Posted on 12/23/2006 11:31:23 AM PST by BibleBabe1
No problem.
I actually brought a whole box of granola bars with me last time I flew. I prefer to bring my own food when travelling. Airport food is so expensive, and I can't last going all day on a package of crackers served by the airline. :-)
9 pm is still early.
At least for me.
As much as I try to be an "early to bed" type, it just never seems to work out. Unless I am exhausted, 11PM isn't that late to me.
That's why he feels at home in one of the other Habitats.
Eight hours time difference between them, but only two minutes travel time in the elevator tubes. (It's a small world.)
I try to go to bed around midnight, but some nights bedtime is more like 2 am - even if I have to get up around 6:30.
But lots of time Irish stays up very, very late chatting with us. He needs to sleep sometime.
Back to work... See you later!
Same for me.
See ya, tulip!
LOL!
I guess so.
OK, thanks for your help Tulip.
I was thinking we could use it for mineral extraction of some of the smaller asteroids. Save the spider bots some work time...
Spider bots have too much free time as it is. I've seen them lounging around in the library, thinking they are hidden.
They can't hide the metallic sounds of their movements, so I know they are in there. Probably checking out the cheese and wine.
That's fine, but if they start in on mixing up the frozen margaritas, we may need to quarantine that level until the revelry settles down...
I think if we want to consider doing that we might have to beef up our structural rigidity. Maybe put an outer ring in the rotation path of the Habitats, and use the inner Ring and the outer ring together for a large magnetic field similar to a fusion ramscoop field, or Bussard Ramscoop.
While we don't currently have the technology to develop a fusion torch in this manner, we may be able to use magnetic fields acting upon the dust and ions of the inner solar system for reactionless propulsion. (It could also be a useful stratagem for shielding us from intense solar radiation during solar flares by trapping ions in the magnetic field.)
Positioning the inner and outer rings at different axial inclinations could give us steering, and the Habitats would be free to gimbal with the forces applied.
I wonder if there is any drink we can give them that will knock them on their butts so we can shovel them out to the lower levels, where they belong?...
The spiderbots have two modes of operation. A somewhat autonomous mode allows them to attend to tediously boring and repetitive maintenance chores.
But they can also be teleoperated. There is a good possibility some children have been trying to surreptitiously sneak into some restricted supplies.
Just check out who was signed on as operator, (and never give out your password!)
Like all robots, they are immune to the effects of alcohol. Some learned behaviors will give them the appearance of a "contact high," however.
Just remember they are all controlled electronically.
Have you forgotten in whose charge they are? If Darks can make a FAX machine come alive, and make a washer do a dance, I'm sure he can have an effect on the 'bots.
Darks is a walking EMP disaster, but the primary mode of operation of the spiderbots is under our control.
Darks has been experimenting with letting the bots modify their own programming in a randomized process of improving their function through survival of the fittest program.
As long as they're getting their work done, I'm okay with it. It is an efficient way of advancig their abilities.
Although a nice buttered rum would also hit the spot....
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