aid GMs and players |
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 Feb 25 2004, 06:15 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 348 Joined: 20-June 03 Member No.: 4,782  |
Have any good sites that are not Shadowrun but provide information on technology that would help players get more information?
I found this site on UAV's. It is a good one for modern day air drones. Gives stats on mostly all known uavs today. NASA uav website through its links, the site can lead u to this: missiles, drones, and uavs Please list any non-shadowrun tech sites that would work well with Shadowrun. |
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Feb 25 2004, 08:35 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
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Feb 25 2004, 09:14 PM
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Avatar of Mediocrity Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 725 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle, WA (err, UCAS) Member No.: 277 |
...in the Face! Through the Internet!
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Feb 25 2004, 09:23 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Yes. My arm will reach out their modem and stab them. It will go through their LAN if they have one. No firewall can block me, for I come on port -42!
~J |
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Feb 25 2004, 09:31 PM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
I see a hand, I'm turning off the modem.
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Feb 25 2004, 10:05 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
I see a hand coming out of my computer, I'm gonna shriek like a girl and grab the heaviest blunt object nearby. :grinbig:
-Siege |
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Feb 25 2004, 10:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 320 Joined: 13-August 02 From: Austin, Republic of Texas (not CAS) Member No.: 3,094 |
sissors!! use the sissors!
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Feb 25 2004, 11:18 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,213 Joined: 10-March 02 From: Back from the abyss. Member No.: 2,316 |
Buzzed a good way to find new tech is to look up the companies in SR. Boeing has some amazing stuff on the drawing boards, same for General Dynamics. Any real world company will be a great place to look.
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Feb 26 2004, 03:18 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 608 Joined: 9-July 02 From: California Member No.: 2,955 |
DARPA.
http://www.darpa.mil/body/off_programs.html Fuck, so long as I don't get injected full of too many drugs when I enlist, it's cool. But still. *shudder* |
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Feb 26 2004, 09:48 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,401 Joined: 23-February 04 From: Honolulu, HI Member No.: 6,099 |
It's not a website, and more of a general knowledge builder, but I'm finding the History Channels "Modern Marvels" series pretty interesting. Just watched 3 1 hour episodes. 1 dealing with the m-16, 1 on armor/bulletproofing and 1 on ammunition. Interesting stuff.
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Feb 26 2004, 10:44 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 56 Joined: 21-July 03 From: the Worcester Barrens Member No.: 4,997 |
i *would* recommend New Scientist, and the website of Scientific American, but you'd basically be a month behind the /. Science section, and then K (J?) would have to stab.
i'd advise trying to catch the academics in a particular field communicating with each other. but not when they're addressing bling-givers. IEEE is a good place to start for industry stuff of doom, but they guard the data with bling-requirements, afaik. ACM too. and i'd caution that DARPA, though they have the potential to be truly awesome, is thoroughly enmeshed in the Complex. they did make the current projects sound meaty and interesting through content-free blurbs, though. state the purported purpose, never state actual yield. :] of course, those ARE very nontrivial tasks they're tackling. pity they club54 their sandbox. |
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Feb 26 2004, 11:12 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
You swinging your dick? *gasp* Of cos, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt by assuming your blunt object is the largest blunt you can lay your hands on. |
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Feb 26 2004, 08:01 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
www.kurzweilai.net is an excellent website.
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Mar 3 2004, 07:03 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 2-March 04 Member No.: 6,115 |
Try http://www.metalstorm.com/ to see the future of firearms development. They already have demonstrated live fire prototypes or a 24-Barrel 96 Shot - 40mm Grenade Pod. That means there are 4 rounds in each barrel and they can choose how many rounds out of each barrel they want to fire in order to accomplish a particular mission.
They also have a video about a 100% Electronic Handgun Prototype. It has four barrels each with multiple rounds in them and each pair of barrels carries a different type of ammo. Check it out. |
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Mar 3 2004, 01:48 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Ya know, I just don't know if I should be flattered or offended. :grinbig: -Siege |
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Mar 3 2004, 01:55 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
A future, anyway. For more on the metalstorm, check this thread. [Edit]What the?! The system now auto-urls full addresses? Has it done that before? Doesn't matter much, though, since the current system is far too easy to use anyway. All us link nazis are out of work. :([/Edit] |
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