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- From: chad@quality.ta.ford.com (Chad Childers)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Re: TP research
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 17:47:12 GMT
- Organization: Technical Affairs, Ford Motor Company
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-
- >trolls could easily synthesise. However, I can imagine trolls mainlining
- >Uranium - and the consequences of getting a bad batch...
- >
- >"...so the guy who sold it swore blind it was pure U238, imported direct from
- >the rim. 'Course, it was U235 wasn't it... he'd only been using it for a
- >fortnight when he went critical and got the high of his life. Shame about the
- >mountain though... I liked it where it was."
-
- I like it! It has definite possibilities. U238 and Plutonium as "hard" drugs.
- Of course, the electrical and magnetic effects are good too, but a human brain
- gets just as screwed up by high-voltage, and CPU's aren't affected by magnets
- that badly, it's DISKs.
-
- How about citric acid as "alcohol"? Given that the electrical effects you
- can get from a potato or a lemon come from citric acid, it might do some
- interesting things to a troll... or maybe mercury, since that's liquid, and
- conducts... get a little of it flowing through the system and it'd start
- causing shorts. Zot! Frazzle! Whoopie!
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