Reddit mentions: The best geographic globes

Please excuse the length, I love making lists.

Video Production

Green Screen

Bounce

Tripod

Books

Dining with Dr Who

Writing movies for fun and profit This is a great book. I have it, absolutely hysterical.

Writing

Ink quill

TARDIS Deluxe Journal

Travel

Street Signs

Flags

Eiffel Tower Chocolate Mold

Little Window Beach

17th century world map

Watercolor World Map

Universal world wide adapter plug

Hidden pocket wallet



Science!

Liquid Gold Plating Kit

Molecular Gastronomy Kit

This one also works for gardening:
Moons and Blooms lunar calender

Inflatable earth with glow in the dark cities

Galilea Moon Phase Calendar and Clock

Glow in the dark lunar calender!

Art

Sunprint Kit

Scrapper tool set

Fantasy!

LOTR inspired necklace

Another LOTR inspired necklace

Dragon necklace

Dragon JEwerly box

These/this are/is a book, but Mercedes Lackey is a FANTASTIC fantasy writer. I'd start with the Mage Winds trilogy or Mage Wars series.

Outdoors

Portal-able Speakers If you want to listen to relaxing music (or just music) while reading or chilling outside, this is the perfect speaker. It goes pretty loud, my bro has one, I steal if to make my showers musical.

Solar power LED Water proof color changing globes

Ball lanterns!


Math

Math clock

Mental Math

Pi ice cube shape tray

Mini Abacus pendant keychain

And it was delicious

Math jokes

Math/science ice cube tray


Rubik's Cube office thingy

Abacus-they have these in all colors and shapes and what have you.

Spirituality

Wasn't quite sure what you're looking for, but these things are pretty relaxing and some of them are used in meditation or for relaxation/de-stress so I figured I could put 'em here.

[LED mini waterfall)(http://www.amazon.com/Mirrored-Waterfall-Light-Show-Fountain/dp/B008Q3GH1O/ref=pd_sim_hpc_17)

Zen reflection bonzai tree with a little pond

Candle and water fountain

Five tier illuminated fountain

Other random fun things!

DR Who Projector clock

Sherlock season one Dunno but I feel you might like this show.

Giant Nail polish set


Nail art brushes

LED faucet water glow thing

Alright! I think I'll stop there before this becomes a novel xD

The main issue would likely be resolved by how the city is being made to fly. To dwell into the flying city concept more deeply, we must first note that the word flying city is a bit of a misnomer. Flying cities generally float, and there are two main reasons that things can float in an atmosphere. Either it is more buoyant than the fluid it is submerged into, or because there is an energy vector running counter to the gravitational attraction as can be seen inside of floating magnetic toys or on a helicopter. Inside of Pathfinder rules, we aren't limited to even them as immovable rods are a thing. That said, it might be a bit more useful to discuss city foundations in real life first to discuss why it is that buildings even have foundations in the first place.

Buildings are big, heavy, and tall. This means that they can easily sink, lean, or just break in some cases. If a building has no foundation, then it could easily sink in the relatively soft ground, lean if one part of the ground gets worked free by natural events or if the foundation is not too strong, or simply break apart if the foundation can't keep the building together in times of great seismic stress. In all these cases, building foundations are very important. A building's weight presses down from above and accumulates below, and so foundations are necessary. When you get to flying cities and magic however, large parts of these concerns go out of the windows. When you design an engineering project with magic in a system like pathfinder involved, you are basically working with supermaterials. When materials are essentially weightless, of nigh infinite strength, and can be procured at essentially no cost the construction paradigms of the real world becomes quickly overturned. This brings us neatly onto how the city is being made to fly.

1. The entire city is infused with magic down to every hamlet, every fountain, and every brick. Using some variant of the levitation spell, the wizard has essentially removed the hold of gravity over the entirety of the city's material and allowed the components to float through force of magic alone. In this case, the city's foundation is actually harmful as every pound added to the flying city would add to the required scope of the spell needed to life the city to the sky. As an engineering problem, this would essentially be if you were asked to design a city with a material with load bearing capabilities similar to stone but with zero weight on a foundation that experiences zero natural erosion, seismic activity, or gradual compression. When a city floats, the foundation of the buildings sit on the floating magic and not on earth and stone.
   
2. The city is floating on keystones: essentially larger immovable rods. In this case, the city would require foundations, but it would essentially require completely new foundations built not from dirt and stone but from stronger materials. The wizard would probably have to bankrupt the treasury buying mithral and adamantine by the tens of thousands of tonnes and creating support structures to keep the floating city structurally sound. Admittedly, it would be easier to construct the floating city from scratch if the wizard decided to pick this method of gravity defiance.
   
