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Re: My Starcruiser
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Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:58:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Tom McDonald wrote:
> > 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.
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> 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 something to the effect of "can you give me more spamcake
> plea...ack".
You did know that the DOP was implicated in that, didn't you? And it wasn't
the Opoptians, you silly, it was the Yrmbul that went ape-poo over spamcake
and croaked. That's what you get when you have a collective-metabolism-based
form of society. All it takes is one mouthful of slop by some stupid idiot and
everyone ends up toast :P The Opoptians now exclusively consume marmalade.
> > 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.
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> You've forgotten the whole nanowave rights issue. The topic here isn't the
> reproduction rate of nanowave weapons (though that's entertaining to watch
> in and of itself, and paying to watch nanowave devices reproduce is still
> legal in some portions of the Inner Upsilon Vector)
Ah yes, the red-light vector. Gotta be careful: a tractor beam nearly pulled
me right into a "theatre" there once.
> but rather a third
> party's production of such devices. That, and the nanowave critters
> basically got tired of people watching them reproduce
I still don't believe the nanowave critters are sentient. IMO, it's all just a
clever marketing scheme akin to pet rocks, gigapets and nimflitters.
> and told the entire
> civilized galaxy to take a long quantum leap into a short black hole.
Oh yes, The Black Hole. *That* was the place where that tractor beam was
coming from..
> > > 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..
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> Where in the galaxy would you be out of range...? Oh fer crying out loud
> Tom, you're not on *EARTH* again, are you?!?
Well, the Ural mountains *are* lovely this time of year.
-Tom McD.
when replying, I will be sending my apprentice, Darth Spamcake...
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| (...) "Collective metabolism"? ROTFLMDO! (...) Yah, yah, we've heard your "tractor beam defense" before! :-, "That's right, your honor -- some Red Lectroid in front of me ran the red light and pulled me after him with a tractor beam, causing me to (...) (27 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) 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)
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