From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V98 #273 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume98/273 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 273 Today's Topics: [B7L] Teleport [B7L] Goose Pimples! Re: [B7L] Re: Three drabbles Re: [B7L] Project Avalon [B7L] unsubcribe RE: [B7L] Redemption-stewards [B7L] Re: Three drabbles [B7L] religion in the B7 universe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:32:58 -0000 From: Anne Lane To: "'B7'" Subject: [B7L] Teleport Message-ID: <01BE02CC.0BA80FE0.aplane@tesco.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I sent this once, but it didn't seem to get through, so apologies if it arrives twice: On Sunday, October 25, 1998 6:28 PM, Reuben wrote: > > ---------- > >> I heard on Radio 4 the other day that someone at Bangor University had > >> invented the first teleport. Apparently he moved light(!) one metre. > >> Didn't know Wales was renowned as a great natural source of Aquitar. > > > >Radio 4's wrong anyway - a team at a German university did it in 1994/5 > > Interesting, do you know a website that has any more info on this? > The BBC news site has an informative article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_201000/201815.stm This also has a link to an IBM site which gives a more scientific run-down: http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/ They say it's not really teleporting, because it actually destroys the original and creates a copy at the other end. Sounds like they might have an ansible in the making though (for LeGuin fans). The quantum mecahnics stuff is interesting if mystifying, especially after pretending I understood it while reading Greg Egan's Diaspora! Anne ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:09:08 -0700 From: CHERYL_MARKS@HP-LakeStevens-om2.om.hp.com TO: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Goose Pimples! Message-Id: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="openmail-part-0fcbadb0-00000001" --openmail-part-0fcbadb0-00000001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="BDY.TXT" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="BDY.TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As part of my job, I was touring the Vehicle Research Institue at Western Washington University (the other Washington, home to the Pacific Northwest Rabble, not Monica Lewinsky!) They are currently developing a thermophotovoltaic generator the will produce enough power to run electric motors and eventually to replace the internal combustion engine. (The generator is more efficient than the inteneral combustion engine and almost emission free!) My jaw dropped when I walked into the lab and my arms broke out in goose pimples. It looks just like Plaxton's Star Drive! Too weird . . . Cheryl ******************************************************************************** * * Cheryl Marks Email: cheryl_marks@hp.com * Telnet: 1-335-2193 Phone: (425) 335-2193 Fax: (425) 335-2828 * Address: Hewlett-Packard, MS 90, 8600 Soper Hill Road, * Everett, WA 98205-1298 * "Never argue with a computer" -- Blake's 7 ******************************************************************************** ** --openmail-part-0fcbadb0-00000001-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 21:12:40 -0800 From: Pat Patera To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Three drabbles Message-ID: <36355648.54BA@geocities.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit K. Michael Wilcox wrote: > I also want to do some longer stories with Jenna the Vampire Slayer, > but that might be too silly. no! no! *Nothing* is too silly for fandom! I love the concept :-D Why not post a short one here in honor of the upcoming Halloween? Perhaps Vila gets mistaken for a vampire; I should love to see Jenna stalking him with a stake. Pat P ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:35:47 -0800 From: Pat Patera To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Project Avalon Message-ID: <3637D483.4BC1@geocities.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SuzanThoms@aol.com wrote: > < << Fan artist Susan Lovett did a lovely drawing of Avon as Merlin and > Servalan as the evil LeFay. It was done to illo a story in which Blake > was Arthur and Avon, as Merlin, his sharp spoken advisor. >> > > Are you referring to "The Castle and the River" in 5th SEASON #5? Indeed, the story by Jean L. Stevenson in Sheila Willis' zine series. (BTW, Shiela Willis wrote many stories for the "5th Season" zines she edited / published that featured Dayna and Avon. They make a good action pair when they are allowed to go off on missions together (as they were not allowed in canon episodes). The 5th Season zines all have good stories. >The cover illo is gorgeous but there is also a smashing > illo of Blake and Avon on the back cover that I like even better. :) hmmmm on my copy the cover shows Kier the Mage and Roje the King, while Merlin and LeFay (Avon and Servalan) are on the back cover. An exerpt to give the flavor of the tale: Kier of the River gradually lost the sounds of the others as he raced up the circling steps, dodging shadows and webs alike. His heart pounded and the Star at his forehead glowed more and more brightly as the darkness deepened. The staff in his hand proclaimed him scholar. The cloak on his back named him mage ... Blakemir was at stake ... A tiny kingdom. ... The Roje lay dying, wounded by nor mortal hand, by no sling or sword or poison or dark that could be seen by mortal eye. He had begun to fade ... Pat P ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:58:10 -0000 From: "Michael Griffin" To: Subject: [B7L] unsubcribe Message-ID: <004c01be0322$a325fde0$1046a8c2@m> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; boundary="----------------------------"; charset="iso-8859-1" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:17:36 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: RE: [B7L] Redemption-stewards Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Thu 29 Oct, Anne Lane wrote: > I haven't received the second PR yet - has everyone else? (I also didn't get > any written confirmation of registration, although my name is on the web site > membership list.) I know your Progress Report went out, because I remember noticing your name as I was sticking on stamps (because you'd contacted me about the problem with membership confirmation a week or so before). As that's gone missing as well as your original membership confirmation, I'd think the most likely explanation is that we made a mistake when reading your address on the original form and that both your membership confirmation and progress report have gone to the wrong address. Can you e-mail me your correct address and I'll sort it out for you. Judith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:07:06 -0600 From: kmwilcox@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (K. Michael Wilcox) To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: Three drabbles Message-Id: <199810292003.VAA11839@samantha.lysator.liu.se> Pat Patera wrote: > K. Michael Wilcox wrote: > > I also want to do some longer stories with Jenna the Vampire Slayer, > > but that might be too silly. > no! no! *Nothing* is too silly for fandom! > I love the concept :-D > Why not post a short one here in honor of the upcoming Halloween? > Perhaps Vila gets mistaken for a vampire; I should love to see Jenna > stalking him with a stake. Oh, if only I had time to get one out that soon. Anyway, my idea was for it to be post-"Star One", so there wouldn't be too much with Vila.... [Insert smiley here] K. M. Wilcox Aww, who knows? I may be able to do a teaser or something by Halloween. Of course, that'd commit me to more. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:43:05 EST From: Tigerm1019@aol.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] religion in the B7 universe Message-ID: <4c1c6e5e.363927b9@aol.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I've noticed that the list has been a little quiet lately (can't have that). I've been wondering about the absence of any form of religion in B7 except the Amagons and Vargas' cult. I know that the churches were destroyed by the Federation, but getting rid of the churches, temples, etc., and getting rid of all religion are two different things. For example, I can't see the Jews giving up millenia of belief and tradition which they have held on to against very long odds without some kind of fight. Likewise, other groups like many sects of Christians and the Mormons would not give up their faith and way of life easily. Judith Proctor wrote a story where the Amagons were Muslims who had left Earth to hold on to their religion; I think many other groups would have done the same. History is full of examples; the Pilgrims in New England is the one that comes most readily to my mind. I also think that some of them may have gone underground, perhaps surviving in the Delta and Gamma classes. Of course, religious belief was probably something that would earn a person a quick trip to a reeducation center if it became known. Perhaps it was one of the offences that would get someone made into a mutoid. However, it would be less likely to be noticed in the lower classes, I think. The Soviet Union tried for decades to wipe out religion (although they did set up Lenin as God) without success. Anyone care to comment? Tiger M -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V98 Issue #273 **************************************