Air Pressure

[najdorf]

I just watched a stupid movie called "Jumper" and it gave me an idea which also can be used in armageddon.

In Zalanthas, dont we have physics? How come people dont explode or suffer from air pressure when they spam fly up or down? (Or do other things that i cannot mention here because of IC sensitivity.)

This can hit alot to Whirans and it is good for balance.

Did anyone ever discuss this before?

[Marauder Moe]

How come people dont explode or suffer from air pressure when they spam fly up or down?

Same reason people don't explode when skydiving?

[Ourla]

Yeah, I can't imagine a Whiran -wanting- to fly high enough to pop.  Wouldn't you stop when it started to hurt?

[Tisiphone]

People don't pop, even without any atmosphere at all. I imagine that the atmospheric ceiling of available rooms is well below the level where you might start to bend, though.


What I really want to see is accurate weather modeling for the various zones. The kadiabatic winds coming from the Shield Wall must be intense.

[Ampere]

You wouldn't explode, you would boil. Skin is elastic, so you would die and fall back to earth at terminal velocity way before it ruptured.  Oh, and I suspect the bends hurts, so you wouldn't go that high anyway, because it hurts.

Balance is a joke perpetrated by people who think life's fair.

[Jingo]

Balance is a joke perpetrated by people who think life's fair.

Uhh. No. I'm not about to play this game, or any other without it.

As for the OP's idea, I don't think realistic physics are neccessary for this game. Though I could imagine how funny the help-files would be if they were.

[Yam]

If you think people explode or boil in a vacuum, you need to learn some new physics.

[Jingo]

Out of curiousity what does happen to people in a vacuum?

Hey I found it!
http://space.about.com/cs/basics/a/bodyvacuum1.htm

[Ourla]

They'd probably pass out from oxygen deprivation before they got too high up in the air.  It would be cool to see an echo about your ears popping and then a penalty to your listen skill for a few hours. 

[Cerelum]

If they pass out they fall to the ground, it's my understanding that they mentally have to decide where they float and fly and whatnot.

So If one went to high, he would just plummet when he lost it.

JaRoD

[Synthesis]

There's something highly ironic about someone who derives their power from the elemental plane of air passing out due to oxygen deprivation.

Maybe Whirans should get a new spell:  create air.

Useful only if you manage to teleport yourself to Jihae or Lirathu, but Whirans could then be Zalanthan space cadets.

[Ampere]

If you think people explode or boil in a vacuum, you need to learn some new physics.

Boiling is the point where a liquid turns into a vapour/gas.

EDITED TO ADD: (oops, I was mostly wrong)

While your own normal blood pressure will keep your blood from boiling, the saliva in your mouth could very well begin to do so. In 1965, while performing tests at the NASA facility now known as Johnson Space Center a subject was accidentally exposed to a near vacuum (less than 1 psi) when his space suit leaked while in a vacuum chamber. He did not pass out for about 14 seconds, by which time unoxygenated blood had reached his brain. Technicians began to repressurize the chamber within 15 seconds and he regained consciousness at around the equivalent of 15,000 feet of altitude. He later said that his last conscious memory was of the water on his tongue beginning to boil.

[Synthesis]

If you think people explode or boil in a vacuum, you need to learn some new physics.

Boiling is the point where a liquid turns into a vapour/gas.

Technically I think it's the point where the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the surrounding atmospheric pressure.

[Tisiphone]

If you think people explode or boil in a vacuum, you need to learn some new physics.

Boiling is the point where a liquid turns into a vapour/gas.

Technically I think it's the point where the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the surrounding atmospheric pressure.

We have a winner.

[Thunkkin]

I just look for bubbles.

Then I add the macaroni.

[Synthesis]

I just look for bubbles.

Then I add the macaroni.

Under the right high-pressure atmospheric conditions, you can cook your macaroni without even seeing the bubbles.  Science!

[Thunkkin]

I just look for bubbles.

Then I add the macaroni.

Under the right high-pressure atmospheric conditions, you can cook your macaroni without even seeing the bubbles.  Science!

I actually heard about this on NPR.  Science = hurrah!  Macaroni = WIN!

[Tisiphone]

Under the right high-pressure atmospheric conditions, you can cook your macaroni without even seeing the bubbles.  Science!

Like a pressure cooker!

[musashi]

This thread delievers. 

[Searanox]

Hahaha 

[Xagon]

Out of curiousity what does happen to people in a vacuum?

Hey I found it!
http://space.about.com/cs/basics/a/bodyvacuum1.htm

Aww, I almost got excited and thought that was a video.
Then again I got excited when I peed on my first elf.

[Kevo]

..... a stupid movie called "Jumper"......

This is the most scientifically accurate statement in this topic.

[Malifaxis]

My mind is still blown by Tisiphone's use of the word 'kadiabatic.'

How the fuck do you do that?  Seriously.

[Potaje]

Speaking of echos, I would like to see the echo of someone falling from the sky, or their skin flakes drifting down like feathers. Or a boiled mass descends from the sky.

[RogueGunslinger]

My mind is still blown by Tisiphone's use of the word 'kadiabatic.'

How the fuck do you do that?  Seriously.

I believe that was a typo. I think she meant to say adiabatic. Kadiabatic doesn't mean anything(as far as I know, 'cause Tisi damn well has a larger vocabulary than I.)

[Ghost]

I think silt flyers should get totally stoned in the zalanthan atmosphere

[Tisiphone]

I believe that was a typo. I think she meant to say adiabatic. Kadiabatic doesn't mean anything(as far as I know, 'cause Tisi damn well has a larger vocabulary than I.)

No, adiabatic is something different.

Kadiabatic is more commonly known as katabatic, it seems. Colour me surprised; I could have sworn kadiabatic was the more common spelling. The scientists usually like to take the poetic forms, but I guess most didn't in this case.

I always remember it because of the beginning of the Plato's Republic.

[brytta.leofa]

"Kadiabatic" refers to elements of High Zalanthan Fashion that do not change over time.  White, for instance, is always in style.

[Zoan]

I know it's been said, but god you're a nerd, Tizzie. *adores*

[Yam]

I believe that was a typo. I think she meant to say adiabatic. Kadiabatic doesn't mean anything(as far as I know, 'cause Tisi damn well has a larger vocabulary than I.)

No, adiabatic is something different.

Kadiabatic is more commonly known as katabatic, it seems. Colour me surprised; I could have sworn kadiabatic was the more common spelling. The scientists usually like to take the poetic forms, but I guess most didn't in this case.

I always remember it because of the beginning of the Plato's Republic.

I see kadiabatic more often than katabatic.