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Re: [B7L] B7 movie
by J MacQueen 27 May '01

27 May '01

>From: Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson(a)mcr1.poptel.org.uk> >Andrew Sewell also said he had the rights to the DVDs and their launch was >only >a possibility. Sally, it sounds like some gentle persuasion is in order. Time to get out...the curling wand and the hairdryer! Regards Joanne _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: Blakes7 digest, Vol 1 #485 - 12 msgs
by Anna 27 May '01

27 May '01

Hi, all. > > Otis Lou Bohr wrote: > > > >On the other hand Americans' obliviousness to everything outside > >their borders is the Canadian media's primary source of humour (;-p). Then Susan Beth quipped: > Hey, I'm pretty good at Canada, know all the provinces, or as some > think of them, future US states 51-60. ;-) Hey, I remember a Wayne and Shuster skit, about us gaining an 11th province... the U.S.! <vwveg> But seriously, if Canada truly was taken over by the U.S., then it wouldn't be an extra 10 states, since I'm sure Quebec would insist on separating! ObB7: I find Avon the most fascinating character of the crew, because his actions can be interpreted two ways. > Susan Beth (susanbeth33(a)mindspring.com) Anna

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Re: [B7L] Re: Eclectic
by Steve Kilbane 27 May '01

27 May '01

Susan Beth noted: > Let's see, how fast do your trains go? Assume around 90, so about 100 > miles.... More like 5mph, with the current speed restrictions. > heck, that's hardly worth *mentioning*. I know a girl in > Colorado who drives 70 miles every week or so just to reach the nearest > movie theater. ;-) Yeah, but chances are, those 70 miles of road are probably a damn sight safer than the British rail system in recent years. steve

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B7 movie
by Steve Rogerson 27 May '01

27 May '01

Andrew Sewell was speaking about the planned B7 movie at Eclectic this weekend. The delay has been that the script has undergone a rewrite because he wasn't happy with it. When that's sorted, he is confident that he will get funding to make the movie, which he hopes will then lead to a new Blake's 7 series. The plan is for it still to be set 20 years after Gauda Prime. -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson "In my world, there are people in chains and you can ride them like ponies" The alternative Willow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Re: [B7L] Re: Eclectic
by Pherber＠aol.com 27 May '01

27 May '01

In a message dated 5/26/01 5:55:59 AM Mountain Daylight Time, susanbeth33(a)pop.mindspring.com writes: > Let's see, how fast do your trains go? Assume around 90, so about 100 > miles.... heck, that's hardly worth *mentioning*. I know a girl in > Colorado who drives 70 miles every week or so just to reach the nearest > movie theater. ;-) > <grin> I just hope traveling around Britain has more entertaining scenery than we have on the plains of Colorado! Nina

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Re: Eclectic
by Steve Rogerson 26 May '01

26 May '01

Susan Beth said: "so about 100 miles.... heck, that's hardly worth *mentioning*" Didn't someone once say that the main difference between Brits and Americans is that Americans think 100 years is a long time and the British think 100 miles is a long way? -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson "In my world, there are people in chains and you can ride them like ponies" The alternative Willow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Re: [B7L] Shields
by Ellynne G. 26 May '01

