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 From: erkyrath@eblong.com 
  
 Here, Harlan Osier  wrote: 
 > Something like "The Thorium Mines of Titania" or the "Osmium Mines of 
 > Oberon" or "The Polonium Mines of Portia" , "The Einsteinium Mines of 
 > Elara" , "The Protactinium ines of Prometheus" , "The Gallium Mines of 
 > Ganymede" , "The Technetium Mines of Thebe" , "The Hassium Mines of 
 > Hyperion" etc. 
 > 
 > Must sound pretty crappy and be set in our solar system. 
  
 "Californium Mines of Ceres", which has the advantage that it's 
 self-evidently impossible. 
  
 "Deuterium Mines of Mercury", nearly as impossible, and uneconomical 
 to boot (since deuterium is easy to get on Earth). 
  
 "Moratorium Mines of Mimas". 
  
 --Z 
  
 "And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the 
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