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Article #1108

Re: One Step... (long!)

#1108
From: Cory Kempf
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1988 15:50
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In article <6122@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>If you have teleportation, what do you need a space shuttle for?

You entirely missed the point of the article... the Engineer *Never
left his office*.  He was utilizing a network (in this case a Wide
Area Network to participate in a meeeting of the people involved in a
project for designing a new piece of hardware (shuttle).  The people
involved were not necessarily in the same building or country or
continent or even on the same planet!
>								  If
>you can't teleport all the way to orbit, isn't a spaceplane more likely
>than a shuttle for orbital transport?

You missed the part about 'rails' I suppose?

+C
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From: cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: One Step... (long!)
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Date: 29 Dec 88 15:50:15 GMT
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