You said clearly that I would be your slave...  Dwylbtzle wrote:huh?--i thought we were talking about soccer and rock hunting?
-i was joking about slaves because you said you used to be a miner-
-and i also used to be a miner--and them guys are poor bastard slaves
no matter HOW much money they make
nature of the work--grubbing around with rocks--caves, pits, stream beds...cold--they're cold places
(i'd rather drive a cab, personally)-but people think they need coal and steel and jewelry-so there will always be miners
-and, myself... the red emerald calls to me--the quest for the whale--but who can find one of those?
and they're in this barren burnt blasted treeless desert (utah) infested with tree kangaroos
i DREAM of brazil--where the huge crystal grow in the nice green jungle
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i guess one could catch an avalanche with a big turbine...
i mean--if they can do it with a waterfall....
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yes--i guess if one were trapped between those two places you mention,
it would take quite a while to escape
because that's a pretty huge area
do you guys have basketball there?
Wild miners here are really WILD! No way to slave them... easier is to be killed there and get underground at forest...  
Analog conditions to slavery are found in farms, done by sub-sub-sub-sub contractors... and all them will/must be caught...  
But the slavery mind is still all around. I had employees that, if allowed, would keep me working only for the food... all them already screwed thanks to natural universe laws... 8)))
We have basket ball for all classes and they try to be good. Some American player work down here.
If you come to SP I'll take you to a stones and minerals shop that will put you 100% much more crazy than you are! Absolutely huge!
Talking on crystals, once I found a white quartz piece composed of 3 joined in parallel and bi-terminated.
Avalanchedrive: I asked for your opinion on the project, not on my bad builder performance. It will work - as said many times - and besides simple it's hard to be understood...
I don't care if some one will take it, since from the beginning it's an open stuff!