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Re:How a Handgun Works: 1911 .45 by themodelplumber on Saturday February 21, 2015 @05:19PM (#9087227)
Have you read Lucifer's Hammer? There's a guy in the book who kind makes this his mission.
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Re:How a Handgun Works: 1911 .45 by ghshephard on Saturday February 21, 2015 @08:18PM (#9087771)
One of my favorite books. But, he wasn't using animagraffs, was he? I seem to recall him burying a bunch of books in plastic, possibly in the ground?

There's a pretty well known concept around writing "Restart Civilization" texts (They make an appearance in another niven/pournelle book, The Mote in Gods Eye) - I just think the animagraffs would be a useful addition to the tools in which to do so.

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