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From: davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Transporters - Fiction & Nonsense
Message-ID: <67@orca.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Aug-83 14:43:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 15 14:43:01 1983
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Two responses:

	1) Algis Budrys' novel "Rogue Moon" dealt with a transporter which
	created a COPY of the person transported at a remote location.  Since
	the copy was identical in every detail to the original, the two of them
	had telepathic contact for a short while after transmission.  The main
	plot of the novel concerned the use of this device to explore an
	incredibly hostile alien base on the Moon.  Anyone who went into it
	died horribly, and somebody had the bright idea of sending in a copy of
	an explorer to report telepathically until he died.  Unfortunately,
	this invariably drove the original insane.  Until an explorer was found
	who had no fear of death...  This book is hard to find but worthwhile
	reading.

	2) Anyone going from one IHoP to another by transporter would never
	notice that s/he had moved... those places are all absolutely
	identical!


  -- David D. Levine   (...decvax!tektronix!tekecs!davidl)      [UUCP]
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