3. The last option is that for an in-world reason, unworked earth and stone can be magically enhanced to float but worked material that creates the building can't. This is not entirely without precedent, stone shape can't manipulate worked stone either. In this case, having a thick foundation layer beneath the city does make sense. As for how thick it is however, that still falls to how the city is being made to fly. If the earth is being fixed into that point of the sky a la immovable rod, then the thickness of the foundation will depend on the deepest point of the city. Realistically, maybe 200 ft down. If, on the other hand, the rock is not fixed but is simply somehow buoyant (magically enhanced to have zero or negative weight) then having a bulk of earth half a mile thick or thicker then makes sense. It should be noted, however, that this is the only method mentioned, so far, that would require you to have such a thick foundation of rock and dirt beneath the floating city. Foundations and building on rock and stone is a concept we have because said rock and stone is what is supporting the weights of the buildings we make in real life. When the city rests on the force provided by a grand spell, the necessity for the kinds of concepts we see in the real world become largely irrelevant.
   
   Just remember that the earth beneath the city, when you begin introducing flight, is far from a necessity for a flying city to function. When we begin working with super-materials, it is only normal that the results that we come up with look like a departure from anything we've seen. This is perfectly normal in engineering and science of course, working in the frontier often yields surprising and counter-intuitive results. In any case, feel free to make the earth and dirt beneath your city as thick as you want to. Your players probably aren't the kind of insufferable engineering and physics students and lore nerds I personally need to deal with. Just know that there is no need for any particular thickness the dirt layer beneath the city needs to be from an engineering perspective. Sometimes, in fiction 'it feels right' is better than 'it is technically correct'.

Aoske's entire store is pretty great.

Hanyxi® Remee Sleeping Mask Lucid Dream Induction Enhancing REM Inception Dream Control

• This is a magical goggles
  
  
• allowing you the freedom to dream Who want to dream and anyone can dream
  
  
• In the dream think of what to do !
  
  Wingler Christmas Gift Present High Rotation Mirror Luxury Creative Shape Magnetic Suspension Maglev Levitation Globe Telluria U-a4
  
  
• Operated by an electronically controlled magnetic system
  
  
• The magnetic above the gadget contains an electro magnet and a magnetic field sensor
  
  
• The base contains a micro-processor and the electronic control components that make the gadget levitate
  

I love the idea, but have reservations about it feeling impulsive? Those prices aren't bad, but you can probably find something on Amazon for the same price (or less if you're lucky) and have more consistency on how they look. Something like this might be awesome if you want a good deal and are looking for something to go with gold/jewel toned flowers.

Hello :-)

A while ago I looked into cheap projectors for a tiny in-class dome. The reviews are usually not that great.

The somewhat decent home-use ones (Sega Homestar, Pro Home Planetarium) already cost over $100 and are often also just rather simple disc projectors. :-(

The cheaper ones are often just pinhole projectors or have very simple projection discs & optics. And they often just project a random starfield without any actual constellations.

A cheap used projector or one of those "pocket projectors" for under $50, and a small computer (rPi, hdmi android stick) with Stellarium might even be a better choice.
Sadly the cheap projectors have a low native resolution usually 800x480 at best, some just640x480 or even 320x240. And they output only a few hundred lumen, meaning the room has to be completely dark. Some can't project larger than ~70". A few projectors with a bit more resolution, e.g. 800x600 exist. The cheap $30-$40 ones usually have 320x240 and 80-100 lumen or so.

What type of projection are you looking for? (small room... realistically moving constellation/stars)

Just to put it out there: How about a google cardboard viewer (e.g. one of the better plastic ones for $20 or so) and a last-gen smartphone with an app like Solar System VR, Cardboard Space, VR Planetarium, Startracker VR or VR/3D videos?

Does she have a telescope or binoculars? That could be another option (refurbished Skyscanner 100, Celestron Cometron binoculars, and a book such as "Turn left at Orion" or similar).

The Mova planet globes are also nice gifts but usually >$100. Maglev planets are nice too 1 2.

An Orrery is also very nice 1 2.

Darn, there are so many pretty things 1 2 that cost so much :-) Sorry for the link spam.

Clear skies!

‘Ello! I found a few:

A modernist Black and white globe an Amazon: $15 USD - Here

A more vintage-style globe with styled colour: $37 USD - Here

If you prefer a larger, more vivid globe, try this: $25 USD - Here

If you want a hand crafted, gemstone globe with bright colour: $75 USD - Here

If you want a vintage light up globe with LEDs: $60 USD - Here

And finally, if you want a true antique style globe, consider going outside the limit: $112 USD - Here

So this looks like to be the 2000 edition due to the authors (although the date is marked at [2000?] and so is questionable). That's the best guess since I can't see any country borders, but we're safe to say that it's not old enough for that vintage value and just to say old enough to be outdated. They don't make it in this model anymore, and their official site doesn't sell that kind of stand. The closest model I could find was an Amazon one which say it was first being produced in 2003.

However, here's a list of date references to find the accurate date of your globe.

It has the same color scheme as their Commander II globe which brand new is worth 250$, although amazon has the same one for 450$. That cooper-looking stand though kind of ruins the authentic look to it, but that's just personal opinion.

