First thing I'd like to add is that even "legacies" has it's supernatural dose - the wireless energy transfer thing, which is referred to in "conspiracies" (and that energy thing nearly kept me from reading any other fpw book).

Fourth thing - sorry for bringing up this dusty thread again. Hopefully, it'll rest from now on peacefully.
Towka

Nothing dies peacefully here! :p

The wireless energy transfer is more science fiction than supernatural. It is based on Tesla's experiments and in fact works, but has limited practicality. Spys use this method to recharge batteries in listening devices via microwaves, for example.

Nothing dies peacefully here! :p

The wireless energy transfer is more science fiction than supernatural. It is based on Tesla's experiments and in fact works, but has limited practicality. Spys use this method to recharge batteries in listening devices via microwaves, for example.

Ron,
I love having a rocket scientist on board! Truly, you have a perspective few of us do.

Have you ever been to the Tesla site at Shoreham? I never got beyond the gates.

http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/NY3146/

Maggers

Nothing dies peacefully here! :p

The wireless energy transfer is more science fiction than supernatural. It is based on Tesla's experiments and in fact works, but has limited practicality. Spys use this method to recharge batteries in listening devices via microwaves, for example.

There used to be a theory that Tesla's Tower was responsible for Tungunska(?). I think now they are blaming it on a comet that exploded before it impacted the Earth. But wasn't Tesla's Tower able to collect energy for use? Basicly, set one up in your backyard and it would provide all the energy your household needed by collecting it through the air?


KRW

One our son's classes went on a field trip to the science museum a few years back. I took the day off and chaperoned. There was a demonstration of a Tesla coil/machine. I was awed by it then, and when I read about it in Jack's realm it made it even more real. Very powereful and Frankenstein-esque(?sic)

There used to be a theory that Tesla's Tower was responsible for Tungunska(?). I think now they are blaming it on a comet that exploded before it impacted the Earth. But wasn't Tesla's Tower able to collect energy for use? Basicly, set one up in your backyard and it would provide all the energy your household needed by collecting it through the air?


KRW

Tesla's tower was to broadcast electrical energy and radio transmissions around the world. His told his financial backers that his plan was to erect another tower in Paris to receive radio transmissions. His real plan was to use the Niagra Falls generating plant as the source of electricity to saturate the atmosphere. Anyone could pick up that energy with a simple receiving device. When his financial backer (J. P. Morgan) realized this, he pulled his funding (didn't want to give energy away) and Tesla went broke.

See http://www.teslascience.org
and http://www.teslasociety.com

There are some neat pictures there, and you can read about Tesla and get some appreciation of his genius. But, he was a bad businessman.

One our son's classes went on a field trip to the science museum a few years back. I took the day off and chaperoned. There was a demonstration of a Tesla coil/machine. I was awed by it then, and when I read about it in Jack's realm it made it even more real. Very powereful and Frankenstein-esque(?sic)

Sometimes Jack's realm overlaps ours. The Tesla site is being cleaned up (chemicals from photo processing contaminate the ground), and a recent newspaper reported that some problems are delaying the work. They found a conical-shaped pit, at least 150 feet deep, under where the tower was located. The pit has lots of debris in it and is "lined with some unusual kind of concrete". They haven't found any reporters... yet.

Sometimes Jack's realm overlaps ours. The Tesla site is being cleaned up (chemicals from photo processing contaminate the ground), and a recent newspaper reported that some problems are delaying the work. They found a conical-shaped pit, at least 150 feet deep, under where the tower was located. The pit has lots of debris in it and is "lined with some unusual kind of concrete". They haven't found any reporters... yet.

Thanks for the sites, very interesting reading. If they find any pillars.........that would be truely spooky!

Tesla's tower was to broadcast electrical energy and radio transmissions around the world. His told his financial backers that his plan was to erect another tower in Paris to receive radio transmissions. His real plan was to use the Niagra Falls generating plant as the source of electricity to saturate the atmosphere. Anyone could pick up that energy with a simple receiving device. When his financial backer (J. P. Morgan) realized this, he pulled his funding (didn't want to give energy away) and Tesla went broke.

See http://www.teslascience.org
and http://www.teslasociety.com

There are some neat pictures there, and you can read about Tesla and get some appreciation of his genius. But, he was a bad businessman.

I guess the device I'm thinking of would be the one to recieve the free energy. Free energy has never been a popular idea among the money men. Wasn't Tesla hit by a car about this time?

KRW

This is my first post here as well and I feel compelled to comment on this thread. I feel that the supernatural and the "otherness" is an absolutely essential part of the RJ universe. On the other hand it would be excellent reading about some early fix it jobs, however, it should be pretty obvious that Jack has been watched and "groomed" for some time so it seems to me to be unlikely that he would be altogether free of supernatural elements ever, including when he was younger etc... Just my opinion but it seems logical.
Ted

Wow! I think you just opened my eyes! What if the other - otherness (the supposed good force) used that kid on the bridge to throw a brick and kill Jack's mom forcing him into a spiral toward his RJ'ness. And, what if Jack found this out? Boy would he be PISSED! Rosolam could unveil this devious plot to Jack in Nightworld. Then, Jack would be faced with saving the world and accepting that his mother was killed fr this silly game of chess. Or, let the world die, just to spite the other - otherness!

HAHAHA I love it. Loads of potential.

Pipe dream... But, a fun one.

-Rip

Wow! I think you just opened my eyes! What if the other - otherness (the supposed good force) used that kid on the bridge to throw a brick and kill Jack's mom forcing him into a spiral toward his RJ'ness.

That seems like a good scenario to me, and it won't surprise me if it turns out to be true. But, I still maintain that it is premature to blame either the Otherness or the Ally (the "other otherness" ) as the source of Jack's problems. The Lady is still a leading candidate, in my book, and she could easily have been aware of Jack's potential long before either of the other forces became aware of him, which was probably long after his mother's death.

Brett