| From: | Paul Gettle <pgettle@********.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Skateboard mishaps (wuz: rollerblades) |
| Date: | Sat, 9 May 1998 10:31:43 -0400 |
Sometime last night I wrote:
>>So, what do you all think, are skim-boards just a silly idea, or is
>>there some merit to the concept?
At 03:48 AM 5/9/98 -0500, Tony replied:
>Reminds me of the boards used in Back to the Future II, or even,
heaven
>forbid, Highlander II; still a bit beyond current SR tech levels, at
>least for me.
And
At 11:16 PM 5/8/98 -0400, MC23 replied:
>Too glitz for me. As far as it fitting into the Shadowrun World
genre,
>I'm not sure. I always felt like they stayed away that type of tech.
Of
>course a whiz gang could make their own so to speak.
I've never seen Highlander II (and I don't want to start now. If the
movie's motto was "There can be only one," why'd they make two
sequels?) so I don't know what the boards are like in that movie, but
if they're like the Hoverboards in Back to the Future II, in that they
apear to operate off of magnetics or anti-grav, or some other
invisible means of support, then I would have to agree with you.
Anti-grav is beyond the scope of SR.
However, my 'skimboards' are based the concept of air cushion
vehicles. We've had ACVs since the middle of _this_ century, and there
are FASA published rules for Air Cushion Drones on the scale needed to
make something a person could ride on.
What might have mislead people was the phrase 'ground effect' in my
previous post, since that's not too common a term. Ground effect IIRC,
refers to a feature of certain airfoils to operate at a high effiency
at very low altitudes because the airfoil's close proximity to the
ground creates a 'wind tunnel' effect.
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