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Traveller-digest           Saturday, 27 July 1996       Volume 1996 : Number 293

(R)1996. Traveller is a registered trademark of FarFuture Enterprises.
All rights reserved.

The following topics are covered in this digest:

         1. none
         2. Nitpick, nitpick, nitpick...
         3. Re: Deckplans, et alia.

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From: gdw.support@genie.com
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 96 02:26:00 UTC 0000
Subject: none

Steve Charlton said:

> Was there ever a French translation of Traveller?

Nothing official, that I know of. Marc would know for certain, as he
made it a point of personal pride to get copies of every official
translation.

> I have the spanish-language version of the Traveller Book,
> and I have seen a German version.  What other languages were used?

Japanese. There was a Finnish translation of several books in the
Twilight: 2000 series, but I don't know if they did Traveller.



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From: Wes Payne <n9548326@cc.wwu.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 20:58:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Nitpick, nitpick, nitpick...

Thus spake shadow@krypton.rain.com (Leonard Erickson):

> A lot of these things are *toxic*, which is a different matter. Arsenic
> is 30 times more toxic than plutonium. 

I might have read the Guiness Book of World Records wrong, but I think 
that it's the other way 'round.  Plutonium is the most toxic material 
known (or at least was in 1985 or so).  Of course, it's got lots of other 
nasty properties, too.  For instance, it's so reactive that it'll spark 
on contact with other metals.  If it's being machined, it must occur in 
an inert gas atmosphere to keep the shavings from bursting into flame on 
contact with oxygen.  Once it's burning, it's damn hard to extinguish.

Of course, lots of elements at the bottom of the periodic chart are nasty 
like that.
 
We now return you to whatever relevant discussion was already in progress...

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From: "Stuart L. Dollar" <sdollar@goodnet.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 21:58:23 -0800
Subject: Re: Deckplans, et alia.

On 26 Jul 96 at 5:19, Leonard Erickson spewed:

> In mail you write:
> 
> > Not that I know of, but it _is_ possible, I suppose.
> 
> Well, all the SF & Fantasy games pretty much prove the point.
> The "spy" type games may or may not be "geeky". Toon is *beyond* geeky.

I hate to tell you this...but most people regard SF & Fantasy as 
geeky...  

They didn't invent the term 'technogeek' without a reason...  ;-)

Stu 
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" -Isaac Asimov, from "Foundation"
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