Yep, from a story where the roads were giant conveyor belts.
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Taylor Varga (Worm/Luna Varga)
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And was, in fact, the name of one of his stories. The concept fails at the very heart of it, if only because of the speed differences between the roads and trying to step from one to another would kill and maim people (he had five MPH differences, I think, until you go to some immensely fast roads, but it was an interesting concept.
I've really got to rebuild my Heinlein collection some day. Lost too many of them in moves. And one of the books I do still have is one of my least favorite - "Friday". (Although it had my favorite of his covers, because Michael Whelan drew it.)
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Minor suggestion? Fire blanket. They don't expire.
Pity FamCo/FamTech fire-suppression stuff isn't available for IRL purchase... I don't know how Lizards would do it, but you can be pretty sure it'd be interesting...
Yeah, the timeline is a bit unclear - these guys holed up a few (?) million years before the impact - they were hiding from the big changes prior. I think the star travel was expected to take - thousands of years, possibly? Still less than a million years looking for the new home(s). So, prob still more than 65 million years real time since they found one or more places to live.
I don't recall how long Varga was out of action prior to finding Taylor, but could have had millions of years to encounter one or more of those new homes. I would think, though, that one or more of those refugee tribes would have gotten to ftl travel and come looking for Earth again. Of course, they might have - if they arrived only 100k years ago, Earth would not have looked interesting at all. And all of their ancestors were gone...
Fire eating lizards obviously. Small things, thousands of them. they drop from the ceiling when they see an uncontrolled fire, and they swarm it, tearing bits of fire off to nom on.
Saurial
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(out of character) as much as I like the side story's and other stuff that we are talking about such as the famtec fire suppression gear. When are we gonna get back to cannon. Not being mean or anything, but the last we heard of the main story is basically a weird interlude. that is basically just taylor sleep walking, while dreaming about bacon of all things. I mean what was even happening there?
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It's BACON! Why do you imply that it's not worth dreaming about?
Though it is very random, admittedly.
Clearly the Lizardz distracted the Wordz with Bacon.
Noooooo, the Author was distracted from the wordz by bacon, thus causing the lizards to be sidetracked. Lizards are *not* at fault here. Lizards are never "at fault", they just appear to be frequently near events that have suspiciously strange origins.
M. H. Fuzzball
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Judging from what Lisa showed the BBFD, it'd be a unit the size of a medium-sized fire extinguisher, that holds 5k gallons of water, with a high-flow-rate pump powered by an EDM flywheel that could also power your house for a year in an emergency.
Ace Dreamer
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You don't... think that'd make a bit of a mess of your kitchen?
M. H. Fuzzball
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I do not deny that, but the fire would be out. Fortunately, FamTech's House-In-A-Box™ is both reasonably priced, and comes in a handy travel size, so you have backup accommodations while your kitchen is being repaired.
Ace Dreamer
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I suspect... the need to swim down to the fridge would still annoy a lot of people. Also, "We wrecked your house, here's a (temporary) substitute one", might not be well received, either.
Then there's the traumatised cat. Have you had to deal with one of those? I have - you need good attention, and fast reflexes.
The (animated?) fire blanket - probably a better bet.
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M. H. Fuzzball
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Are you thinking that just because the Famtech® Fire-B-Gon™ has 5,000 gallons of water in it that it uses all 5,000 at once? You can stop it when the fire's out, you know. It's both refillable and rechargable as well. I understand there's even an option to use it as an emergency drinking water supply. Also try out their HappyCat™ brand of animate cat treats; snack and exercise in one package.
Um... that's already been covered in TV canon?
Ace Dreamer
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Not really for home use? Also, not (semi-)automatic? I'd be reluctant to use their fire brigade stuff on a fat fire in a domestic kitchen...
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I could see a vacuum bottle option. Place the nozzle at the base of the fire, squeeze the grip handle, and a 5 kilo liter EDM cylinder of absolute vacuum sucks the air and fuel away. (This system is NOT rated for use as a household cleaning apparatus.)
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Then contact Family medical services to have your eardrums replaced
Won't really work that impressively through a nozzle - the suction of a vacuum is limited to atmospheric pressure. Making it big just means it tails off slower.
Also not well suited to fires with solid fuel, or probably even sticky liquid fuel. You're essentially trying to pick up the fire with a shop-vac, here.
(Obviously, they can go the other way and give you a supermassive can of firefighting foam or inert gas under enough pressure to be used as personal flight system and/or jet cutter.) ((It might be more practical, if you must make your system egregiously excessive, to model it as a grenade instead of something the operator needs to be in contact with.))
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Either Metis or Sauriel will point that out for the laughs. That would certainly be amusing to see play out.
Dino person for president! (Wish that could be done IRL.)
Not for that reason, no. They weren't in the USA when the USA was created. Remember, when the USA was created it was much, much smaller. (Also, I don't think that actually grants citizenship on its own.)
They were in land that eventually became a US territory and later was incorporated as a state, but nothing about that grants citizenship as far as I can tell. It's possible that some particular act of congress would have accidentally granted them citizenship, but it's not a trivial claim.
LostArchivist
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Dinner and a show!
I have a feeling they're going to get weird ideas about how we greet foreign diplomats...
I am not sure she needs lizard senses. She's scary already!
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Could you clarify what exactly you meant?
Not an automatic citizenship, no. It has to be granted via specific legislation - usually through an Organic Act which would lay out a set of requirements needed to apply for citizenship. Much faster than immigration. It does disqualify them for presidency, even if they did become citizens (that's reserved for those born on US land, after all).
Ace Dreamer
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Even with all the time dilation, might it be possible a really young, just born, member of the Sleeping Family was born after the founding of the USA, and could, in theory, grow up to be president?