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Cc: "Broc Olson" 
From: "Broc Olson" 
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Garry Stahl" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [trekcreative] Squids
and Monkeys


> Hailey, Jay wrote:
>
> >if you assume that there is only one way to create a substance that fills
the role of metals, ceramics or plastics,  or that there is only one way of
processing and preserving food, or harnessing chemistry in your favor...
> >
> >then no.
> >
> >I wonder if there are way to do these things that we haven't considered,
having relatively easy access to fire.
> >
> >Certainly, aquatic technology is going to be very different than ours.
Fantasy Aquatic technology would be way different.
> >
> >What if they could find ways to do all these things?
> >
> >
> Physics is physics.  I have to see something that lets you get around
> the endothermic nature of separating a metal from its ore.
>
> Then you have the matter of escape velocity.  Newton will have his due,
> there is no way around that.
>
> OK Squids are smart.  I will not argue that.  Find me a hard science
> method for a squid to get from the ocean to space.  The burden of theory
> is on the proposer.  I don't expect proof.  But give me a viable theory,
> something better than "hand wave:  SQUIDS IN SPAAAAACE!"
>
> Yes I am being a Missouri mule about this.  I don't see how, and I want
> something better than "yes they can"  So, "Show Me."

Volcanoes.  Given that they've got the technology, they can block up a
volcano, using the pressure of the eruption to propel them out of the
water, Using phospherous as a propellant, it is possible to propell the
ship out of the atmosphere.

Im not real sure of the physics involved, but it's basically a ship in a
cannon...albiet a really big one.

Broc Olson 


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