Posted on 07/31/2005 1:19:25 PM PDT by KMB
Physics dictates that everything is reversible, so all we have to do is capture the outflowing information stream, and then reverse its operation in the reconstruction chamber.
Minus any insects, of course.
If it was started in second gear, then that's the gear you have to drive from...I drove an old Ford flatbed and it didn't even need a clutch, because the tranny was so "soft." (I had to remember to stop before I put it in reverse, however....)
It got me from Point A to Point B, and since my son was a toddler, I was grateful!
No, you don't! And I don't blame you.
You should go somewhere else, somewhere safe.
Just step up onto the platform and hold onto the handrail. There may be a moment of discomfort...
:7)
"...Minus any insects, of course."
You know as well as I do that La Cucaracha will most likely accompany us into space (inner OR outer) and that we will have to have certain *ahem* security measures to prevent the multiplication of said critters.
*shudder* I loathe and detest insects when they insist on taking back the space that I stole from them...
When you lock your front door, and go whistling off to work, you are temporarily "undomiciled."
I'm thinking there could be advantages to being in a place nobody could find, though. Especially the tax collector.
Reference: "Narrow Valley" short story from decades ago.
This was a reference to "The Fly" movie.
His "matter-transmitter" became a gene-splicer.
I think this could have been the story...
Narrow Valley • R. A. Lafferty • ss F&SF Sep ’66
Yah. Well. I didn't like flies then, and I don't like roaches now.
However, Vincent Price was to die for! AND! He was an excellent cook, with at least one book under his belt. ;o]
David Heddison, on the other hand, was kinda wimpy.
(Did I ever tell you that I met David Janssen's mom when I worked at the camera shop in Tarzana? She came in with photos of him that she wanted enlarged, so she could put them on her mantle. She was "my next door neighbor" for as long as I worked there, and she even asked for me on my days off. She was so proud of him.)
"...David Heddison, on the other hand, was kinda wimpy.
(Did I ever tell you that I met David Janssen's mom ..."
Word association...*ducking*
I'm a conservative Christian, and I will not be voting republican next time, unless Bush stops the influx of illegal aliens AND deports the ones already here.
I'm all tuckered out from being lead down the garden path by the republicrats for as long as I can remember. This is where I get off the merry-go-round.
I'm not Darks, but I think you are either angry or disgusted. Or maybe both.
I'm kinda lost in your statement, bnut I really would like to understand...
Talk to me. You can do it be FReepmail if that's easier for you.
You haven't been here long enough to be "tuckered out."
We're conservative here, (and on this thread, we're building a castle where you are most certainly welcome!) and you have a WONDERFUL screen name!
Please, don't judge all people by the few you have met here. And if you have questions, just ask, and I'll be more than happy to try and answer them. ;o]
Uh oh!
I thought you were a guy. Am I wrong about that?
Nice! Don't fear the reaper.
Whew!
I think no one will object to a free drink..."I think that I shall never see, a FReeper refuse a drink that's free." (My apologies to Whatsisname...)
I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
Ogden Nash
US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)
LOL!
I love Ogden Nash!
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