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Article #904Re: Transportation by Dissolution!
From: Michael Frank
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1989 07:37
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1989 07:37
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>> PS - I've never read of this "cryonic tank" mode of transport in SF, but I >> imagine someone has thought of it before. References anyone? > >> [I seem to remember there was some story by Poul Anderson I read >> years and years ago. I won't even hazard a guess at the title. >> Anybody recognize it? >> --JoSH] >Sounds a lot like Simak's "Way Station" to me. He was a little more basic, >prefering acid vats to cryonic tanks! > >Mike. In Piers Anthony's book _Macroscope_, a method of transportation through black holes is used where the people get into a vat where they are dissolved into raw materials (which are able to survive the intense G-forces at the hole), and then reassembled after the trip thru the wormhole. Mike. (A different one.) -- Michael Frank "The Ear-God" AI:Amiga:Fencing:Swimming:Star Trek:Pink Floyd bugboy@portia.stanford.edu Nanotechnology:Microsoft:TN:FL:MA ...and more Box 6536, Stanford CA 94309 "I will always be here / I will always look out (415) EAR-0-GOD "I listen." from behind these eyes" - the Floyd, aMLoR, '87
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!portia.stanford.edu!bugboy From: bugboy@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Frank) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Transportation by Dissolution! Message-ID: <8904250440.AA15049@athos.rutgers.edu> Date: 22 Apr 89 07:37:56 GMT Sender: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu Organization: Stanford University Lines: 29 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu