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Jorge R. Frank wrote:

Maybe half. "On the bounce" was a favorite phrase of Sergeant Jelal
from the book. I don't know what the hell a "homopolar generator" is,


I'm surprised that more people haven't heard about it around here...I
mean seriously, we all know how to evacuate ourselves from a Sperry
Ball Turret, so I just assumed....

But given a big flywheel/rotor at high RPM, you can dump a terrific
amount of momentary electrical power into whatever you want to drive
as the rotor is stopped...around the amount coming out of Hoover Dam
from something the size of a large basement freezer.

They use (or did use) one at the JET project to provide the pulse for
their fusion tests.
But it's "Rodger" Young - or did the film get that wrong too?
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:


They use (or did use) one at the JET project to provide the pulse for
their fusion tests.
But it's "Rodger" Young - or did the film get that wrong too?

No, it's the Rodger Young in both the movie and the book- but the men
of "Roger's Hung" make those guys look like wimps; we kill bugs with our
teeth, like Harley-Davidson riders! Our motto is "When you need
something rogered, we are the men to call!" But the one in the movie
doesn't look even vaguely the way I pictured a dropship to look (I
pictured a big heat shield with the main body of the ship riding on top,
so that it could skip off the atmosphere as it dropped the trooper
landing pods- but with no power suits or landing pods in the movie, that
idea was obviously a non-starter. As should have been the movie
itself.); the movie one: http://www.starshipmodeler.com/Other/stroop.htm
looks like something a bug could destroy just by farting at it, which
may explain quite a bit. Pity something big and scary doesn't fart fiery
plasma at Paul Verhoeven one of these days...maybe as she ages,
Elizabeth Berkley will put on weight... ;-)

Pat

In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote:
I think the "On the Bounce" part might.
Page 6 of the paperback, but that's my old faltering eyes talking.

Does this mean we get a shirt or something?

Nope. That wasn't the exact phrase used in the posting.
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In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote:
"homopolar generators"? Sounds like a gay sex toy.

...were working on it to drive lasers and rail guns.

The thing they carefully never mentioned in the press releases was that a
big rack full of truck batteries actually worked better, delivering the
same output with less mass and much lower cost. The homopolar-generator
guys kept promising that the *next* version was going to do better...

The experimental railgun at Eglin AFB ran off a big shed full of Sears
Die-Hards.
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On 17 Jan 2004 05:06:07 GMT, "Jorge R. Frank"
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I don't know what the hell a "homopolar generator" is,

....Actually, it's what the elves use to keep Santa warm when the Mrs.
is holding out on him.

OM

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"OM" Owa tagu siam aka DosCojones aka blue man wrote:
"Jorge R. Frank" wrote:

I don't know what the hell a "homopolar generator" is,

Cool story actually
http://www.distinti.com/publications...inalriddle.htm

...Actually, it's what the elves use to keep Santa warm when the Mrs.
is holding out on him.

You da expurt JerOMe. Try addressing the issue.

You are obviously referring to a child's erector set; which is something for
which you are constantly compensating.


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In article , Jorge R. Frank wrote:

I think the "On the Bounce" part might.

Page 6 of the paperback, but that's my old faltering eyes talking.

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Andrew Gray wrote:

Twenty-odd appearances, courtesy of a reference electronic copy and a
search function g


I'm thinkin' a whole ****in' _rack_ of t-shirts!

Pat

"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
...
even
having seen Verhoeven's wretched movie

Better known as the CGI Artist Workfare Experiment.

It could have stood on its own, and completely avoided soiling Heinlein's
work.

"Scott Hedrick" wrote in
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"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
...
even
having seen Verhoeven's wretched movie

Better known as the CGI Artist Workfare Experiment.

It could have stood on its own, and completely avoided soiling Heinlein's
work.

Yeah, once they decided not to attempt to animate the powered suits, they
could have just changed all the names and avoided the royalty payments to
the Heinlein estate.


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