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- From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
- Subject: Re: TP research
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:56:03 GMT
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- tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
-
- >This is a question for all you godless scientists out there:
-
- >Bearing in mind the following, which has been established before or will be
- >established in Men At Arms (first draft finished, hurray!): trolls are
- >silicon-based and their brains remsemble computers rather more than our
- >brains do -- THEN
- >What is the troll equivalent of a drug?
- I must be asleep. I could have sworn that read dung.
-
- >What is the troll equivalent of alcohol?
-
- Basically silicon is a lot harder to make react than carbon (thats us
- to you iggerants out there :) so to give a troll a buzz, you'd have to
- make them drink something with a bit of a kick in it.
- Say silanol , which is alcohol with the carbon replaced with a
- silicon (honest). Or silane, same principle, only methane.
-
- These silicon chains are only stable up to 4-silane. After that
- they lose in in room temperatures..... brandy au flamb anyone?
-
- >I think maybe we'd be looking for some kind of chemical impurity found in
- >silicon -- what causes a batch of silicon to be discarded? We need something
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^6
- It didn't make a good sandcastle.
-
- Eccles aka NO! I don't care if its Christmas! Don't shut the computer cen-
-