On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Evyn MacDude <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:27, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > The LP18 Grav Plow is actually a contragrav rotary tiller, but on most > > worlds in known space nobody makes such technical distinctions. The LP18 > > consists of an open seat mounted on top of the narrow engine pack and an > > 18' axle with rotating tines. > > > This one really is science fiction...... > Fantasy, please. Science fiction is plausible. > > Plows need traction... Kinda like a Grav powered bulldozer. Not efficient > at > all. > > Nonsense. Plows merely need *force*. gravity and friction are the usual methods of applying it, but there's no reason you can't do it with vectored thrust, if you were so inclined. > Now, as a no-till device it works fine > -- > Evyn > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