26 May '01

On Sat, 26 May 2001 09:12:37 -0700 Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson(a)mcr1.poptel.org.uk> writes: > Some thoughts on shields from a breakfast discussion at Eclectic. > > The question is really do shields stand up to scientific analysis? > I'm > afraid my science isn't good enough to answer that, so we thought > we'd > throw it open to the list. According to the book, The Physics of Star Trek, maybe. If I remember this right (and assuming I understood any of it in the first place, which I'm not sure I did), start with artificial gravity (and will the real physicists not laugh at me). Gravity is supposed to be a warping in space time caused by mass. Theoretically, you could make an artificial warping through various applications of large amounts of energy. This is also the idea the author went with for warp speed (which ties into the shields). If you just go by the basic three dimensions, faster than light travel is not possible. If, however, you go by four dimensions, including time as a factor, you'll find that light moves faster in some places than in others because gravity effects relativity - the one second that light travels at 186,000 miles in one corner of space is actually more time and, consequently, more distance relative to another corner of space. Hence, if you have artificial gravity, you should be able to create an artificial warping of space time where your light speed is actually faster than the light around you (or that's what the book said). And, if you can create this artificial bubble of space time, you should be able to create an artificial bubble of space time where gravity - which does effect light - can create a kind of shield so that an energy ray or other weapon is not so much deflected as it is working on a different definition of a straight line than the rest of the nearby universe. Or something like that. Oh, and this would take more energy than the Earth's used in its entire, 4 billion year history. The other theory is just that you're able to somehow put energy up in some kind of shield that the bad guys' weapons can't get through. Exact rules unknown but it probably has something to do with the static that builds up on computer screens and TV sets (which means, even though they don't talk about it, Vila probably has to go out and clean off the dust every once in while, although how a shield would deflect weapons and collect dust is beyond me). > > The first point is how do shields work? Also, different SF > programmes > vary on whether you can fire your own weapons when the shields are > up. > Could a shield be only one way in that it will stop incoming fire > but > allow outgoing fire to pass through? Going with the static theory, sure. It's like magnets (I know, I know, it was like static a second ago. This is that unified field theorem thingy where all energy types flow together [which is the writer's way of saying "If it sounds good, use it and ignore the contradictions"]), the negative charge on one end repels the same magnet that the other end would attract. So, one end of the shield pushes away the energy weapons while the other end pulls them through. Why don't they use weapons with a different charge? Hey, I didn't say this was an _exact_ metaphor, did I? It's just a comparison to make things easier for laymen. The real thing is much more complicated. There are good and solid reasons why you can't do that (such as no one ever thinking of it). If it's the gravity thing, I guess you could always shoot at really weird angles. > > We learn from Harvest that the Liberator has overlapping shields - > what's that about? Why couldn't it have just one big shield? Is > there an > advantage to overlapping shields? Maybe to allow weapon fire? I always thought it was shields being generated at different parts of the ship, but maybe it's extra protection in case Travis ever does think of shooting with a different charge (although how to shoot _out_ past the different charges, some pulling, some repelling, is a mystery. Maybe more weird angles are involved?). It might also be that shooting is like a story I heard about WW I pilots. They used to shoot off their own propellers till someone synchronized the guns with the blades so they could only fire when the bullet would miss the blade. In other words, yes, if that's the case, they have to drop the shields instead of work on angles or mutilated physics. It would also mean that several ships able to keep up a continual bombardment would have the advantage over a single ship - a greater chance of getting in a hit during the fraction of a second the shields were down - which means three pursuit ships might be a real worry to the Liberator regardless of relative strength. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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Trust
by Leia Fee 26 May '01

26 May '01

Marian said... >>I always thought Tarrant's words meant that he could pick up Vila and haul >>him to the airlock before the others could intervene, rather than that they >>would stand by and let him kill Vila. He says, "The others wouldn't stop me, and you couldn't could you?" It implies that he expects the others to let him get rid of Vila. I don't know if he really beleives they *would* let or if he's just trying to scare Vila into doing what he's told but either way Vila seems to believe him. I don't think the others would have let Tarrant dump Vila but Tarrant does seem quite supried at their reaction to his bulling Vila into going down. Leia

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Re: [B7L] Eclectic
by Susan Beth 26 May '01

26 May '01

Katharine Woods wrote: > >And my Mum had some friends who had a daughter >who was flying to Canada to spend a year out. They contacted >some Canadian friends who lived in Vancouver and >asked if they could meet the daughter when she >arrived in Toronto. The terse response from the Canadian >friends was "You meet her. You're nearer." > LOL. Yep, the old, "Oh, you live in New York, do you now my friend whosie?" problem. We hosted several foreign exchange students over the years, and one French girl was putting on airs about how her family had vacationed in six or seven European countries as she grew up and what sticks in the mud we were since our family had only gone to Mexico and Canada. After consulting an atlas we figured out that the eight states our family had *lived in* over a similar period covered a much greater geographic area than all her travels. ;-) Susan Beth (susanbeth33(a)mindspring.com)

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Re: Eclectic
by Steve Rogerson 26 May '01

26 May '01

Susan Beth wrote: "You know, I am going to have to put up a wall-sized map of England and do some studying. I don't know if you've just accomplished the equivalent of a trip from New York to Dallas, or a shuttle hop from Boston to Washington, D.C." Nothing major. I live in London, and Leicester is about an hour and ten minutes by train from London, going almost due north. -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson "In my world, there are people in chains and you can ride them like ponies" The alternative Willow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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