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Legendary fact
Topic Started: Nov 3 2011, 10:53 AM (98 Views)
Andrul
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Legends have always held that the Vikings had a magic stone that allowed them to navigate by the sun even on cloudy days and even after the sun had recently set.

Scientists have found one.
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Benevolance
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ODP linked me onto this yesterday. We were discussing how much cooler these were than magentic compasses. As I pointed out, if someone boards your ship, you can hit him with the sunstone. But just try intimidating someone with a compass.
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Andrul
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When I was a kid I had a compass my father had recovered from a sunken ship. Sucker was set in a 10" diameter metal base with a heavy crystal top encasing the wheel in mineral spirits. Weighed a few pounds. I guarantee someone would notice getting hit by it :D
Edited by Andrul, Nov 3 2011, 12:24 PM.
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Kishi
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I've been threatened with a compass once before, but that was in geometry class in 10th grade.
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Andrul
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Did your teacher finally get the point across to you?
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I must take a trip to Iceland and find one of these. When the satellites go down, I'm going full pirate on the high seas. I just don't feel right about being a pirate with GPS available.

ODP is still around? If he's gaming, he better get over here and keep us up to date.
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Benevolance
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Don't think his new work lets him access message boards, so he's migrated to Google +. That's where I'm keeping in touch with him.
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lgm
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I will have one of these navigation crystals and will go on a grand adventure using it to navigate my way to find all the missing gamers. There will be great hijinks and adventure as I find the long lost online forum gamers. In the final voyage, I will get utterly lost only to discover Lance and Kishi in the woods waiting at a game table for us (one of you will be dead from a recent duel).
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Andrul
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"Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"
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