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- From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
- Subject: Re: TP research
- Message-ID: <RSHOLMES.92Dec27225316@rodan.syr.EDU>
- In-reply-to: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk's message of Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:32:00 +0000
- Organization: Syracuse University
- References: <memo.829760@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 23:08:40 EST
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- In article <memo.829760@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
-
- > The trouble with radiation and electricity, as Niven pointed
- >out re 'wireheads', is that they're free...economically, a good drug is
- >something hard to come by.
-
- Eh? Remind me to let YOU pay my next electric bill, Terry! Though I
- suppose enough current to stimulate a human or trollish brain would
- cost less than, say, leaving the refrigerator door open.
-
- You can also buy us a new ruthenium source in a few years. Granted,
- cosmic rays are free ... but cosmics aren't a big enough dose to do
- much. Serious rems cost money to come by -- more money than hemp!
-
- --
- - Rich Holmes
- "Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of
- accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave
- like this." -- Douglas Adams
-