flying helis at gravity 9.8 you like it?

[Vikki]

Make it a cylinder and rotate it. It's been used in sci-fi.. if memory serves the asteroid ceres was heated to melting and then injected with gas to expand the molten mess into such a sphere and rotated.. then used as a pregnancy and maternity clinic for humans colonising the asteroid belt..

Ah! A Larry Niven reader. Beowulf Schaeffer, the belters. TANJ, what's 'is name - the one that hung around with Nessus, the Hindmost, the big kitty... Louis Woo, that's the fella. Confinement asteroid. Very clever.

Vikki.

[Vikki]

On Jupiter the big squat beings with 30 treetrunk legs fly their helis with a battery the size of you finger nail and with the output of 4 nuclear power stations and they still moan they only get 5 minutes flight. Me want one o' them batteries (but I wouldn't fight one for it, not on my my turf, deffo not on theirs).

[trillian]

Sooo...not on the dark side or where the poles are? ..place is full of loonies <exits at a run...>

Just not where the kids hang around outside KFC in their hoodie spacesuits at all hours drinking that cheap Moon-brew and looking for trouble. It's bound to go that way eventually. There will be 'no go' areas on the moon and the nice bits will be too expensive.

[pgkevet]

Just not where the kids hang around outside KFC in their hoodie spacesuits at all hours drinking that cheap Moon-brew and looking for trouble. It's bound to go that way eventually. There will be 'no go' areas on the moon and the nice bits will be too expensive.

Yup! That's the Mare Inebrium.. was always gonna be an issue; followed by how high can I pee and how far can I vomit.

Next time I publish my manifesto for election then places like KFC will be on it for banning. There's nothing wrong wih fast food as such... just I'd insist it was made on he premises from real meat or real chicken ..not some hormone and water injected import reject parts. Personal biggest hate is coffee house chains: overpriced, haven't found one with a coffee I'd be prepared to pay for..full of conceited and pretentious customers and staff...and giving the coffee-maker a title!

My wife insists on buying coffee whenever we go out - irritates the heck out of me to pay that much for rubbish so I just sit across with a glass of tap referring to the coffee cowboy as barry <rant over>

Incidentally the telegraph failed to publish my last manifesto - all I got was a postcard of acknowledgement.

[trillian]

Personal biggest hate is coffee house chains: overpriced, haven't found one with a coffee I'd be prepared to pay for..full of conceited and pretentious customers and staff...and giving the coffee-maker a title!

My wife insists on buying coffee whenever we go out - irritates the heck out of me to pay that much for rubbish so I just sit across with a glass of tap referring to the coffee cowboy as barry <rant over>

If my La Pavoni lever machine was more portable (and battery powered) I wouldn't have to get my fix at these various coffee houses when I'm out and about but such are the primitive times in which we live. I bet I would get some strange looks on the train pulling a shot of espresso. I bet no one would want to sit next to me.

[pgkevet]

If my La Pavoni lever machine was more portable (and battery powered) I wouldn't have to get my fix at these various coffee houses when I'm out and about but such are the primitive times in which we live. I bet I would get some strange looks on the train pulling a shot of espresso. I bet no one would want to sit next to me.

Thermos

[trillian]

Thermos

But where's the fun in that

[pgkevet]

But where's the fun in that

That bit's easy... go into coffee-shoppe, buy cheap bun, sit down, open thermos.....

[maddog7]

I love Futura SE, He genuinely makes me laugh , the RC flying saucers thing nearly had me off my chair!
It's therefore no surprise that the last few posts in this thread bear little relation to the OP!
I wouldn't have been happy if they did!
I love the fact that it takes all sorts and that RCHA helps make it possible!

D

[dillwhacker]

Oh freckelled grunt-buggly, thy micturations are to me as purdelled gabble blotchits on a lurgid be.
GROOP!!
I emplore thee my fonting turlingdrones...
From memory, sorry....