Odd Tech questions. Evyn MacDude (28 Sep 2017 02:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Cole (28 Sep 2017 02:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Kelly St. Clair (28 Sep 2017 02:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Kelly St. Clair (28 Sep 2017 03:05 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Rupert Boleyn (28 Sep 2017 06:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Rupert Boleyn (28 Sep 2017 04:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Evyn MacDude (28 Sep 2017 07:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Tim (28 Sep 2017 03:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Amber Witherspoon (28 Sep 2017 04:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Evyn MacDude (28 Sep 2017 07:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Jerry Barrington (28 Sep 2017 13:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. C. Berry (28 Sep 2017 18:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Kelly St. Clair (28 Sep 2017 18:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. C. Berry (28 Sep 2017 18:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. shadow@xxxxxx (29 Sep 2017 20:44 UTC)
Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Amber Witherspoon (29 Sep 2017 22:06 UTC)

Re: [TML] Odd Tech questions. Kelly St. Clair 28 Sep 2017 18:38 UTC

On 9/28/2017 11:34 AM, C. Berry wrote:
> Smith did something like this in one of the later "Lensman" books. The
> good guys found two planets with large and opposite momenta with respect
> to the target bad-guy world, installed ginormous inertialess drives on
> each of them, maneuvered them into position on either side of the target
> world, and then turned off the drive. Even at 15, this struck me as
> being just a teeny bit over the top, but it got the job done. :)

"Doc" Smith /defined/ "over the top" (and/or "it's the only way to be
sure") for a generation of SF.  :)

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