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They're gigantic for dogs, which still makes them much smaller than goblins. Also, the goblin probably had military skills. Size+skills>numbers when the numbers side only has one more.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 29, 2012, 08:25:22 pm

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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 25, 2012, 08:25:45 pm

Again, why should quantum-level events have no effect ever on macroscopic ones?

Macroscopic objects are surrounded by too much EM noise and heat. So quantum decoherence occurs.

And this somehow stops the weirdness happening at the quantum level from being detected and transformed into a macroscopic event?

It stops the weirdness from happening to large things, and stops the weirdness from compounding. Thermodynamically irreversible processes lock in the state of a quantum particle much like observation does.

And this is why I like the many-universes interpretation--it doesn't try to hide itself with weird phenomena just to hide itself.

The thing I don't like about many-universes is that I feel it doesn't really explain anything. It seems to me like saying "Yeah, there's weirdness. But don't worry about it; it's another universe's problem."

It also leads to annoyingly cliche sci-fi...

The way I see it, it also helps explain why our universe's laws allow life to exist: There were a bunch at first, but the laws settled down, differently in different universes. Oh, and it doesn't seem to be trying to hide itself as much.

Sounds fun! I'll take a turn as GreatWyrmSilver, architect if one comes quickly or smith if one doesn't.

Holy carp, remind me never to piss off an elf.

Lucius [2] sorta tugs on the one's arm ineffectively. Darwuf, with help from his rival Urist, manifests but gets tugged away by Armok. [6-1] The one promptly returns arm-rip with arm-rip. Oh, my...shouldn't this hurt more?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 30, 2012, 03:17:20 pm

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Just get some extremofiles.

Another problem might be if it is ethical to deploy these lifeforms on Mars. We might be destroying an entire ecosystem. We might kill the first extraterrestial live we ever meet.

Every survey and probe and robot has shown that there is no life on Mars bigger than a bacterium. Currently.

And since when are bacteria not important.

But since when do they need to be accounted for in moral decisions.
Besides, they could well infect us with something.

I don't care, just PM me when it's my turn.

@GreatWyrmGold You could just plot railroad him back into the city. Downed chopper or something, either on his way out, or he gets assigned to a recon flyover. Then his plot thread could converge with the civi survivors.

Oh, I have my own plans for Phillip...maybe in a turn (the three-hour ones, not the one-action ones) you'll be able to control him...