mike@maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers) (03/23/89)
From: phil@hpsmdca.HP.COM (Philip Walden) >>I recall a sci-fi short story (sorry can't remember the author) about >>a scientist (read nerd, absent-minded professor type) with an >>overbearing, constantly nagging (read stereotype) >>wife. His solution was to invent an anti-noise device to cancel her >>out. Unfortunately, as the story goes, the cancelled noise energy had >>to go somewhere and the device "blew-up". Can't remember who got hurt, >>the scientist or the wife. In article <805@neptune.AMD.COM> tom@neptune.AMD.COM (Tom Lynch) writes: >Yes, I read a sci-fi story about the noise eater also. It was in >"Tales of the Whitehorn" I believe (read it in high school). The >story was about the Fulton Silencer. If you like this idea you'll >love the book. It blew up at a concert after eating too much music >energy. You know all that energy has got to go somewhere! >Harvey come back we need you! (isn't that how the book ended?) >tom The Story was in the book "Tales From the White Hart" by Arthur Clarke. The book contains details of storys told by the protagonist 'Harry' about scientific friends of his, mostly of disreputable nature, who seemed always to be one step from blowing up the world. They all seemed to be mysogonists also. But some of the science is wonderfully bad. -- Mike Rogers, 6.3.3 TCD, D2, Eire. | "This is between me mike@maths.tcd.ie (UNIX => preferred) | and the vegetable." mike@tcdmath.UUCP (The OLD Hostname) | (Seymour) msrogers@vax1.tcd.ie(VMS => blergh) | mtsu0066@icl.tcd.ie (GMAC=>unspeakable) |_______________________________________