On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

On May 19, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Perhaps - rather than sunlight - the collectors on the Annic Nova are collecting and concentrating the ambient luminiferous aether, then using this in place of liquid hydrogen to form a jump bubble.

So it’s not an Ancients device, it the HMES Annic Nova, that somehow slipped through an interdimensional crack from the Space 1889 universe :-)

Precisely. :)

Richard Aiken

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