11-10-2003, 20:45
A bearded, older hawkman comes on screen.
"Greetings, all. I am Biro, Minister of Trade and Diplomacy. We've just sent out some of our gas mining crafts to comb the outer-stratosphere for useful gases such as helium, hydrogen and chlorine. Let me show you a file pic of one of our crafts leaving one of our cloud cities. Five of these crafts are assigned to each city at this moment."
http://home.earthlink.net/~peterpank/gasminer.jpg
"These crafts are about 100 meters long and wide at its most extreme points, and weighs in at about 350 tons. The four turbo-shaft engines put out about 10,000 pounds of thrust each for journeying into, and leaving from, the high-pressure inner layers of gas giants. The entire ship is pressurized and airtight. The hull boasts 2 meters of titanium."
A high-lighting pinpoint is displayed on the picture, bringing attention to certain areas. "The large scoop on the bottom has several layers with which to sift and sort gases depending on their weight. Very sensitive equipment indeed. the sifted gases then are cooled into a liquid state at Absolute Zero on ship, and stored in the cylinders on the belly of the craft."
"This entire craft runs on hydro-electric power, as do most of our crafts. These crafts are also modified sometimes to extract water from high-altitude clouds. Each canister holds five tons of resources. We seem to have a small surplus of liquid helium and hydrogen right now. About 1000 tons of each. I've been told we can sell them for 10,000 Keets per ton. That's about 2,500 USD, if that's what other nations still use as the standard of currency exchange."
"If you are based in, or can make your way to the Proxima Centauri region, we'll be willing to reserve orders now. This has been Minister Biro, over and out!"
http://home.earthlink.net/~peterpank/flash181.jpg
"Greetings, all. I am Biro, Minister of Trade and Diplomacy. We've just sent out some of our gas mining crafts to comb the outer-stratosphere for useful gases such as helium, hydrogen and chlorine. Let me show you a file pic of one of our crafts leaving one of our cloud cities. Five of these crafts are assigned to each city at this moment."
http://home.earthlink.net/~peterpank/gasminer.jpg
"These crafts are about 100 meters long and wide at its most extreme points, and weighs in at about 350 tons. The four turbo-shaft engines put out about 10,000 pounds of thrust each for journeying into, and leaving from, the high-pressure inner layers of gas giants. The entire ship is pressurized and airtight. The hull boasts 2 meters of titanium."
A high-lighting pinpoint is displayed on the picture, bringing attention to certain areas. "The large scoop on the bottom has several layers with which to sift and sort gases depending on their weight. Very sensitive equipment indeed. the sifted gases then are cooled into a liquid state at Absolute Zero on ship, and stored in the cylinders on the belly of the craft."
"This entire craft runs on hydro-electric power, as do most of our crafts. These crafts are also modified sometimes to extract water from high-altitude clouds. Each canister holds five tons of resources. We seem to have a small surplus of liquid helium and hydrogen right now. About 1000 tons of each. I've been told we can sell them for 10,000 Keets per ton. That's about 2,500 USD, if that's what other nations still use as the standard of currency exchange."
"If you are based in, or can make your way to the Proxima Centauri region, we'll be willing to reserve orders now. This has been Minister Biro, over and out!"
http://home.earthlink.net/~peterpank/flash181.jpg