off topic and weird redux, mega fleet deal, mm

> At 08:51 AM 1/18/2002 -0600, you wrote:

I have been looking for years to find out about this book. I had a friend who
had it many, many years ago (early to mid '80's?). I borrowed it one day and
actually copied the illustrations of the ships (this was back when I was a
kid, I was passing time at my mom's workplace during the summer).

Must...have...books...!

Well let me put the combined genius of the list to work on another bookish
problem. This same friend had a book about the solar system with the usual
breakdown of a chapter per planet. But at the end of each chapter there was a
section hypothesizing an intelligent lifeform (or two) for each of the
(non-Earth) planets.  I remember the Venusian snacked
on parts of burned out probes from Earth. Anyone know this?

As an aside, about the same time I bought a book called "Star Quest" by Steven
Caldwell in a series called Galactic Encounters from Crescent Books. It
featured the story of the first Human contact with a warlike race called the
Phalans (not Phalon). It had pictures of many interesting ships, which made
want to find and buy the sister books "Aliens in Space" and "Worlds at War" to
find more. Anyone ever read anything in this series?

Also, anyone have some really good pics of the various

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, The Pink Phantom wrote:

> Must...have...books...!

I think this was "Our Universe", an atlas put out by National Geographic.

> And finally, though I'm sure this is a repeat on this

It's the standard Wargame terminology for scale, and represents the average
height of a human figure - there are many slight variations of opinion
as to exactly how it is defined, but we've always taken it to be the height
from ground to EYE LEVEL of an average male figure standing straight -
so a
"true" 25mm" figure will be about 25mm to eye-level, plus another couple
of
mm to top of head or whatever headgear he is wearing - maybe 27-28mm
overall height.

Jon (GZG)
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