Those who have a library of back issues of Model Railroader and The Short Line And Narrow Gauge Gazette are invited to look up "unobtanium" - lunar railroad layout published in the 60's - and "craddonium" - The Degelbeef and Craddonia Railroad - published in the 90's.

Craddonium is especially interesting as it is both a major ingredient in the manufacture of powerful explosives and a foodstuff.

GERN flux is seeming to be very special substance with many fine properties and wide types of uses. This Craddonium sounds like a same idea, only not so much so. I of course have not seen these magazines you name; you could perhaps start a new thread with more details? I think for fantasy products, food is good choice, but maybe not so good for explosives. Better to laugh than to fight. :mrgreen:

Slodko

A shipment of Fluxanium Slurry, about to go "intergalactic".....
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Seems an awful small cargo capacity for that type of vessel...

That cargo bay looks like it's fitted with a GERN QM-3 Condensor Unit: once the hatch is secured, that container will be reduced to a size 3% less than nothing.

Some folks think that GERN is "out of step" with the world of technology, but that's only because those folks are 3%-of-a-step behind.


Cookie

Charles Wrote:That cargo bay looks like it's fitted with a GERN QM-3 Condensor Unit: once the hatch is secured, that container will be reduced to a size 3% less than nothing.

Some folks think that GERN is "out of step" with the world of technology, but that's only because those folks are 3%-of-a-step behind.


Cookie

Still a small load, since opening the hatch to load another container would automatically blow up the previous load to a size 3% greater than it was to begin with. 8-)

Some of us are actually 3% ahead of the pack.

Takes a lot of power to actualy exceed light speed, so a large chunk of the ship is taken up by fuel and the engines - even granting the use of Gern Flux products to increase engine output and decrease fuel requirements.

--Randy

rrinker Wrote:Takes a lot of power to actualy exceed light speed, so a large chunk of the ship is taken up by fuel and the engines - even granting the use of Gern Flux products to increase engine output and decrease fuel requirements.

--Randy

Sounds like a job for Craddonium and Unobtainium... 8-)

MountainMan Wrote:

rrinker Wrote:Takes a lot of power to actualy exceed light speed, so a large chunk of the ship is taken up by fuel and the engines - even granting the use of Gern Flux products to increase engine output and decrease fuel requirements.

--Randy

Sounds like a job for Craddonium and Unobtainium... 8-)

What do you think they make those engines out of in the first place?

rrinker Wrote:What do you think they make those engines out of in the first place?

Walt Disneyium... 8-)

MountainMan Wrote:

Charles Wrote:That cargo bay looks like it's fitted with a GERN QM-3 Condensor Unit: once the hatch is secured, that container will be reduced to a size 3% less than nothing.

Some folks think that GERN is "out of step" with the world of technology, but that's only because those folks are 3%-of-a-step behind.


Cookie

Still a small load, since opening the hatch to load another container would automatically blow up the previous load to a size 3% greater than it was to begin with. 8-)

Some of us are actually 3% ahead of the pack.

Oh, my, the innocence of youth. The experimental QM Condensors did suffer from that malady, my boy, as you so astutely deduced, but production models were fitted with a "STORAGE" mode, which allows the hatch to be re-opened without fear of any such occurrence. The latest versions, QM-3.1 and later, allow the reduction to take place with the hatch open. Unloading is simplified, too, in that any unit of condensed lading may be accessed, regardless of the order of loading, at the stroke of a key.
It should be obvious, especially to a bright lad such as yourself, that with these capabilities, there's no limit, other than common sense, to the amount of material which can be carried.
One difficulty which hasn't been mentioned is the weight factor. Obviously, with the material transformed to 3% less than nothing in volume, its weight is altered in a like manner. With a large intake of thusly reduced cargo, the vehicle itself will decrease in gross weight in inverse proportion to that of the cargo taken on, adversely affecting the handling of said vehicle. To counteract this phenomenon, GERN scientists developed a MASS Accumulating Gravitational Equaliser, which can be used to separate the weight component from select units of cargo whilst it undergoes the volume reduction, thus maintaining the vehicle's weight at it's original (tare) figure. Cargo thus treated is said to be, in the vernacular, MASSAGEd.

Cookie

Charles Wrote:Oh, my, the innocence of youth. The experimental QM Condensors did suffer from that malady, my boy, as you so astutely deduced, but production models were fitted with a "STORAGE" mode, which allows the hatch to be re-opened without fear of any such occurrence. The latest versions, QM-3.1 and later, allow the reduction to take place with the hatch open. Unloading is simplified, too, in that any unit of condensed lading may be accessed, regardless of the order of loading, at the stroke of a key.
It should be obvious, especially to a bright lad such as yourself, that with these capabilities, there's no limit, other than common sense, to the amount of material which can be carried.
One difficulty which hasn't been mentioned is the weight factor. Obviously, with the material transformed to 3% less than nothing in volume, its weight is altered in a like manner. With a large intake of thusly reduced cargo, the vehicle itself will decrease in gross weight in inverse proportion to that of the cargo taken on, adversely affecting the handling of said vehicle. To counteract this phenomenon, GERN scientists developed a MASS Accumulating Gravitational Equaliser, which can be used to separate the weight component from select units of cargo whilst it undergoes the volume reduction, thus maintaining the vehicle's weight at it's original (tare) figure. Cargo thus treated is said to be, in the vernacular, MASSAGEd.

Cookie

Geeze, I was going to say the exact same thing, lucky I read your post first or mine would have been repetitious. You did fail to mention though that they had lost a few of these ships that floated away before they got the weight/load/equalizing factor ratio calculations correct. They reported them as weather balloons when they were spotted heading into orbit. I'm told that only 3% of these people believe the official story.

Charles, my good friend, are you by any chance related to Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard?? (of NCIS fame, as well as Ilya Kuriakin of Man Frrom U.N.C.L.E. fame??) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

sgtcarl1 Wrote:Charles, my good friend, are you by any chance related to Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard?? (of NCIS fame, as well as Ilya Kuriakin of Man Frrom U.N.C.L.E. fame??) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Although I knew his dear Mother well, my lawyers were able to have that paternity suit tossed from the courts with little difficulty. Against their advice, I did proffer some financial assistance for the little tyke, though, and became, to him, Uncle Cookie. While I'm forbidden to disclose the actual amount, suffice it to say it was less than eight figures - a trifling amount to counterbalance the actions of the cruel cad who abandoned them in their hour of need.

Cookie (I'm no crumb)