Recent content by Dearnen

Nice! He designed an atomic locomotive that is powerful cool! Looks like he had a real thing for space guppies and rocket zeppelins, too.

I spent hours looking through all the cool kitbashed models on the forums at http://www.whatifmodelers.com/ Planes, ships, tanks...awesome stuff. We may have the cool timelines, maps, and flags, but these guys are building the hardware that makes it possible, lol. I also gazed upon this...

Just my luck: I'll probably find the girl of my dreams just before that chunk of space rock blasts out the Oregon Sea. Dearnen to St. Peter: Can I see someone about the matter of Bad Timing?

Not that I wish to see the two shows mixed, but I think a Stargate type scenario might be behind the BSG story. Perhaps Kobol was a world where humans from Earth were taken by aliens. From there, the humans eventually colonized the 12 worlds, and with the passage of time history was confused...

The Coriolis force is what drives the winds the same direction, actually. As the winds shift to the north or south (as per their hemisphere) they shift to opposite directions (north vs. south). I think Euio's diagrams will clarify what I'm trying to say. A quick Google Images search for...

If the planet rotates the opposite direction, that simply puts north at the bottom of the map. In fact, one could say that it doesn't really rotate in the opposite direction, but the map makers have merely given the south pole the primacy that we give the north pole. Consider the direction of...

Both games are great, but which you prefer will depend on your cup of tea. They are very different from each other and the other Paradox games. CK has you managing a dynasty, and so long as your heir has the same last name, the game continues on (unless you're conquered). It's not difficult...

I certainly agree with you on that one.

Thank you for the correction regarding human rights. I had forgotten that they developed in Buddhist teaching as well. I am no expert on Buddhist thinking, so I can't really compare their thoughts on human rights to those of the West. As for the sciences, Greek philosophy definitely played a...

Without Judeo-Christian values, one has to wonder whether human rights and modern science would develop as they have. The rise of the concept of human rights was rooted in the Christian concept that individual people have value in the eyes of God. Likewise, science developed from the Biblical...

Israel = Struggles/wrestles with God Palestine = Land of the Philistines Puerto Rico = Rich Port

One thing to note about the original map at Strange Maps is that the map does not depict the dominant faith in each county, but the Christian denomination with the largest number of congregations. This is somewhat misleading in that a minority denomination may have more congregations than the...

Very nice map, Thrashing Mad.

Hmm... Just the other day my mom wondered why I hadn't read 1984. Then, the very next day, my dad asked if I'd ever read Animal Farm. And now...I get this feeling I should read them. :eek:

While the recent Deus Vult upgrade has improved some of those things quite a bit, there are still some oddities. Before I got the upgrade, though, I experienced very similar stuff. When my first game ended, all of North Africa was Catholic, while Italy, the Rhone valley, and Bohemia were...