I remember reading a SF novel many years ago about a brown dwarf star that was passing through our solar system. On the surface of this small and ultra dense star life had evolved. They were little (compared to us) worm thingies that could travel along the "magnetic" fields that covered the surface.
They evolved very quickly, infact they lived in a "much faster" time than humans, with their life span being just minutes in our time.
Anyhow, eventually they saw a "new star" around their planet (brown dwarf) which as a human ship come to visit it and study it as it passed through our star system.
Now, I could be right off track here, but from memory, it was these little things that called us "big ugly bags mostly water" when they were visiting our ship.
But, my memory is never reliable at the best of times, so I could be compeltly wrong with this. Anyone know?
What was the name of this novel by the way? Does anyone know that?
...was the thing for me. Staying up till midnight so you can be the first to get in with the next days turns and overtake a few more countries in Global War, then boasting about your mighty empire via a FidoNet post. Ahhh, those were the days.
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I remember reading a SF novel many years ago about a brown dwarf star that was passing through our solar system. On the surface of this small and ultra dense star life had evolved. They were little (compared to us) worm thingies that could travel along the "magnetic" fields that covered the surface.
They evolved very quickly, infact they lived in a "much faster" time than humans, with their life span being just minutes in our time.
Anyhow, eventually they saw a "new star" around their planet (brown dwarf) which as a human ship come to visit it and study it as it passed through our star system.
Now, I could be right off track here, but from memory, it was these little things that called us "big ugly bags mostly water" when they were visiting our ship.
But, my memory is never reliable at the best of times, so I could be compeltly wrong with this. Anyone know?
What was the name of this novel by the way? Does anyone know that?
(waves hand) "You will sell me these goods." :)
See, thats the problem. It is underrated because I am as yet to find another person who loved the movie and thinks the world of it like i do.
"Big as the Ocean" your movie was. ;)
1967... Cool Hand Luke.
THE classic movie of all time. I LOVED that movie. :)
You go girl!!!
Work with me on this one.
The release is trojaned.
The first guy to be openly curious about it in the wild is Mav. Out of the tens of thousands that might have gotten it alredy.
Mav goes and seeks input from his mate Sarge.
Sarge just happens to be the owner of the box that is the callback for this trojan.
Mav posts to slashdot, giving some of the discovery credit to Sarge.
I am just asking, exactly how unlikely do the odds have to be before you got to accept that it is obviously something more than freak coincidence.
Nathan...
...was the thing for me. Staying up till midnight so you can be the first to get in with the next days turns and overtake a few more countries in Global War, then boasting about your mighty empire via a FidoNet post. Ahhh, those were the days.
In all fairness, this is all you have to do to have XP work perfectly.
1: Ensure ALL hardware is recognised and supported by XP drivers.
2: Install OEM!!! Blank fresh system. DO NOT UPGRADE!!!
3: Do not install ANY software or hardware unless it has the "Designed for XP" logo on it.
I have done this, and it works like a dream.