I believe this is the right stock:
Symbol: TMLN.OB
Market: OTC BB
Industry: Software & Programming
Change: +0.39 (+33.91%)
Coincidence?
Course, Microsoft's it up 55 cents (2.28%) as well.
As the lone desenting voice in the crowd, I must say that although it's been many years, I remember enjoying Footfall. Granted I haven't read Lucifer's Hammer, so I'm not familiar with the similarities.
I seem to remember finding the "pack mentality" of the aliens vs the "indiviuality" of the humans and interesting conflict. I think that it is somewhat concievable that, in the end, whoever learned to think like the other first might win such a confrontation. That is unless the one with the higher tech didn't just destroy the planet and move on (which the aliens sure as Hell could have done).
I thougth the Thors (think that's what they were called, crowbar sized objects dropped from orbit with just enough inteligence to recognize shapes and adjust toward them) were more interesting than Orion. THOSE were smart bombs. Still think they'd be a good idea if lifting them into space didn't cost so much. I don't know that they'd hit with quite as much force as the authors described, but hey, cool idea.
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I believe this is the right stock: Symbol: TMLN.OB Market: OTC BB Industry: Software & Programming Change: +0.39 (+33.91%) Coincidence? Course, Microsoft's it up 55 cents (2.28%) as well.
As the lone desenting voice in the crowd, I must say that although it's been many years, I remember enjoying Footfall. Granted I haven't read Lucifer's Hammer, so I'm not familiar with the similarities. I seem to remember finding the "pack mentality" of the aliens vs the "indiviuality" of the humans and interesting conflict. I think that it is somewhat concievable that, in the end, whoever learned to think like the other first might win such a confrontation. That is unless the one with the higher tech didn't just destroy the planet and move on (which the aliens sure as Hell could have done). I thougth the Thors (think that's what they were called, crowbar sized objects dropped from orbit with just enough inteligence to recognize shapes and adjust toward them) were more interesting than Orion. THOSE were smart bombs. Still think they'd be a good idea if lifting them into space didn't cost so much. I don't know that they'd hit with quite as much force as the authors described, but hey, cool idea.