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Too easy. We all know that absolutely everyone on the Shard has memorized the works of the nineteenth-century hymnodist and dramatist Arthur Lewis Tubbs, who wrote "Word are like tigers' paws, soft and covered when you will, but eager and ready to scratch!" The Shattered Plains are like a Chinese chef trying to make a dinner from milk and cheese.

I'm an idiot. The first google image result for "heliodor" is green. Still, yellow light is better than green, but it's still far from the most photosynthetically-active wavelength in the spectrum.

Only the edges and tips would cut the sheathes. You could have a sheath modelled after a Lastclap, where you had two flat sheets sandwiching the blade, and hold the whole thing together with something like C-clamps or lashing.. I don't have the book with me at hen moment, but I remember Zahel used something during practice to dull the shardblade's edges. I don't know if that would have been discovered before or after control-gems, but a thingum like that would obviously remove all sheathing problems.

Both are immediately noticed by everyone on this site. Picking two random words from the book I'm reading at the moment: Electromagnetism is like a cathedral.

Huh? Heliodor makes green light. Plants are green because they reflect green light: green is the part of the spectrum they can't use. Green light is plant poop.

The Red Death from Poe. Read it way too young, and it gave me nightmares for a year.

Pathfinder: yup, I was definitely implying a temporary lobotomy for the two participating Kandra. But then, I know several women who wouldn't have minded being unconscious for the duration of their pregnancy. I agree that using existing spikes is the weak part of my scenario: I'm still not sure how much of a kandra's identity is stored in the spikes themselves, and how much of it is the interaction between the spikes and the mistwraith. If you let the spike degrade for a long time, you could probably get rid of most of the previous Kandra's identity, but then you'd lose the power of the Blessing as well. But I think it's within the realm of possibility of what we've seen in the books.

I'll try re-installiing firefox. It could just e a glitch. Thanks.

So, the parts have already been suggested, but here's my proposal for the full process of making a Wayne-Melaan baby with 4 parents. I'm pretty sure that there's WOB that mistwraiths don't reproduce by asexual budding: since we know that Kandra know their sex by their smell, we can assume that mistwraiths have males and females, and need two to tango. So, MeLaan and a male mistwraith (ReLuur, perhaps?) both eject their spikes, storing them in blood so that they don't degrade. Wayne starts storing a lot of health. The two mistwraiths do what they need to do, and make a baby mistwraith. Both adult parties are then re-spiked, and become their old Kandra selves. The baby is spiked with spikes from Paalm or another dead kandra. Once the baby becomes smart enough to follow directions, Wayne starts chopping off his own limbs, using his stored health to regenerate them. The baby consumes the limbs, and becomes a genetic clone of Wayne. Since humans have exactly 206 bones, and since exactly 90 of those are in the arms and legs, almost half of the baby's bones can be from Wayne. And Voila: one child, with significant biological contributions from both Wayne and MeLaan.

Firefox. They show up, but they're not obvious: it seems like they're rendered with half the weight of other text.

The site's default font seems to hide colons and semicolons: I can't say how many time's I've thought I was reading a run-on, only to discover, on re-reading, that a ghostly colon was pining away at the heart of the sentence. This seems clunky; it seems alienating. There might be solutions: there might be ways for the site to substitute default colons and semicolons from another font without changing the default font overall. I wouldn't know: I'm not a webmaster or a coder. But some similar solution would brighten my day; it would remove a persistent minor irritation. Thank you so much for everything you do.

Cljehja, yeah you could easily be right, but I still think I could be right too. Aside from glimpses in Dalinar's visions, we haven't seen a full all-oaths Radiant in action yet, so we can only speculate about how their interaction with a surge differs from a surgebinder's interaction wit it. Oversleep, I don't understand your comparison to a "rigid body". On a rigid body, for instance a music record, exactly the opposite is true. Think about a spot 2 inches from the center of a record. With each revolution, it needs to move 2*pi*r=2*3.14*2=12.96 inches. A spot 4 inches out needs to move 2*pi*r=2*3.14*4=25.92 inches in the same timespan. If you're twice as far from the center, you need to move twice as fast. However, you're right about vortices and conical flow. ( http://maxwell.ucdavis.edu/~cole/phy9b/notes/fluids_ch3.pdf). There, total speed varies with the inverse of the radius: an item twice as far from the center is only moving half as fast. However, that increased speed needs to be decomposed into three vectors: one pulling you horizontally towards the center, one moving circularly tangent to the center, and one pulling you down. You can only harvest the speed of the tangent vector; you need to counteract (row against) both the inward and downward vectors. The downward vector's share of the total speed will increase as you move towards the center, and the tangent vector's share of the total speed will decrease. This is where the math gets too confusing for me. I think that the ratio of the different velocity vectors at any point is dependent on the shape of the whirlpool, so we would need to know the depth of the basin and the radius of the drain-hole. I've gone back and forth on whether or not I can imagine points where you can harvest more energy from the tangent vector than you lose to the other two. Maybe. I'll keep working on the math. But it just doesn't seem likely to me at the moment. ..... Another way to decouple the ship from the inward pull of the water would be to just pull it out of the water by Lashing it up into the sky, but if the Wandersail could fly than it wouldn't have gotten into the predicament in the first place.

