LONG LIVE RED CHINA (Would you like your troll mein with soft or crispy noodles?)

12/26/05 | C.L. Gartman

[Dead Corpse]

Ain't no one else out there that looks remotely like me. I'd almost have to play me. At least it'd be REALLY hard to forget what I'd say....

[stephenjohnbanker]

WOO HOO 1200

[Tax-chick]

Thank you!

[Not A Snowbird]

Should we lean in any particular direction while all this is going on? Or just sit down and hold on?

[NicknamedBob]

"... although he's not really distinguished enough."

You know you don't have to flatter me. You're already in charge of the payroll.

I think this would be fun.

The part of the Plesiosaur will be played by Darksheare's left arm.
The part of baby Whosis wil be played by James, with voiceover by Darkchylde.
The part of "Nessie" will be played by James' Penguin, in a stretch role.

[Tax-chick]

The part of "Nessie" will be played by James' Penguin, in a stretch role.

I'll say! Maybe James' snake, Cuddles, would be a better choice for that. Cuddles is yellow with black stripes.

[NicknamedBob]

"Should we lean in any particular direction while all this is going on?"

You wouldn't notice anything, unless you were looking at the Thrust Ring, (the one ring that binds them all).

Once we start the modest thrust, as we head toward the Moon again, you might notice that, if you are drinking a cup of coffee at the time.

Shortly it will be clear sailing, all the way to Mars. We'll need to think of ways to entertain ourselves.

[Tax-chick]

I think taking naps will be plenty of entertainment. James and Cuddles have already started, so I'm off to join them.

[NicknamedBob]

Cuddles sounds good for the role. Of course, we'll shoot in shadow, to make Nessie seem menacing, even though he was only on a romantic visit.

I'm just glad we had the flotation then. Nessie did a lot of damage looking for love in all the wrong places. He wouldn't be able to get back in now, of course, the hull has been strengthened considerably.

[Dead Corpse]

Silly people...

On a side note, the fusion cascade triggers for the new mag-rail launcher work just fine. Despite what NASA thought, that 70kg-TNT "blast" they saw was a small, steel darning needle moving at a decent percentage of C.

[Not A Snowbird]

I'll bring Yahtzee!

[NicknamedBob]

So you're saying our "Meteor Deflection Protocol" is now operational? Very good!

One has to be careful in describing such procedures. There are those who might be inclined to think that we were "arming" ourselves.

When you say "small" I assume you mean within the eighteen to twenty inch diameter that I specified for our "Radioactive Material Disposal Procedure" canisters, right?

[Dead Corpse]

20" diameter? A darning needle?

But yes, the larger scaled tracks are being upgraded with the new cascade units. We are at 63% complete. This was just the test model. Man portable actually. Only vaccuum prevented that needle from vaporizing. Acceleration protocols can be timed for geometric or straight scalar curves. You could have it light enough to not ruffle a feather, or you could max it out which would reduce any biological matter within the "bucket" to a thin, pink paste.

The bigger tracks can launch tons of material at a time. Of course, the more "magnetic" the material, the more efficient it'll operate. Iron chunks in the 800lbs range can be zipped out at relativistic velocities.

Just don't shoot 'em all off at once, or only on one side. Newton wouldn't like it very much.

[NicknamedBob]

Your boys have been busy!

As you know, I tended to concentrate on supervising the gleaning of materials from the ocean currents, but I noticed that the piles of excess material tended to diminish from time to time. Excellent!

Ocean harvesting, GCNR/REs, outfitting and equipping Habitats A and B, and finding personnel for the various hydroponics and other agricultural projects has occupied most of my time.

I've had very little extra time available to investigate my own projects. Everything in my labs is just hanging fire until we get some quiet time.

I did make sure we had those "Radioactive Material Disposal Canisters" operational though, just in case. Now I need to see about retrofitting the GCNR/REs with "asteroid-mining" prospecting LASERs on their noses. Multi-spectral, of course.

Since they are normally parked on the Thrust Ring, that gives them a "Forward Look" that will eventually make it possible to use them as asteroid or meteor defense systems.

Sir Isaac will not be disturbed by their operation.

[Darksheare]

LOL.
Works for me!

[tuliptree76]

Thanks for the update, Bob.

[stephenjohnbanker]

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[Tax-chick]

Cuddles is very docile, but I'm sure he can act menacing, with a little help!

[Dead Corpse]

Wait'll you see what I'm working on next. Ever wonder what'd happen if you "convinced" the entangled virtual partical pairs along a demarcated line that they were actually all anti-particals? Then had them interact with real-space particals already extant inside a mass the size of an asteroid?

Test cases show they should just kinda fall apart along the seam. Of course, energy requirements are phenomenal. We'd need to dedicate a significate portion of our reactor output to the task. Think of it as a "Death Star Superlaser" that doesn't actually blow anything into tiny pieces. Just Ginsu's them.

[Monkey Face]

Hi, Kids!

Walp...I'm not leaving until Thursday morning, so you have another day to put up with me. *snort*