" Its strange you should raise that matter, Aggy," the Queen informed him, "the Navy Board made that decision yesterday morning. They have even gone, ...eluctantly, so far as to cease ship construction except for the carriers. Explain about the BCs." Pre diaspora, a wet Navy was building up before a war, things had been left too late. Some one did a paper review of the proposed fleet and found the CVs had been forgotten. Their solution was to transform several BC hulls then under construction. You seemed unconvinced.“When I first started coming to Mana Pools, I almost walked into a pride of lions,” I said.“Were you scared?” you asked.“I thought I would be, but they were entirely disinterested, as I was not in their space yet,” I said. “It didn’t feel scary at all.”“Wow, I’d run so fast back to the car!” you exclaimed.African wildlife was all around us, a bachelor herd of impala, a bull with a harem of females, a small group of waterbuck, vervet monkeys up in a big apple-ring acacia. ‘Well it worked on Terry,’ my wife bragged. ‘I had him fixed right after Maria was born.’ ‘Mother!’ Maria now hissed. ‘Oh don’t ‘mother’ me. Facts are, you always have to keep your man on a leash and with a muzzle, if you can manage it,’ my wife said, continuing to bestow her matronly wisdom on the group. ‘There’s always some bitch in heat, looking for a meal ticket.’ ‘Yeah,’ Anita added, ‘just look down the street at Theresa. She’s had three kids from two different men …’ ‘Three,’ Maria. "Zandra, what happens to all of that material when there is no more gravity field to hold it to the size and shape it has been forced into?" Randell demanded angrily."It will expand back to its original size and volume," Zandra told them quietly."But it's all sinking into the ground," Miranda said. "How far will it sink in that time?" I'm not sure. It depends on the type of rock under it, but it will probably sink at about fifty feet or so in an hour." So in twenty-four hours it will have sunk.