Re: GEVs/Grav

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 08:43:21 -0000, "Tim Jones"
<Tim.Jones@Smallworld.co.uk>
wrote:

>In 'The Warrior' Slick attacks from a 
>hill top fire base and the tank gets driven into 
>several gullies but still keeps going, though I 
>think the driver is constrained by the terrain 
>in the story. The thought of a 150 tonne hockey
>puck running down a 1:6 slope doesn't sound 
>that controllable even with fusion powered fans.

Well, someone mentioned that Gibson wasn't much of a technologist.
Neither is
Drake. *L* The books are fun, but he should have used anti-grav instead
of
ground effect. 

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@interlog.com
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