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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alansh
- From: alansh@microsoft.com (Alan Shield)
- Subject: Re: TP research
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.001348.11770@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 00:13:48 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- 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.
- >
- >Which reminds me that I always used to grin at that regular bit on cop films
- >where the cop finds the mysterious packages of powder, dips a finger in, and
- >says, "Yep, that sure is..." whatever. I'm waiting for the time when he dips
- >in the finger and says "Yep, that sure is...weedle aaargh oink..."
- >
- >Terry
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-
- This has already happened on TV. In the series Star Cops, David Calder finds
- a white package in his hotel room, dips his tongue into it and 'weedle aaaargh
- oink'!
-
- On the subject of electricity and radiation, i can see radioactive rocks being
- quite expensive for trolls, and also being difficult to purify - maybe trolls
- will start practising alchemy. As someone else suggested, they may also start
- sniffing radon.
- Hmmm, maybe we'll come across a troll with made out of a high proportion of
- Uranium or something similar - he should have quite an effect on other trolls,
- not to speak of him/her-self. "I'd giv my right arm for a hit." - Rrrrrip!
- (Or should he and another similarly structured troll ever fight...)
-
- Electricity won't be all that cheap, this is the discworld after all! Perhaps
- there is some interraction between magic and radiation - what does the High-
- Energy-Magic department of the UU experiment with, apart from anti-pasta?
-
-
- With all these doping suggestions, maybe trolls will start having doped-
- silicon(e) implants?!!
-
- Bye for now,
- Alan
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