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Lord British To Conduct Experiments On ISS
CR0WTR0B0T writes "Richard Garriott, AKA Lord British, will be part of three experiments on the International Space Station. 'Garriott has a ticket to the space station because he is an orbital spaceflight client of Space Adventures, the only company that provides commercial human space missions ... Garriott will be the first person in space who has had photorefractive keratectomy eye surgery. NASA has approved the PRK procedure for astronauts but has not yet been able to test its effects. Garriott will help scientists figure out if visual acuity of a PRK patient changes in orbit as inner eye pressure increases by up to 50% during space flights.' Mostly, NASA wants to know if he can heal himself or provide resurrection to the other astronauts in case the experiments goes awry."
Mostly, NASA wants to know if he can heal himself or provide resurrection to the other astronauts in case the experiments goes awry.
Damn you for not providing more information! How can he provide resurrection in space: the d20s will float away! Will they provide slighty magnetized dice and a ferrous gameboard? Velcro-covered dice and playing field? Dice in a centrifuge?
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time article
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1844160,00.html
wired article
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-09/ff_starcity
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Ever since that day, British has been scarred, forever trying to get as far away from Rainz as possible.
Well, I beleive he will cast a Greater Heal, chanting "In Vas Mani", poke his eye, followed by the heal sound. At that point, he will most likely turn to the rest of the people on the ISS and PK them. They are most likely dexers, so he will have to make sure to keep Reflective Armor up, and just pick his combos well. Do you think he will look for the Star Room and mark a rune so he doesn't have to screw with flying there, and just recall back next time? *shrugs* Not sure. Can you mark in the ISS?
When asked why he wanted to go into space, Richard explained he wanted to "experience more!"
Most critics, however, doubt he will be able to destroy 20 enemy vessels in a single mission.
This is just a desperate attempt by Lord British to 8x8 his way to full Magic Resist.
-- I really need to bleed off some of this
ISS Vision Testing Procedure:
"Can you see me now? Good!"
I think it would be more interesting to see Don Shamino try some zero-gee rapier combat. Pity he can't take Don Tivar up with him.
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I remember wanting to be Lord British when I was in my early teens... Now I want to be him again.
This guy leads a pretty charmed life, IMHO.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
When I hear Lord British and Space, it reminds me of the earlier Ultima games...
:).
Man I'm old...
Soon you'll be old just because you know who Lord British is
He'll just need to cast a TYM POR to prevent anything bad from happening in the first place!
NASA wants to know if he can heal himself or provide resurrection to the other astronauts in case the experiments goes awry.
So... he'll be testing a gray direct healing disc. (It's all he can buy from a vendor; he might get a better one as a reward after he completes the mission, but not before.) He'll need at least three pumps in tools skill to be able to use it to resurrect someone, though.
I doubt they'll let him pack a suit of bio armor; that would be way over the 300 g personal item mass limit.
-- Lanster
Mostly, NASA wants to know if he can heal himself
VAS MANI
or provide resurrection to the other astronauts in case the experiments goes awry.
IN MANI CORP
Fortunately, LB is level 8.
...as long as EA doesn't assimilate NASA, shift non-NASA developers onto the ISS project, drastically increase the production cycle, overwork the astronauts and launch the shuttle way before it's ready. You can't patch in space.
is to see if if Tabula Rasa subscriptions rise.
Guess he's already earned his Space-Ace title.
Hurts like a bitch for a week, and takes about 2 weeks for your vision to clear, but works great for those of us who are, for some reason or another, bad candidates for LASIK.
I wish I'd done it sooner.
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
If there's a gold plaque installed over any doorways in the ISS, he's DOOMED!
There you have it; more REAL science from the ISS.
Day 1:
I put on my robe and wizard hat...
*sigh* Byebye karma. Time to play Ultima until this blows over!
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
Basically, he'll be reading an eyechart? Man, that's some cutting edge science. Perhaps he can also read a book, or try to see something in the distance.
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See if he can use An Nox to cure space sickness and the inevitable food poisoning!
Asteroid impact coming? Grav Por, baby!
Lights go out on the ISS? Vas Lor FTW!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Whoosh, retard.
I was hoping he would travel time, then fly to Pluto, pick up a Phaser, then go back in time and chill with Minax. .. but that's just me.
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He might exit the station without landing or even worse, use the skull.
"She must be at 9, 9, 9!"
Not really, Lord British makes computer games not board games, so the only retard is yourself..
* We'd still be playing Madden '76.
* 2% of players would die.
* I'd have to read a Slashdot article every three days about them. ("Yesterday, a NASA mission was a stunning success, succeeding in passing a ball from one player to the same player's other hand. This pathbreaking research suggests a future in which it is possible to conceive of players possibly passing the ball to each other. Someday. The mission was a bargain at $325 million and accomplished in a record-breaking 18 months, improvements over the $400 million and 51 months required to develop a simulated hand capable of gripping a football.")
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
An Corp!
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