Just when you thought it was saft to come out, I come back. I've been out of town, a death in the family. I'm about 150 messages behind in the LN-list alone....
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 4, 1998 4:39 pm
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Thanks for the comments Carol, and welcome back (condolences, as well, on your loss). As you said, my paper certainly is sophomoric; parts of it were ...
Love, Andrew E., Jr.
LoveAE1@...
May 4, 1998 5:28 pm
4144
... Oh? I had heard that there was some white visitor that vaugly resembled a man in middle eastern myths. Of course, Jews may not be white, depending on who...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 4, 1998 5:28 pm
4145
... Thank you. My father will be missed by a lot of people. But if we have to go, being cradled in the arms of a loved one seems a nice way to go. He was ...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 4, 1998 6:09 pm
4146
... Speak for yourself there! I keep MY genitalia safely tucked inside! ... ??? Nice list Dagon. Carol...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 5, 1998 5:46 am
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I thought readers might enjoy looking at these sites mentioning our common interest. Carol ... 8< 8< 8< 8< 8< ... 8< 8< 8<...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 5, 1998 10:45 pm
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... A perfect time machine would be able to do some really smart things, like Niven's stasis feilds, and be able to tell if the outside is safe for its guests,...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 7, 1998 3:03 am
4149
... Surely booths would have a relative north, if transfering off the planet, and could compensate for differences in the velocity of the planets involved....
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 7, 1998 3:03 am
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... Yes, and we should be seeing that new Svetz book, RAINBOW MARS, or SVETZ AND THE BEANSTALK, real soon now. Wonder why the publisher is sitting on it for ...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 7, 1998 3:03 am
4151
... So, how much difference was there? Seconds? Carol...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 7, 1998 3:35 am
4152
... Why there? Offhand, Antarctica seems just about perfect. (Poor penguins!) Matthew Dockrey Visit MidgardMOO! ...
Matthew Dockrey
gfish@...
May 7, 1998 5:56 am
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On Thu, 7 May 1998 01:51:46 -0400 (EDT) Matthew Dockrey ... people. ... penguins!) I thought that the weather generated off the icecap was an important ...
danmurray@...
May 7, 1998 7:03 am
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... That would melt the ice cap, and raise the sea level. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gareth Wilson Christchurch New Zealand ...
Gareth Wilson
grw45@...
May 7, 1998 7:03 am
4155
... I thought about that too, but consider: Antarctica is a continent, not an ice cap. While there is a good deal of water frozen there, AFAIK it is not nearly...
Matthew Dockrey
gfish@...
May 7, 1998 7:38 am
4156
... Just because something is desirable, doesn't mean it is possible. If time travel precludes 3d-movement during the transfer, then we will just have to live...
Hibbs, Philip
philip.hibbs@...
May 7, 1998 8:43 am
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I'm back. You can groan now. ... Afaik, nanoseconds, and within the limits of experimental error. It was a good idea but it didn't quite come off the way it...
Edwin A. Scribner
krenon@...
May 7, 1998 9:16 am
4158
... Well, be surprised Andy! I have not read any of the books to which you refer and in fact I think I was just using the terms beacuse RARIVERA1 (For goodness...
Edwin A. Scribner
krenon@...
May 7, 1998 12:12 pm
4159
Northern Hemisphere carries 90% of the Earths population & agriculture. ... Arun Menon (408)527-1538 SJ-C, 150-W Tasman Dr., Cisco Systems Inc. "Lord, make me...
Arun Menon
amenon@...
May 7, 1998 6:59 pm
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... For low relative speeds, such as a supersonic aircraft versus an observer on the ground, the clocks would differ by 1/2*v^2/c^2 seconds per second, v being...
Michael Towk O'Kelly
towk@...
May 7, 1998 9:38 pm
4161
In message <35521FBD.D69E8AF9@...> you write: ..snip... ... ..snip... .. giving rise to the expressions "jet lag" and "he's a little bit slow" I...
saskxm@...
May 7, 1998 10:13 pm
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... Sounds a lot like the forest people from Orson Scott Card's _[A Planet Called] Treason_. Or that one episode of ST:TNG with the Romulans. Too bad authors...
Matthew Dockrey
gfish@...
May 7, 1998 11:28 pm
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... Okay, I'm finally getting around to responding to this since my textbook from last quarter has a nice summary. Rough quote: On November 22, 1975, A US...
Matthew Dockrey
gfish@...
May 8, 1998 12:07 am
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... Twilight ... also ... like ... Wouldn't gravity be different too? Adi Stav...
Adi Stav
stav@...
May 8, 1998 12:45 am
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gravity would see some change, and waiting for a parking space would be a bitch. D -- ********************** See the e-Tide Online at:...
Andrew Seward Duncan
drewprop@...
May 8, 1998 1:23 am
4166
Carol, I remember a story where there were large masses placed and anchored in the oceans which were used to channel the difference in velocity into energy...
MelBrown92
MelBrown92@...
May 8, 1998 2:01 am
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Matthew, Meteor strike in Antartica, tidal waves, Australia underwater, we lose a valued member of our list, AND my boat in San Francisco Bay gets rocked. I ...
MelBrown92
MelBrown92@...
May 8, 1998 2:35 am
4168
As I recall that was from "The Alibi Machine" or one of the similiar stories set in the 1990's where transfer booths where discovered These were Niven stories...
Doug Clark
dougclark@...
May 8, 1998 3:07 am
4169
... Why would an Antarctica strike mean tidal waves? It is a continent like Africa. If an Antarctica strike means tidal waves then a Sahara strike would take...
Matthew Dockrey
gfish@...
May 8, 1998 4:18 am
4170
In a message dated 98-05-07 18:07:46 EDT, saskxm@... writes: << The story line turns on the idea that when he returned he somehow was out of time-lock...
FreakUgly
FreakUgly@...
May 8, 1998 5:26 am
4171
... LOL! What a thought! No she is not Fuzzy Pink, being at a rough guess something like 30 years younger for a start and possessed of a very English accent...