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If you're telling us something about mating rituals in the "anonymous bar hookup" scene in Beijing...Jabberwonky wrote:I believe that rubber Nixon masks are still fairly easy to obtain...Prester Fred wrote: AmriloJim wrote:"Only Nixon could go to China."
Then how did all those other people get there?
Linear causality is for boring people.Dave wrote:Best be careful with that sort of idea. The Causality Police get very cranky when you start introducing anachronisms. The risk of a merry-go-round time loop is rather severe.
it was implied that you already HAVE access to the Library, as you won't even KNOW about it, until you know about it, and at that point it is more than likely you have access to the Library BECAUSE you know about it... and why would the formula be locked up? how did Monica get the research material she needed on the Vimana Cells... she just ASKED The Library itself...and then refined her search to facts only, sub-refined to Earth only... like i said earlier, if she could get THAT amount of info, ACCURATE FACTUAL INFO no less, on something with literally "Earth-Shattering" consequences by doing nothing more than ASKING for it, we would most definitely be able to get the Coke formula as well, with even less hassle than you'd expect as it ?should be/would be? only be a small pamphlet or even one or two pieces of paper, not the volumes and volumes that Monica had to deal with on the V-Cells (but you'd expect that from nuclear/quantum/stellar engineering texts, right?!). Nah, Phix couldn't CARE less about anything as mundane as a soft-drink recipe, so there wouldn't be any reason for her to lock that stuff up. and before you say it, Monica had not been upgraded to the Jaguar Girl yet... therefore she was acting as an "ordinary" patron of the Library... Granted, she was a person that Phix was friends with, but even SHE was unaware that Monica would become the Jaguar Girl, otherwise she wouldn't have been so shocked when she resurrected herself after the Face-Off incident... therefore, she couldn't have been giving instructions for special treatment to Monica based on her future deeds, ala' JG status...illiad wrote:ummm.., TWO problems actually! the *second* is asking Phix about it, the FIRST is getting into the library.... yeah you know exactly where the 'door' is, but it just looks like a run-down building unless you know the quantum key...jwhouk wrote:There's just one problem: it's locked in the shelves behind the reference desk. And Phix has the only key to the shelves.
Ah. I didn't realise you were talking about 'an average person in wapsiverse' - not RL.... :/scantrontb wrote:it was implied that you already HAVE access to the Library, as you won't even KNOW about it, until you know about it, and at that point it is more than likely you have access to the Library BECAUSE you know about it... and why would the formula be locked up? how did Monica get the research material she needed on the Vimana Cells... she just ASKED The Library itself...and then refined her search to facts only, sub-refined to Earth only... like i said earlier, if she could get THAT amount of info, ACCURATE FACTUAL INFO no less, on something with literally "Earth-Shattering" consequences by doing nothing more than ASKING for it, we would most definitely be able to get the Coke formula as well, with even less hassle than you'd expect as it ?should be/would be? only be a small pamphlet or even one or two pieces of paper, not the volumes and volumes that Monica had to deal with on the V-Cells (but you'd expect that from nuclear/quantum/stellar engineering texts, right?!). Nah, Phix couldn't CARE less about anything as mundane as a soft-drink recipe, so there wouldn't be any reason for her to lock that stuff up. and before you say it, Monica had not been upgraded to the Jaguar Girl yet... therefore she was acting as an "ordinary" patron of the Library... Granted, she was a person that Phix was friends with, but even SHE was unaware that Monica would become the Jaguar Girl, otherwise she wouldn't have been so shocked when she resurrected herself after the Face-Off incident... therefore, she couldn't have been giving instructions for special treatment to Monica based on her future deeds, ala' JG status...illiad wrote:ummm.., TWO problems actually! the *second* is asking Phix about it, the FIRST is getting into the library.... yeah you know exactly where the 'door' is, but it just looks like a run-down building unless you know the quantum key...jwhouk wrote:There's just one problem: it's locked in the shelves behind the reference desk. And Phix has the only key to the shelves.
