Digest Archive vol 1 Issue 236
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champ-l-digest Sunday, March 14 1999 Volume 01 : Number 236
In this issue:
Re: Pun-ishment
Re: Anti-Grav (was Teleport Against Other ??? amendment)
Casting the X-Men movie
RE: Anti-Grav (was Teleport Against Other ??? amendment)
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 20:36:16 -0600
From: "Michael (Damon) & Peni Griffin" <griffin@txdirect.net>
Subject: Re: Pun-ishment
At 03:40 PM 3/12/1999 -0800, Bob Greenwade wrote:
> My next need:
> Gadgets based on puns.
> The worse the pun, the better the gadget! :-]
> (Even if nobody here ever uses any of the suggestions, this should be
fun!)
Well, ignoring some old ones (the Ray Gun, which Transforms targets into a
guy named Ray, or the variant Ronald Ray Gun...)
Telepartition - a dimensional gateway built into one of those drab cloth
cubicle walls.
Versal Translator - a device which will translate any form of poetry,
regardless of meter or rhyme scheme, into another.
Powered Exxon-Skeleton - a battlesuit that runs on crude oil.
"End Durance" Battery - a power source that can only be tapped during
attempts to break free from confinement.
Adamantium Clause - forget about trying to break *this* contract!
Static Cling Suit - doesn't let you stick to walls, but does allow lint,
bits of string and small pieces of paper to stick to you.
Hmmmm...not some of my better work. I'll sleep on it and see what tomorrow
brings.
Damon
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 20:41:27 -0600
From: "Michael (Damon) & Peni Griffin" <griffin@txdirect.net>
Subject: Re: Anti-Grav (was Teleport Against Other ??? amendment)
At 05:46 PM 3/12/1999 -0800, Wayne Shaw wrote:
>It would probably also pretty much neutralize any amount of Running/Swimming
>(though God knows I'd hate to figure out the effect of a zero-g field in an
>area with water in it)
It should simply cancel out your body's bouyancy (positive or negative) so
you'd neither rise nor sink when at rest in the water. Forward movement
(swimming) isn't gravity dependant, and the water would still be there to
push against/pull yourself through. Of course, the area would presumably
be *entirely* filled with water, so there'd be no place to "come up for air".
Damon
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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 13:53:36 EST
From: dobrien@e-mail.com
Subject: Casting the X-Men movie
There have been some good casting suggestions for the X-Men movie, but
everyone seems to have forgotten one thing that virtually guarantees good
box office for a movie: stars from the Fox Network. Scream, Scream II,
and Lost in Space, among others, featured Fox stars. With tongue firmly
in cheek, here is my Fox cast for The X-Men:
Professor X: Mitch Pileggi
Cyclops: David Duchovny or Jason Priestley
Jean Grey: Gillian Anderson or Tori Spelling
Rogue: Neve Campbell
Gambit: Luke Perry
Jubilee: Lacey Chabert
Emma Frost: Heather Locklear
Kitty Pryde: Calista Flockhart
Sebastian Shaw: John Rhys-Davies
Bishop: Julius Carry
Wolverine: Scott Wolf
Angel: Jack Wagner
Magneto: Peter Horton
Julius Carry and John Rhys-Davies are no longer on Fox, but they were, in
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. and Sliders, respectively.
Dennis
"Open the pod bay door, HAL."
"I'm sorry, Dave, but there's a General Protection Fault in module
KRNL32.EXE." -- Morgan Frew
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:39:52 -0800
From: "Filksinger" <filkhero@usa.net>
Subject: RE: Anti-Grav (was Teleport Against Other ??? amendment)
From: Michael (Damon) & Peni Griffin
>
>
> At 05:46 PM 3/12/1999 -0800, Wayne Shaw wrote:
> >It would probably also pretty much neutralize any amount
> of Running/Swimming
> >(though God knows I'd hate to figure out the effect of a
> zero-g field in an
> >area with water in it)
>
> It should simply cancel out your body's bouyancy (positive
> or negative) so
> you'd neither rise nor sink when at rest in the water.
Depends. Is _all_ of the water in Zero-gravity? Does the zero-gravity
field affect objects above the field, and if so, how far up?
If it covers _all_ of the water, and the water is held in place, then
that is pretty much all that happens. There are other effects,
however, with different assumptions.
Assume a 1-hex area with no gravity, going up vertically from about
100 meters down in the ocean. The pressure on all sides of the water
that _does_ have gravity on it would force the water around you
upwards at high speed. The target would find himself in a geyser.
Filksinger
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