Originally posted by Adyna
Originally posted by Seytra
I just read the web edition and I found several grave mistakes in the first article, and also one in the last one, all of which seem to hint at a severe lack of historical background knowledge.
I\'m sorry but your reply shows a distinct lack of scientific knowlwdge. If someone told you the world was flat you would no doubt believe them.
This is really nice.
In fact, I find it hilarious!
You see, I was thinking \"Oh, Adyna probably just didn\'t bother to read up on PS, oh, well, maybe the info wasn\'t found easily enough...\" heh, but here you go, not just completely disregarding all of my pointers, but also, on a grand scale, proposing that not only minor details of the official background might be scientifically incorrect, but that the entire thing is only some sort of collection of ideas that anyone can change and ignore as they please!
You see, this sheds quite a bad light on you, not necessarily as a person (you may well think all stories and RP rules are just BS), but as someone who pretends to be a roleplayer. You see, roleplaying doesn\'t mean you\'re free to do as you please. In fact, it means that you stick to the setting that you are in, and very closely. Yes, I know, the idea \"My char arived from some other world\", or \"it\'s a god\" or whatever, which is disturbingly popular in PS for some strange reason, already indicates bad RP, but I was not going to bring that back up yet again; alas, it fits in quite neatly with your complete, and obviously intentional, disregard for the background of PS, and the rulemakers. Thank you for showing this so clearly, so that I know I need to avoid even trying to RP with you! :tup:
Originally posted by Adyna
When playing Planeshift look up - the sky is blue, ask yourself why that sky is blue. Look around you, admittingly there are a distinct lack of flowers but the grass is green and so are the trees. Ask yourself would these be green without ultra violet - or very little ultra-violet light as you are suggesting. How does photosynthesis take place?
Well, you know that photosynthesis doesn\'t even use ultraviolet light? Did you also know that plants use the red and the blue parts of the spectrum, and that this is the reason why they are green - they don\'t completely absorb the green part? So, quite obviously, it is no problem for plants to exist without ultraviolet light.
Furthermore, the fact that the sky is blue simply means that the spectrum is at most shifted from ultraviolet to blue, which still is well within the photosynthetic spectrum of plants.
The absence of UV light, assuming it is complete, will simply mean that people won\'t become tanned by Yliakum\'s sun.
So it is quite clear to me that the absence of UV light does not prevent plants from being green, nor the sky from being blue. In fact, if photosynthesis depended solely on UV light, the plants would not need to absorb any visible light, and thus they would be white and probably even close to clear.
Edit: see
this page for an absorption spectrum. It shows that absorption of EM radiation with short wavelengths (UV) is quite minor in comparison with the remaining visible spectrum, proving that UV light is far from being a necessity for plant growth.
Originally posted by Adyna
I believe the historical background knowledge is given to us not as law - but as a starting point to build on.
Yes... to build upon, not to completely disregard it. That\'s a huge difference, you know?
@ Draklar: Yes, but that\'d be about as much \"astronomy\" as it can ever get... Also, Yliakums people
know that they are underground, and they also know that there is this giant crystal column conducting light from the surface. There are also stories from the first settlers who came from the surface, or the surface of some other planet. They may have been diluted over the hundreds of years, but nevertheless they won\'t be completely lost.
As for the interpretation of Laanx and Talad:
I said there isn\'t any clear distinction. And Laanx might be chaotic, but OTOH, she gave inflexible laws to her people. Now this may be chaotic, but may not. And in fact, neither of them are wise, or have been. Talad was unlucky in that his little ego-boost created such a mess, but both were equally ignorant and stupid to attempt it in the first place.
