<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like... --> <!--X-From-R13: "Qnyvona Fverfvnf Rnexybpx" <pnyvonaNqnexybpx.pbz> --> <!--X-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:14:01 -0800 --> <!--X-Message-Id: 004001be0d97$4a03ac10$55e5edd0@dev-18.chilisoft.com --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, [MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg00817.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00819.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00810.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00819.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00818">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00818">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00818">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: "Caliban Tiresias Darklock" <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:17:52 -0800</LI> <LI><em>Reply-To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> -----Original Message----- From: Ling <K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu <mud-dev#kanga,nu> Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 6:08 AM Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like... >On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Hal Black wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:27:20PM -0800, quzah [sotfhome] wrote: > >> cornstarch(s) + water(l) -----------------> "goop" (sometimes solid, >> sometimes liquid) >> Try making some "goop" at home. Get some cornstarch and mix in some water, >> when you squeeze it it feels solid. If you leave it alone, it turns to a >> runny liquid. Neat stuff. 8') > >Sounds like silicon putty. Details are something like: Leave it alone and >it'll form into a ball, place it on a slope and it'll run like a liquid, >hit it with a hammer and it'll shatter. See "oobleck" in the Jargon file or the Hacker's Dictionary. It might be amusing to call this sort of physics driver a quantum bogodynamics engine. ;) </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00817.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00819.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00810.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00819.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00818"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00818"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> <ul><li>Thread context: <BLOCKQUOTE><UL> <LI><STRONG>[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <LI><strong><A NAME="00821" HREF="msg00821.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Thu 12 Nov 1998, 02:32 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00822" HREF="msg00822.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 12 Nov 1998, 04:52 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00823" HREF="msg00823.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Adam J. Thornton <a href="mailto:adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU">adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU</a>, Thu 12 Nov 1998, 05:29 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </ul> </ul> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="00810" HREF="msg00810.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, quzah [sotfhome] <a href="mailto:quzah#softhome,net">quzah#softhome,net</a>, Tue 10 Nov 1998, 22:50 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00818" HREF="msg00818.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Wed 11 Nov 1998, 17:14 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00819" HREF="msg00819.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, JavaAl <a href="mailto:JavaAl#aol,com">JavaAl#aol,com</a>, Wed 11 Nov 1998, 18:12 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00824" HREF="msg00824.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, quzah [sotfhome] <a href="mailto:quzah#softhome,net">quzah#softhome,net</a>, Thu 12 Nov 1998, 06:24 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00825" HREF="msg00825.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 12 Nov 1998, 06:47 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00831" HREF="msg00831.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...</A></strong>, Hal Black <a href="mailto:hal#moos,ml.org">hal#moos,ml.org</a>, Thu 12 Nov 1998, 15:33 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </ul> </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>