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From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Death Star weapon.
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 18:12:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 18:12:29 1984
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>  The plausibility is the same as for FTL, thiotimoline, and the radio in
>  Galileo's day - impossibly small *at this time*. Later on, who knows?

    <sputter sputter foof>
	FTL is *IMPOSSIBLE*   DO YOU HEAR ME????
	YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE AT MAKING A PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE
	THAN YOU HAVE AT MAKING AN FTL DRIVE!!!!
    <foof sputter sputter>

    I find it somewhat humorous (in a sick sort of way) that people
    who are supposed to be as intelligent as SF readers, can totally
    ignore the findings of Einstein -- without even bothering to read
    or understand them.

    What Einstein discovered, is a new (UNBREAKABLE) law: much like
    the Second Law of Thermodynamics.   And ALL THE FUTURE SCIENCE IN
    THE WORLD, will not change it, or allow one to get around it
    somehow.

    The "hyperspace" excuse, arises from an incomplete understanding
    of what Einstein discovered: you cannot "go around" the distance,
    because the very act of APPEARING at a place before light gets
    there, is exactly equivalent to going backwards through time.

    Steven Maurer