Guaranteed to be precise, but *accuracy* is user-dependent. A hawk in the rain is like a sad clown eating sushi.

First, didn't the bridge crews have morning duty and evening duty, at least under Gaz (i.e. pre-Maral)? And wasn't only one of those two slots bridge duty? So, at any given time, only half of the crews would be available to run. A standard run would have at MOST 20 bridge crews, so the early calculations can be halved. Also, you can't say that Sadeas claimed half the the runs, and then multiply his total by 10 to arrive at the total for all highprinces If Sadeas went on half the runs, then the most you could multiply his total by is 2--but we know that his tactics were more mortality-inducing than any of the other princes' were, so it would have to be less than that. Sadeas' bridgeman death toll would be lower than 25,000/year (250,000 over your 10-yer period), and the total army's bridgeman deathtoll would be lower than 50,000/year. ...... It seems like it would be a good idea to try to estimate how many people die in Alethkar each year, and compare our Shattered Plains death toll to that. Super rough estimates--I'm sure people can improve on them. Let's say Roshar has a population density similar to medieval europe. Medieval Europe had a peak population of 73 million. Since Roshar is a supercontinent on a world that's probably about two-thirds as big as ours (since, given equal density, surface area scales with surface gravity ), let's guesstimate that it is about three times as big as Europe, and so has three times medieval Europe's population. Since Alethkar is geographically the largest kingdom on Roshar, let's say it has one-ninth the total population of the contintinent. So, let's guess an Alethi population of 25 million. Now, given the high health citede above, we can assume low childhood mortality, so adult mortality can be the main thing we're concerned with. Average lifespan and mortality rate are linked: if absolutely everyone died on their hundredth birthday, then 1 person in 100 would die every year--if absolutely everyone died on their thirtieth brthday, then one person in thirty would die every year. Since we didn't see lots of pregnant teens in Kaladin's home village, and most teenagers entering adulthood still had living parents, it seems like people who survived to be parents would have to live at least 30 years--15 years for their own childhood, and 15 years for their children's. If we give Alethkar an average life expectancy of 30 years, then one person in thirty dies each year. So, in total, I'd guess that about .75 million Alethis die each year. My guesses are so rough that I could see it actually varying by a factor of 5, but I'd be surprised if the annual death toll in Alethkar was higher than 4 million, or lower than 150,000. So yeah. Given those numbers, It seems reasonable to guess that out of all deaths in Alethkar in any given year, about one death in fifty will be from bridgerunning. That still seems too high to be right.

Nah, Allomancer Jak is Earless Jaks from Kaladin's crew in WOK. He's a worldhopper. Yup yup.

Cljehja--Welcome! Have an upvote! I agree that what I suggest is a stronger use of Abrasion than we've seen yet, but Lift isn't a full Radiant, and we've mostly only seen her push the limits of her Abrasion when she's low on food, and therefore power. When Lift is climbing, it makes sense that she would alter the Abrasion between her shoes and the wall--so it seems likely that she can alter the friction of things other than her skin. Let's say she can easily make her whole body Slick. For the sake of argument, say that each oath offers a 10X-power upgrade. Three Oaths would then allow you to alter the Abrasion on an item 1000 times the surface area of a human body. That seems about right for the portion of a sailing ship below the waterline. Oversleep, since the water itself is not escaping the whirlpool, it is obviously moving at a speed below the whirlpool's escape velocity. So how could the water accelerate the ship to a speed greater than its own? You *COULD* use rowing to accelerate the ship in the same direction as the water--if you rowed fast enough, you would move in progressively-wider orbits and eventually escape. But wouldn't that just be counteracting the whirlpool, rather than "using its momentum?" And how would you achieve such superpowered rowing? Kaladin seems to get some Pewter-like strength and speed upgrades, so would you suggest that the Wandersail is manned with Windrunner galley-slaves?

My hipster friends have sworn they'll adopt bitcoin, and they've sworn they'll move to hermit-huts in Alaska, but they're still using dollars and haven't left the suburbs. Presidential caucuses are like chocolate croissants.

As always, apologies if similar ideas have been posted before--I couldn't find any priors. When I read about the Wandersail's escape maneuver, the first thing I thought about was a gravitational assist ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist) But that wouldn't work, because gravitational assists simply add to your velocity in the direction of the assisting planet's orbit. Since the whirlpool seems to be a stable, non-moving geological feature of Roshar, no gravitational assist is possible: it will just suck the Wandersail in, or (if the Wandersail was already moving at the whirlpool's escape veocity) alter its direction. But what if there was an Edgedancer or Dustbringer aboard? Someone who could alter the Surge of Abrasion? Then, the ship could enter the whirlpool, and build up angular velocity around the center equal to that of the water. Then, the Surgebinder could make the ship frictionless. The ship would now be decoupled from the water, and would experience no force pulling it towards the center. It would continue in a straight line, like twirling an Olympic hammer around your head and letting go. Thoughts?

Its head of state is a foreigner (after Mr. T takes over). Amaram is like a basket filled with collie puppies.

Botanica, 在哪里买得到“皇帝魂”e-book? 我要用它练习汉语， 可是amazon 和 google play 好像不卖这本书。

A Vorpal blade implies a dead Jabberwocky, and a Vorin blade implies a dead spren. Dalinar is like the drunken poet Li Bai.