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From: Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Radiation and Magic
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 01:42:18 -0400
>> I wrote:
>> Last I heard, cosmic rays are _protons_ moving near the speed of light.

Mongoose wrote:
> To bring this back on topic, how does that affect the discusion I was
> apllyng them to? That being, radition in space is diffrent enough to be
> the cause of "space madness" for mages, and terrestrial radiation might
> be responsible for similar effects in fovae and also realted to
> background count?

You could probably do this in your campaign, but I like FASA's balloon in a
vacuum idea better. Background count is pretty well defined to be the
result of continue and/or massive ennui/joy in an area, which puts it
pretty firmly in the territory of emotional "radiation", not real
radioactivity.

Wordman

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