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Subject: 
Re: My Starcruiser
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lugnet.build
Date: 
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:44:36 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Alex wrote:
> > In lugnet.build, Tom McDonald writes:
> > > Then could it be a freighter? All that space inside could be hauling • something
> > > important like microtheta resonators, nanowave grenades or cold-cuts or
> > > something. :-)
> > Nanowave Grenades!  I like it!
> 
> Isn't nanowave weapons technology banned by the Third Trans-Sapient
> Convention of 12499?

No, that was the cold cuts. Nitrates, nitrites and other nitrogen-based oxygen
compounds used as food preservatives were widely banned by 12070, but it took
a few generations of holdouts (such as the Opoptians out on the eastern arm) a
few years to change their eating habits.

As they were technologically and infamously difficult to reproduce even on a
small scale, nanowave weapons were embraced by the DOP, who had all the
funding to build them, and as a result terrorists didn't stand a chance.

> Will I have to report you to the Democratic Order Of
> Planets?

Yeah, would you? My anthropology grant is almost used up and right now I'm out
of communications' range..

-Tom McD.
when replying, Do people submit unwanted spamcakes into other people's
emailboxes? People Do.



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  Re: My Starcruiser
 
(...) As I recall, the Opoptians changed their eating habits by succumbing to a fatal dose of food poisoning from ingesting too many nitrogen-based oxygen compounds. The last Opoptian's last words were spoken in the Hyper-Mayo clinic, and went (...) (27 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: My Starcruiser
 
(...) Well, I don't generally rate other peoples' models; I'm typically more of a selfish and anti-social type. But you asked. :-, I'm not going to be gentle, but please bear with me... A starship that size would need really big engines. Take a look (...) (27 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)

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  Re: My Starcruiser
 
(...) Isn't nanowave weapons technology banned by the Third Trans-Sapient Convention of 12499? Will I have to report you to the Democratic Order Of Planets? Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)

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