Re: TML nightly: Msgs 5820-5824 V59#2 (msg 5821)

>Bundle: 483
>Archive-Message-Number: 5821
>Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 21:29:20 -0700
>From: [email removed] (nosnhoJ enaD)
>Subject: Kindly ignore my last message...
>
>
> ...'Cause it was supposed to go to the pocket-empire list, not this one...
>Since I'm here, though, I seem to remember a reference (in a MegaTrav
>supplement) that indicated that the original Vargr (?) jump drives
>didn't use Lanthanum, but some other, inferior, rare earth
>element...Anybody else remember this and, if so, was it indeed the Vargr
>and what was the element?  I scanned through Cogs & Dogs, but didn't
>unearth anything :/
>
>Dane
>
Wasn't it barium? I recall some ancient spacer joke about the best thing
to do with a Vargr jump-drive ("bury 'em"). Hmmm ... how does this pun
translate into Galanglic? Is Galanglic still part of TNE?
 -  Arthur Green
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