“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington

Or their offspring......

“Navigare Necesse Est”-'Get me out of here!'

Go back and read Interlude on Titan in F (For Tomorrow) - it's explicitly discussed (and dismissed for the given situation) there.

Offsides

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

Overtechnology has come up with a retrovirus that can pretty much immunize someone
against death, Mann Systems tanks can make ICZERs. The WDF made intelligent dinosaurs in its spare time. I think the tech of the day is quite able to handle a little gene-splicing.

--rR

Always remember the motto of the WDF's Life Sciences Division:

You should because you can.

--G.
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Trademark infringers! We were there first!

--G.
do not look directly at the operational end of the device
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Which is related to the WDF Weapons and Optics Research Division motto:

"Do not look into laser emitter with remaining eye."

--
Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

Apparently one of the developers there disregarded laser safety and got zipped in one by the Class II laser we use while making manual live adjustments. He's fine, BTW, but that's one for the company books--that quote is so apropos, Geoff.

--G.
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Many years ago, when I hung out at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, they sold t-shirts with that on it, as an industrial warning logo, as a fundraiser for the Lasers, Optics, Holography and Other Mean Uses Of Light Club.

--
Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

...and didn't tell me that's what he was up to until he was done, in one-thirtieth of the time that operation generally takes, and I was sitting there feeling like I'd gone a few rounds with Hal Jordan.

Abuse. It's how you know the #1 retinal specialist at the #5 eye hospital in the country loves you.

Ard Collier
that Janice chick
Usual Suspect and general menace

They may have Glados, but we have Neo-Tigers :)

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

And Neo-Raptors, Neo-Lions, Godzilla...

EVE could beat up GLADOS with half her processing power disconnected.

VISION could beat up GLADOS while running on a Commodore 64.

Peter Eng
--
Dalek and the two Snowths:
EXTERMINATE!
doot doo de doo doot.
EXTERMINATE!
doot doo deet doot.
EXTERMINATE!
doot doo de doo doot, de doo doot, de do-do do de doot doot doo doot doot.

EX-TERM-IN-AR-TY-AR-TY-CLEANSE THE WORLDS! WE CLEANSE THE WORLDS! WE CLEANSE THE WORLDS...
EXTERMINATE!

--rR

(or maybe just not to the time that we see..., I'm a little confused as to the origin of Edison).

He's from the year 413,000,000 or thereabouts, but in his timeline, Earth's original civilization ended in fire in about 1988, and Ω-II was developed a year or two afterward. (Yes; afterward.)

--G.
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“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington

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As much as I am very much looking forward to seeing Anthy's daughter, I rather think it won't be for a while yet. Either way, though, I wait with bated breath.

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard

While I have felt no particular need to investigate spacegoing derivatives of Forester, I confess I have perused a number of those who followed him in fictionalizing the same basic period - O'Brian, Dudley Pope, and Alexander Kent, mainly. (I did read An Eye of the Fleet, the first volume in Richard Woodman's Nathaniel Drinkwater series, but I didn't find it engaging and won't be continuing with that series. The brutality of life at sea in the Revolutionary-to-Napoleonic period is something that's inescapable in any such series, and rightly so too, but Woodman seems to have an unnerving fascination with it at times, dwelling on the unsavories like Hannibal Lecter talking about livers. I find it offputting.)

Mind you, this was not so much in the way of research as just because I happen to like that sort of novel.

--G.
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They're linked on the main UF page.

--G.
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(dammit I hate missing the obvious)

I will check out pope and kent. They'll make a nice change from a summer of fan fiction, jim butcher, and lackluster romance novels.

t.
who really needs to get a new addiction.

Trigger Argee
trigger_argee@hotmail.com
Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - HST

Sounds like a good thing for private-mail. Not really private, not really mail!

--G.
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