It was kind of a circular problem. They needed iron to make magnets to make electricity to refine copper to make wire to make better magnets to make m...ore electricity, etc., etc., etc. Charles wanted electricity for other reasons, too. He wanted to replace the gas lamps with electrical lights, as well as get enough electricity to drive electric motors for machine tools. He was already thinking about a Stirling Cycle engine running off the hot spring to drive the generator. Doug had remembered. "So let me get this straight. We have four basic ship types: destroyers, at 1000 meters in length; cruisers, at 2000 meters in length; battleships, at 4000 meters in length; and dreadnoughts, at 6000 meters in length. Correct so far?" Vonda asked.Richard nodded. Vonda went on."Now destroyers carry 10 missile pods of ten missiles per pod. And each destroyer can fire a broadside of 6 missiles? So that would be 106 missiles fired if a destroyer let loose all at once? Too bad the pods are not. I was sat there cross legged showing off my stocking tops , thigh and a cheeky glimpse of my cute bum which he kept glancing upon, he asked me to get pen and paper to take down his dictation short-hand style , only problem was I'm useless at it and kept messing up badly, I felt like being sacked there and then.He said my paperwork was bad but to succeed in getting the job would I take down another form of DICKtation which I reluctantly agreed to, so he stood up and made me kneel down, he said. He will love to see them uncovered.”The women made a couple of purchases before they returned to the room. Although Hindi, they enjoyed wine and bought a big bottle for this occasion. None of them were strict practitioners so what the hell.After dinner the men asked what the women wanted to do for entertainment. The conspirators looked at each other and replied that they wanted to go back to the room and show what they had purchased that day. Tamil made a face at the other husband and the women.