""You swine, you filthy treacherous xeno, I'll kill you," Dologrov groaned. "Slowly."
"First you must catch me," Witweet answered. "By virtue of being small, I have a larger surface-to-volume ratio than you. My bones, my muscles, my veins and capillaries and cell membranes suffer less force per square centimeter than do yours. I can move faster than you, here. I can survive longer."
"You can't outrun a blaster bolt," Olafsson said."
3 out of 5
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
A Little Knowledge - Poul Anderson
""You swine, you filthy treacherous xeno, I'll kill you," Dologrov groaned. "Slowly."
"First you must catch me," Witweet answered. "By virtue of being small, I have a larger surface-to-volume ratio than you. My bones, my muscles, my veins and capillaries and cell membranes suffer less force per square centimeter than do yours. I can move faster than you, here. I can survive longer."
"You can't outrun a blaster bolt," Olafsson said."
3 out of 5
"First you must catch me," Witweet answered. "By virtue of being small, I have a larger surface-to-volume ratio than you. My bones, my muscles, my veins and capillaries and cell membranes suffer less force per square centimeter than do yours. I can move faster than you, here. I can survive longer."
"You can't outrun a blaster bolt," Olafsson said."
3 out of 5
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