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Gregory.Gadow wrote:

chaos and evil

Try these[^] then.

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[HimanshuJoshi]

Gregory.Gadow wrote:

My understanding is thath, i Yuga means "the time of Kali"

And that started when Lord Krishna left earth around 5000 years ago according to Vishnu-purana. It means dark times when sins such as lying, cheating is more common. Kali represents the all the evil that is in earth.

Gregory.Gadow wrote:

Anyway, religious names are commonly used for such things, and borrowings from Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions - Apophis, Nemesis and so on - have been pretty overused.

I know that these things have been borrowed from religions and traditions, but my point is that if you really don't want to piss any religion, then use made up words.

[HimanshuJoshi]

Those won't be historically accurate, since they are daemons which affect Sun and Moon and cause Eclipses according to hindu mythology. So if you are going for something matching along the lines of hindu mythologic accuracy, I suggest you to stick to Kali or Kali yuga.

[Dalek Dave]

Or he could use Sutekh, Ancient Egyptian God of Deserts and Storms, very apt. And not too many ancient egyptians around these days.

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[HimanshuJoshi]

yeah and if any of them are here all of them would be busy partying off their new found freedom.

[Dalek Dave]

They couldn't afford to party, they all lost their money on an illegal pyramid scheme!

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[Gregory Gadow]

That will be helpful, thanks!

[Soulus83]

Remember what happened at Tunguska!!! ;P

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--either way, you are right." — Henry Ford

[Dalek Dave]

Mulder nearly died!

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[Dalek Dave]

Why the colons?

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[AspDotNetDev]

Because Ur:anus has a colon?

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[Dalek Dave]

Oh dear! 5!

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[GenJerDan]

HimanshuJoshi wrote:

Invent some names that sounds like science fiction, not mythology.

Better yet, have the UN hold a 50/50 lottery. $10 and you can put in your entry for the name. Then have the winning entry be something ridiculously inappropriate.

There is water at the bottom of the ocean. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

Kali, with both syllables short is the demon, of Kali Yug infamy; Kali, phonetically Kaa-lee, is the name of the goddess. They are rendered differently in Devanagari, transliteration into English is a pain.

Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:

[Gregory Gadow]

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

They are rendered differently in Devanagari, transliteration into English is a pain.

Which is why I used Ka:li: for the goddess; I didn't think that the macrons would render properly :)

[coolestCoder]

+5 for your history :)

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[Roger Wright]

As much as I enjoy Bruce's performances (the Die Hard series never gets old for me), if the movie version includes the lady with red hair from the 5th Element movie, I'll pay real money to see it. Of course, I'll pay a lot more for a private audience...

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[Roger Wright]

Have you considered looking in the General Indian Topics forum? Chris, et all, built that space in part, to assist our Indian members in developing their storytelling skills in the English language without the harsh criticism found in the open forums. You being a storyteller, that might be a good place to look for ideas and technical assistance. Just a thought... :)

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[Dan Neely]

Even at a very oblique angle a big rock is going to make it down intact http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=100&diam=10000&pdens=1500&pdens_select=0&vel=17&theta=1&tdens=1000&tdens_select=1000[^] Even with porus rock a 10km impactor is going to deliver 20,000,000 megatons. With something that big the only thing an extremely low inclination will do is to enlarge the scorch zone as it enters the atmosphere.

3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

[Gregory Gadow]

That will be very helpful in figuring things out, thanks! As I put in the OP, though, the asteroid breaks up when it hits the atmosphere and most of it ricochets back out into space; what actually impacts is a much smaller (but still sizeable) fragment. From what you and Dave (thank you too) have said, I need to decrease the size of that fragment and increase the amount of damage it does. To make future events track as planned, I need to frighten the planet half to death, not actually kill it. Writing plausable science fiction is a bit of a challenge. :laugh: