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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
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
...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.
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!
Basically, he'll be reading an eyechart?
No. He'll be reading an eyechart... in spaaaaaaaaaaace!
POR ORT WIS!
Ha! Wizard Eye!
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.