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- From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
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- Subject: Re: TP research
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:27:30 GMT
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- In-reply-to: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk's message of 22 Dec 92 13:08:00 GMT
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- >Regarding TP research; tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) adds:
-
- > This is a question for all you godless scientists out there:
-
- Wheres your Christmas cheer gone Terry? :-)
-
- > Bearing in mind the following, which has been established before or will be
- > established in Men At Arms (first draft finished, hurray!): trolls are
- > silicon-based and their brains remsemble computers rather more than our
- > brains do -- THEN
- >
- > What is the troll equivalent of a drug?
- > What is the troll equivalent of alcohol?
-
- Whats the troll equivalent of a virus? :-)
-
- > I think maybe we'd be looking for some kind of chemical impurity found in
- > silicon -- what causes a batch of silicon to be discarded?
-
- hmm, from what I can remember from my 1st year Physics, doesn't contamination
- take place during the manufacturing process? ie when the silicon is exposed.
- So we'd need to get at the brain somehow..iffy.
-
- > We need something
- > that theoretically disorientates/mildly poisons in small quantities and kills
- > in larger amounts?
-
- What about magnetic lodestones? Not strictly analogous to a real-world
- computer though...maybe the Trolls' memory is based on magnetic coils?
- Thus being around a high level of magnetism might cause a troll to become
- forgetful- or remember the wrong thing.
-
- > (And it needs to be a substance -- not just heat, which
- > I'm already using in the book) It would be NICE if its something
- > commonplace, like the sour milk 'drug' in Alien Nation.
-
- hmm, don't suppose working in an EMP is likely then?
-
- > Since I know there's experts of everything out there, let discussion
- > commence!
-
- Does this mean that whatever we come up with might in a future book!?
-
- > Terry
-
- Paul
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