On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

It just occurred to me that this could also match E E 'Doc' Smith's
"Chaytors", described as engines that tap the energy of the expanding
universe.

I've never [yet] read an E.E. Smith book. But it just occurred to me that if you say "Chaytors" out loud, it sounds rather a bit like "Cheaters." :)

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester (fictional monster hunter portrayed by Jensen Ackles)

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.