You could probably get 75-150$. You could also get 200$ if you lie to the customer about its age(or just forget to mention), not like most people care about the minor details. They just like that globe looking feel

The majority of your statements are false. First, remember that nobody claimed that the big bang definitely happened. Even those physicists who support that theory will tell you that we have proven very little about the origins of the universe. There is even a credible theory that the universe has no beginning at all! and just because we cannot rule out the possibility that time started with the big bang does not by any means make physics "quackery". Remember, the conventional "dimensions" of height, width, depth, time is a very simple way to think of the universe. Modern predictions of the number of existing dimensions ranges anywhere from 7 to 26(bosonic string theory)!

If the universe does have a beginning, we certainly do not "know" that time existed before it. Remember, time is all about perception. If you learn more about physics, you will learn that we don't really know all that much about time at all, and even less about things like "why does it move forwards", let alone how it came about.

With regards to the simulation theory, there is little beyond the words of a philosopher to support this. Several experiments have been conducted/are being conducted, but no supporting evidence has been found so far.

The reason that that people are so "resistant" to "alternate views" of the shape of the world is that the shape of the world is something we have proven to the fullest extent that we can observationally, experimentally, and mathematically. the basic shape of the earth is NOT in question by any credible scientist.

Also (there's no such thing as perfect approximation),2D maps CAN accurately represent the whole earth. Check out the AuthaGraph. they're impossible to read for use day-to-day though, so they're mostly a tool for researchers. Or, if you want the most accurate projection, get yourself one of these :P.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017VL0D2K/

They run $20-$30 compared to the pads, which are newer tech and cost usually ~$60 like OP mentioned.

It's much easier to stabilize an object between two opposed electromagnets above and below, than it is to stabilize it away from electromagnets only below it. Doesn't look quite as cool tho.

Free is a good price. That model retails for almost $200 on Amazon!

How old is he? 15 year old me would have liked it. 25 year old me would have been okay with it. 35 year old me would rather have something like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008Y54G5I/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awd_x_lOM7xbGH6JP1Q

https://www.amazon.com/Imax-89093-IMAX-Chalkboard-Globe/dp/B00BXQT7Z4

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EDIT: https://www.amazon.com/Paladone-Box-51-Chalkboard-Globe/dp/B00YCAX9MU

^ That one is better

I know I'm late to the party, but this was one of my favorite things as a kid: http://www.amazon.com/Educational-Insights-Geosafari-Talking-Globe/dp/B000I62L9Y

You could try the Mova mars globe that slowly spins on its own by solar power.

Their globe of earth with clouds on it is actually pretty cool.

Yeah it uses magnets to keep it floating something like this one http://www.amazon.com/Stella-Nova-Silver-Levitating-4-Inch/dp/B00110FFQW
that one is expensive though

I got curious about that Jupiter globe and this shit is expensive but looks cool: http://www.amazon.com/Mova-MG-45-JUPITER-Jupiter-MOVA-Globe/dp/B008Y48DYY

I'm a shill for Amazon even if they aren't actually paying me. There are a few globes up you could crack open and re-use the magnet for ~$20. Here's one:

https://www.amazon.com/Aukee-Magnetic-Levitation-Floating-Decoration/dp/B074GM91PL/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=levitating+globe&qid=1557013004&s=gateway&sr=8-4

edit: one caveat is that this version may require top and bottom magnets and may be more sensitive to weight and limits size. YMMV

2nd edit: If you don't already have a moon stl this guy seems to have a lot of possible options for size and whatnot

In case anyone was like me and immediately wanted to look this up

Smile link

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B008Y48DYY/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_hRHHDbNPNXSNH

Yep, here’s a link with a pic: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074GM91PL/ref=dp_cerb_1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B017VL0D2K/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1494738010&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=magnetic+levitating+globe&dpPl=1&dpID=4141ASnK0LL&ref=plSrch

Edu-Toys EDU36899A Desktop Political Globe, 11-Inch https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A7TSXWG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0uieAbKR2NX7W

https://www.amazon.com/Mova-MG-45-JUPITER-Jupiter-MOVA-Globe/dp/B008Y48DYY

10 left here.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008Y48DYY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_aJtyybNAF84GC

https://www.amazon.com/Mova-MG-45-JUPITER-Jupiter-MOVA-Globe/dp/B008Y48DYY

Here

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Too-bloody-expensive/dp/B008Y48DYY

https://www.amazon.com/Still-bloody-expensive/dp/B008Y48DYY/

MOVA Globes

They used to sell them on ThinkGeek, I got one a few years ago. They also sell them on Amazon , or the company’s website

US version...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008Y48DYY/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_hRHHDbNPNXSNH

4.5" Jupiter MOVA Globe https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008Y48DYY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_AczyybYFB7MKG


Probably more for shipping. Does not qualify for amazon prime.