... Useful--and a tad too magical. Us authorial types have to be wary of machines that can do everything and anything, as it makes Swift inventing either...
Ah, the Repeltron, a ridiculously amazing device. But then it did lead to the Repelatron Skyway. You gotta love a skyway over a jungle suspended by invisible...
... Scott echoes my opinion. I tend to divide the Tom Swift books into BR and AR (Before and After Repelatron) and have allowed the device to be used only on...
The trouble with the Repelatron was that once you had it, it could be used for all kinds of useful stuff, that they never bothered with. It pretty much made...
... lead to the Repelatron Skyway. You gotta love a skyway over a jungle suspended by invisible beams. Which has resulted in "Repelatron Skyway" having one of...
I dunno. Even as a kid I thought there HAD to be an easier way around that swamp. :) Easy? but its a highway, a highway in the sky! Jon Luc Picard: I'm...
... In the later books Tom had replaced the Sky Queen's jet lifters with repelatrons, and there was a version of the Pigeon Special light plane that had a...
... Uh...he did. Picard would surrender at the drop of a hat, to anyone armed with anything bigger than a pop-gun. (Of course for Voyager, they tried to get a...
... All right, those that make this type of comment seem to have forgotten that the western front in World War I was essentially a defense of Paris....
... I always liked that one too, but tell me, why the giant S-bend in the roadway? Was Tom paid by the mile? Charlie Campbell P.S. I once took a cab uptown...
... And of course Picard was more of a traitor than a coward, actively helping the enemy at every chance, and murdering his own crewmen. Sisko should have...
... IIRC the repelatrons supplemented, not replaced, the jet lifters, since they went back and forth as to which the Queen had. But, yeah, the Triphibian...
... You gotta put in bends every once in a while, or the drivers start falling asleep at the wheel. You may also put in bends like that to control speed. A...
... I've been watching CSI MIAMI this summer, partly because nothing else is on, partly because it looks so purty on our new HD TV, and partly because it's one...
... Bet you ain't never seen the i5. ... AH-ha, you've watched Ice Road Truckers on the History Channel (not a great show, but is worth watching an episode for...
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Still, the S curve on the cover seems a bit extreme: Perhaps, but its fits on the cover! and whats more its the first letter in Tom's last name. Tom was simply...
... It would have been good to ... Challenger ... limited ... My problem is how they were used. Yeah, make a spaceship that uses repelatrons and it works. Now...
I suspect the way Tom Jr. was going he could've eventually taken on Star Fleet single handed. Kind of like the way Perry Rhodan took over the world. "The Swift...
on 8/2/07 2:19 PM, RUSSELL RUBERT at ruberto53@... wrote: Still, the S curve on the cover seems a bit extreme: Perhaps, but its fits on the cover! and...
... Yep, the inconsistent 'kick' -- sometimes they had opposite and equal reactions, and sometimes they didn't. I flipped through REPELATRON SKYWAY last night,...
... that he ... when all ... I kept thinking about that scene when Tom gives the village chief (or medicine man) a portable player with music that he could...
... You'd need an airship for something like that. :) The Jules Verne Forum (http://jv.gilead.org.il/forum/) has had some discussions of doing an amateur...
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... Being a Mac person since 1985 (not a single virus or spyware in all that time), I mainly am aware of the programs for that platform (eg iMovie, FinalCut, ...
