You fill me with inertia.
“Right. We aren’t traveling at all now.” Rodebush replied. “We are perfectly stationary relative to Tellus, since we made the hop without inertia. We must have attained one hundred percent neutralization, which we didn’t quite expect, and therefore we must have stopped instantaneously when our inertia was restored. But it isn’t where we are that is worrying me the most–we can fix our place in space accurately enough by a few observations–it’s when.”
Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.
There would never be another dog show. Not a purebred dog was left in the world. But hybrid vigor had produced a new breed. These, the ultimate mongrels, could breathe Industrial Age air, rich in oxides of carbon and nitrogen, scented with raw gasoline and sulfuric acid.
They’re immune to the conventional toxicants.
“All right, we got seven canisters of CN-20. I say we roll them in there and nerve gas the whole fucking nest.”
"That’s worth a try, but we don’t know if it’s gonna affect them. "
I don’t believe it. Guns that work.
Maxim 24: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun
Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.
So, Mr. Seligman, that’s why I won’t take you to that period to hunt. There are plenty of other eras, and if you look them over I’m sure you’ll find something to suit you. But not the Jurassic or the Cretaceous. You’re just not big enough to handle a gun for dinosaur.
I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns.
If I stay in the deep part of the trench, I can probably dodge their fire if they come in from the side, or duck it if they try coming straight at us.
I wouldn’t stress about it.
I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
There is a word for how I felt…terrified.
The Word for World Is Forest
Except they don’t have a word for pond. The only water in the forest is the river.
"I won’t dress them down for flooding our ship. I will, however, turn on the wave machine. we’re lifting off now.
“Then we will be able to take off!”
“Yes, but we can’t repair the Wave Motion Gun.”
For, that last defense gone, nothing save unresisting metal was left to withstand the ardor of those ultra-powerful, ravening beams. As has already been said, no substance, no matter how refractory or resistant or inert, can endure even momentarily in such a field of force. Therefore every atom, alike of vessel and of contents, went to make up the searing, seething burst of brilliant, incandescently luminous vapor which suffused all circumambient space.