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- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: TP research
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:06:14 GMT
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- References: <memo.829760@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In article <memo.829760@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- > I like the idea of trolls haning around outside schools trying to hook young
- > trolls on boron ('Dis are yore brane. Dis are your brane on boron
- > phosphide'...) The trouble with radiation and electricity, as Niven pointed
- > out re 'wireheads', is that they're free...economically, a good drug is
- > something hard to come by.
-
- OK, let's say they need an alpha-emitter to get themselves high (think up a
- good excuse: the extra helium in their skulls produces an effect through
- sympathetic magic, or they need a positive charge), and since alpha particles
- don't penatrate very well, they need to ingest a strong source. Strong alpha
- emitters have a relatively short half life, so they need to get more...
-
- Downsides: the gamma radiation has the same effect as direct sunlight, so
- they need to make sure they don't get strong gamma emitters, plus the gamma
- given off by the alpha emitters slows them down and makes them cranky. Tainted
- "dope" would have more gamma emitters.
-
- What beta decay does to them is up to you.
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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