8:12 AM Mr. Silver
How's the zombie virus Mr. Gray?
8:12 AM Mr. Gray
Ugh
Still not 100% but I'm here.
8:13 AM Mr. Silver
Always thirsty? Shambling gait? Muscles stiff? Starving for something but just not sure what it is yet?
8:14 AM Mr. Gray
No....more like The Exorcist.
8:16 AM Mr. Silver
"I'll need an old antibiotic and a young antibiotic."
Oh. Well that's less contagious at least. Just want to stay in bed, feeling of levitation, pea soup barfing and swearing a lot?
8:17 AM Mr. Gray
That about covers it.
8:18 AM Mr. Silver
Not to, you know, type over you like you aren't here...but how many of you are inside Mr. Gray right now?
8:19 AM Mr. Gray
It does feel like someone else is crawling around in there....beyond that can't say.
8:20 AM Mr. Brown
Oh God! I know! A facehugger got him!
Get ready for the alien hatching. I have a sharp implement ready.
8:20 AM Mr. Gray
THAT is how I felt! I even posted it.
9:28 AM Mr. Silver
So Mr. Brown...”Finding Bigfoot”. I don't think I ever got to tell you the family "Bigfoot Call" experiment.
9:28 AM Mr. Brown
Nope.
9:31 AM Mr. Silver
We were watching the show and during a pause, Mrs. Silver said: "OK Junior, don't scream really loud or anything, but let's hear your best Bigfoot call...wait...let's skip that since you still have a sore throat...it'll probably hurt."
Me "I'll have a go at that. Everyone ready?"
(they nod)
Me "Ok...here we go. (cup hands around mouth...breath deep a couple times) Iiiiiiiiii'm a BIGFOOT! Iiiiiiiiiii have BIG FEET!"
This and "Yooooo hooooo!" are still running gags at home.
9:34 AM Mr. Brown
LOL
You should have yelled “BIGFOOT CALLLLL!!!!!”
9:36 AM Mr. Brown
I watched the new Star Trek last night again.
I still like the idea of an alternate timeline.
9:37 AM Mr. Silver
I considered watching it, but I didn't want to invest the time versus other stuff.
So...you had a romantic Valentine's evening with “New Kirk”?
"Quiet woman! I paid attention to you earlier. This is STAR TREK."
9:38 AM Mr. Brown
LOL
She was working; I was at home alone.
11:08 AM Mr. Brown
So this article explains that “Mothman” comes from a type of moth that ate from a plant used as happy drugs for the natives. Jimsonweed. LOL
11:09 AM Mr. Blue
A nerdy teen was bitten by a radioactive moth.
11:09 AM Mr. Brown
LOL
11:12 AM Mr. Silver
"Picture #2 depicts a headless Greek harpy with glowing red nipples...is there a possible connection?"
11:13 AM Mr. Blue
It looks an awful lot like an owl to me.
11:23 AM Mr. Brown
“Hmm. Ever since we put that statue up we have been getting sightings calls.”
11:27 AM Mr. Silver
"The Iroquois name, interestingly, seems to come out as 'A squatch that has wings, I guess'."
1:46 PM Mr. Brown
1:48 PM Mr. Silver
My! What extremely Earthling English-phonetical-sense "alien" names for things.
1:57 PM Mr. Brown
Mr. Silver, what would happen to a human living on a planet with 5% more gravity?
Get stronger, or just denser?
2:01 PM Mr. Silver
Both, but it wouldn't be apparent to him until he came home.
2:02 PM Mr. Brown
So if you came back to regular gravity here on Earth, you could probably pick up a car.
LOL
2:02 PM Mr. Blue
What about 50% more gravity?
5% more gravity wouldn't do much to someone's strength. It would basically make them 5% stronger, I’d imagine.
2:04 PM Mr. Silver
I can tell you from game design experience that reasonable numbers are a lot harder to figure out for that than you might expect.
2:07 PM Mr. Silver
Say you could lift 100lbs.
You go to Mr. Brown's planet and you get used to the place, and eventually get the same feeling lifting 105 lbs as you did on Earth lifting 100.
Then you go home, and the gravity is 5% less than what you got used to.
And you lift 100 lbs...
It will feel like...
99.75 lbs!
Would you even notice?
Hey, it's 5% less than the 105 you were used to!
To you 100 lbs now feels 5.25 lbs lighter with the same weight marked on it!
It's not much...
Okay, maybe a smidgen...
Eh...
2:11 PM Mr. Blue
I wouldn't notice
5 lbs is no thing
*nothing
2:13 PM Mr. Silver
It ain't no thang.
2:14 PM Mr. Brown
But a 5 pound thang.
2:19 PM Mr. Blue
OK, anyway...
Let's say you can bench press 100 lbs. before you leave. You go to this planet for a while, come back. I think your bench-pressing muscles probably aren't going to be able to lift much more than before, because your chest & triceps aren't going to be affected much (if at all) by gravity. It would mostly be your legs & core, I would imagine, unless we're assuming that you'll be doing some kind of weight training thing on this planet.
2:23 PM Mr. Silver
Well, my model implied continuing lifting exercises to get back to "normal".
2:24 PM Mr. Brown
I would do it as just pushups and sit ups. Running and squats. No weights, just body weight.
2:30 PM Mr. Silver
What kind of space colonist are you?
No weights?!?
Why do you think NASA included them, you slacker?
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