It was supposed to deflect space debris while the ship was travelling at high speed. That’s why it’s always on the front. A disintegrator ray would have worked just as well, and would have been more visually appealing.
Or, they could have just done the logical thing, and traveled through hyperspace like all intellegent spacefarers.
Given coments about Hobbes firing a transmogrifier from a blimp, am I to believe that he and Calvin were able to improve it from the original corrugated bio-matter enclosure?
//crackle^^…must try and reach…board getting too …#^^ Governor 3 Qui^^ is too close…%^* Must...tell Tucker--f@#@# to stop...Y% Been held prisoner …@!%6 the mob is watching! -- @- #-- – Must get in to()ch with…someone …2 make…them aw@r3…&)~ Death------Ray research has - gone,…^@*%…too far… will .f.4#FK3 contact . . >? soon…
If I recall correctly, didn’t Prof. Calvin once book himself to be at five different places at once while at MIT, and that he used that appearance to demonstrate his duplicator?
Lets say that I build myself a Death Ray. Would that be illegal, assuming I don’t kill/harm people with it? Is there any law against building a death ray (or uber-laser, etc)?
Technically, it’s not a death ray until you kill something with it. So no, you don’t have to harm people, but you’ll probably get charged with cruelty to animals.
The Zottis ran their own hamster farm, so that every ray could be certified as a death ray before it was shipped. I’m a bit surprised that Hampster hamster, who runs this board, has allowed us to continue so long.
All accusations of Prof. Calvin and public urination appears to be connected to a smear campaign run against him after death by the aging Hugo Robson, who had lost his post at UCLA to Calvin in 1971.
From the New Bedford Standard-Times, September 5, 2003:
Prof. Calvin was at Round Hill very early in his MIT career, ca. 1936, very near the end of Col. Green’s life. At about this same time, one finds news articles, also in the Standard-Times, with titles such as Sorry, ma’am, that was no seagull reporting that people were getting doused with eather significant quatities of urine. These were always in the proximity of Round Hill while the blimp was flying.
By 1971, poor old Prof. Calvin’s instances of public urination were the result of the leaky absorbant undergarments he wore later in life.
