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Re: Answers & Questions Q: I rate movies for the local newspaprer. What do you do? A: Los Alamos brand pulverised Beans.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? To the Shock of Miss Louise - Thomas Newman

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? People Are Strange - Echo and the Bunnymen

Re: Answers & Questions Q: I'm sorry for locking you in the booth while that song played over and over, but don't you think you're overreacting? A: Because we'd have really short shows if we shot them all down.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Take Me Home - Phil Collins

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why couldn't you diagnose that guy who couldn't pay your bill? A: Never bring a sword to a tank battle.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What did you say to the guy with a nose down to his knees? A: It's the Moppet Show!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Lost Boys Soundtrack. Currently playing Laying Down the Law by INXS and Jimmy Barnes from the same album.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Roger Daltrey

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? What's not to like? Nice rhythm, she chooses songs she can do well, easy on the eyes, and, unlike the vast majority of pop losers, she can actually sing. Currently: Takin' it to the Streets, The Doobie Brothers.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What does it mean when my chess opponent is old, grey and carries an hourglass? A: He was born in the summer of his 27th year.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Dear, why did you have to invent a time machine and go to the future to buy an iPod? And why is President Bush choking to death on a Chevrolet in our kitchen? A: I don't have to change the questions. The answers keep changing.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Vienna - Ultravox

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? 96 Tears - The Stranglers

Re: Answers & Questions Q: I'm sorry, sir, by law I can only sell you 10 Kilos of Napalm. What will you do with it? A: All day and all of the night.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Um, sir, I think I'm stuck... A: He's now working on lunar energy.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? All Day and All of the Night - The Stranglers

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Heh. The Same Old Sun for me.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why are you carrying your dinner into your bedroom? A: Because arachnophilia can be very painful.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Separate Lives - Alan Parsons Project (Yes, Vulture Culture came in yesterday!)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Funny, that's a band I hadn't even heard of before now. Right now: Day After Day (Early Stage Rough Mix) - Alan Parsons Project

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Hey Doc, what do you think of my alternate payment plan? A: Little metal spiky bits.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Okay, hand me the bird - why are you laughing? A: Squawker - Shadow of Thanksgiving

Re: Langston Field Except - the slow object (a man in a suit) stuck, and the fast object (the Pinnace) punched through. In addition, in MacArthur's final battle, the Battleship Lenin fires torpedoes directly into the battlecruiser's Langston Field. MacArthur is not defending herself at the time, and does not attempt to intercept them. Yet, Lenin's master does not attempt to fire THROUGH the field. I would have to assume the Field somhow neutralizes the Fusion warheads. However, it cannot simply inhibit neclear reactions within it; MacArthur, as with all starships in the CoDo Universe, uses a fusion reactor to power a photon drive.

Re: Langston Field There are problems with the Langston Field. It seems to be quite complicated. Pournelle only really detailed it's function in his co-authored The Mote in God's Eye (with Larry Niven). Most of the rest of the time, it just seemed a defense field with an interesting failure effect. However, in Mote we discover that it's semi-physically permeable. A human falls into the MacArthur's field and sticks there; he has to be pulled out by a search and rescue team. Later, a boarding team rams a pinnace through the ship's field to crash aboard, and suffer only a moment of extreme cold; similarly, three lifeboats are shot out of the field without any negative problems. However, Torpedoes (which are simply powerful nuclear missiles) detonate on contact with the field, someimes causing pin-point burn throughs, i.e. the field can be overloaded locally before the energy has a chance to disperse throughout the field. Not to mention the question of why the torpedoes aren't just set to detonate inside the field and thus destroy the ship. Plus, the fact that larger Langston Fields are more powerful than smaller ones due to having more area to radiate excess energy away with. The Moties exploit this feature with their expanding Langston Fields. So, if you want a Langston Field you're not talking a simple build. I'm not going to have much free time until monday, but I might try and build one then.