Re: superhero space navigation

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:31:27 -0700, Leonard Erickson <shadow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| Yeah, and the character is stuck with *cheap* off the shelf stuff
| until they hook up with some gadgeteer types at the school for
| supers/mutants/etc they'll wind up at. (Whateley Academy if you are
| familiar with that "shared universe")
|
| And even there, the character will be trying to hide the extent of
| their abilities umntil they get caught out (a matter of trying to use
| some video from a digital camera for a project and one of the folks
| helping realizing that there *isn't* any probe that headed to that
| part of the moon. Oops :-)
|
|
|>[*] http://www.armscontrol.org/documents/mtcr.asp
|
| Just for the heck of it, here's what will probably be the intro
| section:
|
| "Ding!"
|
| The bored radar tech looked at the display to see what the automated
| system was upset about this time. One glance and his boredom vanished.
|
| "Holy ***!"
|
| He slapped a large red button on the console and as a klaxon sounded,
| he spoke rapidly into his mike.
|
| "Security alert! Our mystery bogie is back.."


Check out a book called "Lifter" by Crawford Kilian. A high school kid
figures out how to levitate (and how to teach anyone to do it). He has a
run in with the local airforce base during some of his private practice
runs.


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