Posted on 06/22/2008 5:51:38 PM PDT by 2191dr
LOL!
Thanks.
The moaning of the Norkel on teh northern plains is deafening I am told.
Sounds like air blowing over a soda bottle top, only said bottle top is the size of a well.
Awful bone rattling racket I daresay.
And coming from something that looks like a rather house sized rabbit.
Creepy.
Should I be glad I live down here, then?
Yes, sorta like “Night of the Lepus”.
Have no fear, Darks. I’ve neutralized the Norkel with my Club of Venerable Hazing. It will do as it’s told. For now.
Be glad.
And be scared.
Be VERY afraid.
Don’t worry much about them, they only occur in the world that Karsh Kentu lives in.
And thankfully only there.
Would that it were!
Serious stuff abounds!
I need to get myself parallel to the deck. Can we continue this tomorrow? Lepusi are so interesting...
*smooch*
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/nightlepus/
Night of the Lepus, a horrible B movie that is pretty funny.
But still, what if the ‘cute’ critters could kill you in horrible ways?
Like.. butterflies sucking your brains out with their little mouth tubes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wduI6vjidzk
Above is a clip from the movie.
I’ll be in when I can.
Laters.
Just a little something to make you wish you were here....
109.9 °F / 43 °C
Partly Cloudy
Humidity: 5%
Dew Point: 24 °F / -4 °C
Wind: 6.9 mph / 11 km/hfrom the ESE
Wind Gust: 6.9 mph / 11 km/h
Pressure: 29.87 in / 1011.4 hPa (Falling)
Heat Index: 102 °F / 39 °C
Visibility: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV: 2 out of 16
Clouds: Few 10000 ft / 3048 m
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation: 1920 ft / 585 m
OK. That does it. Now I’ll have to check Amazon!
G’night, Darks!
Darn, that’s hot! The dragons would love it!
Yep. Asteroid belt. We've assumed a "parking orbit" with our Thrust Ring surrounding an appropriately sized asteroid. We brought the cylindrical elevator tubes to its North and South poles so that we could start digging.
Basically, it looks like we put an ankle bracelet on a rock.
Of course, the ankle bracelet has two habitats at a hundred and twenty degrees from each other that look like glass-enclosed cruise ships hanging from an Easter Basket handle, and a double handful of a two-mile wide casserole dish, with the Flying Castle in the middle of it.
Then the solar mirror, huge because of our orbit, reflects sunlight down to a second mirror, which slowly rotates to give each of our three habitats its own version of a twenty-four hour day.
Being offset like that, each Habitat starts its day eight hours before or after its neighbor. So if you're a late riser, you can still catch breakfast at the next Habitat over, by riding the spherical elevator cars through the cylindrical elevator tubes.
Oh, yeah. It's all rotating slowly, to give us artificial gravity at a Mars equivalent setting. Multiply your "weight" by point three four.
We grow our own food and oxygen, and make our own stuff and entertainment.
And the entertainment is particularly original. Good morning! The dragons are off to the herpet-vet. The rest of us are hanging loose. I picked my second Japanese eggplant, and I’ve finally got a regular eggplant growing.
Thanks, Bob! I couldn’t have said it better!
Good morning. I hope the vet has some encouraging news for all the herpet lovers.
Mmm. Egplant. Nomnomnom. Not.
Santana is fine, except for being in a snit about the dearth of crickets. I hope the vet will be able to do something about Slash’s foot.
Eggplants!
Egads, people, the danger!
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It’s entirely possible that those innocent-looking overgrown vegetables are getting ready to overrun our society.
They’re ipod-people.
Do you at least prefer eggplant to kudzu?
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