[gurps] Water Jet spell

[midnightwind at comcast.net]

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From: "Gerald "roguebfl" Grenier" <roguebfl at gmail.com>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:46 PM,  <midnightwind at comcast.net> wrote:
> > All:
> >
> > Any thoughts from you engineering types on how much "thrust" the Water Jet 
> spell provides at given energy inputs?
> >
> > The setting:
> >
> > Enchanted water jet device, self-powered with Power-3, as propulsion on a 
> water craft.
> >
> > Any other thoughts?
> 
> A possible answer is zero. it might be designed so that the magi is
> not blow around like a bad cartoon holding a fire hose.
> 

I'd not thought of that, and it is a good thought.  I'll mull that over.  Even if true, one could still mount such a magical device and fire it at a water wheel mounted on a cart-- the first Yrth-like horseless carriage?

-vk