On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:11:38 GMT, throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Wayne Throop)
wrote:
>: Wildepad <noreplies>
>: I think the natural course would be to first check a major news outlet
>: like CNN or Fox because that would let you know how widespread the
>: problem is. Once you read what's there, you check another one to see
>: if it has more timely or in-depth information, and then you go to
>: another one, etc..
>:
>: Then you start checking blogs, newsgroups, or whatever you think might
>: give you up-to-the-minute info or let you know who else is awake.
>:
>: Forty-five minutes later, you look up and find someone else who was in
>: the room with you is standing there waiting for their turn on the
>: machine.
>
>Ah, I see. However... note that the first person out of the room
>will open the door to the faraday cage. (There's no faraday airlock,
>is there?) Would that reset the wakup timers on the others in the room?
>So possibly, the first person out is going to be the only person for
>an additional 12 hours.
I suspect there's some method generally used if for no other reason
than you can't predict when someone will open the door while the
machine is in use.
>Would the foil-heagear crowd still be awake? (Given the scientific
>studies of how foil headgear protects against the orbital mind
>control broadcasts, probably not... but it reinforces the point that
>the faraday cage has to be pretty good.)
It would be great if they were unaffected, but I don't see that
getting into this story.
>Oh... and is there anybody in Cheyenne Mountain, and what are they doing?
>Quite possibly people sleep there. And presumably would wake up
normally.
There are probably hundreds of military sites across the country where
the staff won't be affected. The question is, what can they do?
There's no obvious enemy to shoot, and I can't see them blindly
accepting the reports from overseas that people will wake up if you
put them inside a Faraday cage. Even if they did, venturing out of the
base would require a very high level decision, and those are usually
quite conservative.
>And of course allomancers burning pewter would still be awake. You can
>run at superhuman speeds for hours or days on end, and remain alert at
>rest much longer, if you're burning pewter. Similarly for a
feruchemist's
>bronze metalmind. Of course, allomancy and feruchemy are fairly rare,
>so those possibilities can probably be ignored.
>
>But I digress.
:)
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