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Target  Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 4-June 04 From: UP of Michigan - Laurium/Houghton Member No.: 6,377  |
I am a scuba junkie. I dive at every available opportunity. As a matter of fact the single biggest conflict with our ShadowRunning is my diving.
That aside... I would gladly pay a heck of a lot more for a scuba tank if it could fill itself - No compressor needed. The compressor is built into the valve. Obviously this wouldn't work for anything but air... i.e. no nitrox, no trimix, no pure oxygen for decompression. As the gear descriptions are pretty minimalistic in some cases, and the state of the art in many things, is quite a bit beyond 2004, it may not be unreasonable to belive a 2063 scuba tank can fill itself without an external compressor. Taking this one step further, to make an exotic diving gas - nitrox, trimix, O2, etc. One would only have to connect the tanks valve to the cylinder holding the gas. There could be a nice friendly user interface allowing you to select a breathing mixture and a prompt to let you know when to change source cylinders. Granted :nuyen: 3000 would be a bit much. In today dollars, that would buy a whole compressor, a few cascade bottles, and a couple of tanks to dive with. Just thought I would post an alternative notion... --Dave |
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Jul 19 2004, 04:59 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
Hmm....
Cost for a SCUBA tank: 3000 Cost for a friendly mage to quicken a force 1 oxygenate spell to you: ~5250 Cybergill: 12500 and .75 essense SCUBA is still the cheapest and the most limited of the three. |
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Jul 19 2004, 05:24 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 13-January 04 Member No.: 5,975 |
Rent it....but buy some insurance... Naaa...Forget the insurance, Shadowrunners would take the tanks back anyway! |
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Jul 20 2004, 01:07 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
Ouch, gusty but needlessly painful to the runners. I changed company's recently and I had to take 4 weeks to learn the new products and systems, That's with my experience and licences. It would have been better for them to have one person/contact well trained in this to cover the technical stuff while the rest talk in broad terms, mutual funds work best for this, since you can paddle more BS than get hung up in the details. If people want I can start a thread on this rather than hijack this thread further. |
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Jul 20 2004, 01:17 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
If there was a multiplayer mode for Capitalism (the old computer game), I'd challenge you to a game. :)
~J |
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Jul 20 2004, 04:05 AM
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Senior GM Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,406 Joined: 12-April 03 From: Redmond, WA Member No.: 4,442 |
I have no reason to discuss finance / economics / markets on these boards. Nice to hear from a trained person, though. See you around.
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Jul 20 2004, 11:43 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
Sorry, I play ith other people's money. Actually i'm told I'm very good explaining stuff to people who don't have a clue. Go figure. |
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Jul 21 2004, 03:49 AM
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Senior GM Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,406 Joined: 12-April 03 From: Redmond, WA Member No.: 4,442 |
It is said that new Brokers generally lose their clients a million dollars before they get the hang of it. I have obviously found several new Brokers since I first invested in 1978.
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Jul 21 2004, 04:08 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
You've lost several million dollars?
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Jul 21 2004, 04:17 AM
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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 |
Who hasn't?
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Jul 21 2004, 05:23 AM
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UMS O.G. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 444 Joined: 18-May 04 Member No.: 6,335 |
Wow, when I started this thread I was thinking "typo", not flame war. Actually now i'm thinking vast conspiricy. Great Dragon ATGM missile? 1000 :nuyen: Scuba tank? 3000 :nuyen: What's under the ocean they don't want us to see? Things that make you go HMMMM.
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