I imagine there's other connections not shown near the Great Lakes since this is just showing the dominant south paths, but for the most part it does seem that the inner continent is higher north than south. Which given the geological history also makes sense, with the Canadian shield.
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Just take him out for an all night party to get him drunk, and then accidentally open the door as the sun is rising.
Between that or blimps on Mars and other planets, it's almost a given to have something with any new exploration. Just like rovers are so much better than a fixed location for a one-shot deal.
It's also a stasis field generator. You can't reverse time, but you can keep it stopped at that moment.
So, lack of communication. That does seem to be a core part of problems in any place.
Nothing that high level. Different systems are running independently, some may be redundant to each other in case one fails. But run something long enough especially in extreme conditions and things can drift from the baselines. If a power off and on regularly prevents that it's a lot easier than trying to chase down gremlins that could be different each time they pop up for different reasons.
Even NASA I believe has done such resets from Apollo through the unmanned probes from time to time. Mentioning Windows, the newest versions don't really do this baseline reset if you just shut them down, even if you disable the hibernate/sleep modes, while a restart does.
Given where things left off, a sequel would have the same feeling as the Star Wars sequels. "Somehow Master Control returned." I'd be more for a retelling of the original with a tighter script - I mean it wasn't the best in plot, dialogue, or continuity, it was just so different that it blew us away back then. The graphics is the easy part.
It's true that I haven't yet seen temperatures as low as some of the worst winters I've experienced in the Southeast. I remember as a kid a few bad ones that shut things down for a week or more, destroyed lots of trees and property with ice buildup, etc. What makes it far worse than just cold is the wind caused from the Arctic blasts (driving storm fronts), as well as the higher humidity from more moisture in the air in general. Add to that the regularity of these Arctic temperature shifts every year now since the jet stream is toast from the reduction of the difference between the latitude temperatures as the Arctic warms.
I am getting tired of some of these Youtube weather channels with their "this is a bad one" videos every week. They are bad, but don't act like it's not "normal" now. I guess "yet another wave of cold/hot" doesn't get clicks.
During a flight is a bit much, but some aircraft have a reboot between flights as a standard procedure to fix glitches that would happen if the plane was left on for the entire time.
They are the more progressive state. So imagine how other states are in regards to caring much.
There were a number of books back then like that (mysteries and such), with the idea that you only revealed the answers to things you couldn't figure out.
As for the game itself, the one part that I have a continued memory about is where you could press the button labeled "Do Not Press". Only doing it a few times gave you the same "nothing happens" message, but being persistent got a different one. Infocom games were so great and full of humor, even the non-Douglas Adams ones.
Clothing maybe. Jewelry or other inorganics.