Nit-picking

I have been rereading _The Apocalypse Troll_ and have a
few nits I have noticed in it.

Milla explains her extra strength by the fact that she
is from a planet where the gravity is about 20% higher
than Earth's. Then later she says that one attraction
for tourists is that her planets bugs don't bite humans.
I'm not sure how many tourists you are going to get to
a planet with higher gravity. I suppose you can get
some of the macho types that want to show they can take it.

Milla implies that normal women don't dare have children
with thuselah children, because they will almost surely
die. This suggests that there is no way to tell which
ones can survive the infection of the symbiont. I
should think it wouldn't be too hard to develop a test
to tell which ones could survive it, and become
thuselahs themselves.

When they go to repair Milla's suit they just hook it up
to a reactor's output and let it go. They tend to gloss
over the technical details of the hook up. We are
talking about the output of a nuclear reactor. I did a
quick check and there are some units that put out about
1 Gigawatt. Assuming we are talking about transmission
line voltages then cross country lines here in the US
run up to about 800,000 volts. Rounding that up to 1
Megavolt we would then be talking about 1000 amps. This
is not going to be a simple walk up and plug it in kind
of a connection. There are some severe technical
problems in connecting that kind of service to a wire
that can be coiled up in a boot heel.

I said they were nits.

Bill Gill

BillGill wrote:
> I have been rereading _The Apocalypse Troll_ and have a few nits I have
> noticed in it.
>
> Milla explains her extra strength by the fact that she is from a planet
> where the gravity is about 20% higher than Earth's. Then later she says
> that one attraction for tourists is that her planets bugs don't bite
> humans. I'm not sure how many tourists you are going to get to a planet
> with higher gravity. I suppose you can get some of the macho types that
> want to show they can take it.
>
> Milla implies that normal women don't dare have children with thuselah
> children, because they will almost surely die. This suggests that there
> is no way to tell which ones can survive the infection of the symbiont.
> I should think it wouldn't be too hard to develop a test to tell which
> ones could survive it, and become thuselahs themselves.
>
> When they go to repair Milla's suit they just hook it up to a reactor's
> output and let it go. They tend to gloss over the technical details of
> the hook up. We are talking about the output of a nuclear reactor. I
> did a quick check and there are some units that put out about 1
> Gigawatt. Assuming we are talking about transmission line voltages then
> cross country lines here in the US run up to about 800,000 volts.
> Rounding that up to 1 Megavolt we would then be talking about 1000
> amps. This is not going to be a simple walk up and plug it in kind of a
> connection. There are some severe technical problems in connecting that
> kind of service to a wire that can be coiled up in a boot heel.
>

Don't know, Marty McFly ran 1.21 gigawatts through a hook with a thin
little cable and a couple of big alligator clips.