Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!sunybcs!ugzannin From: ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Transporters:a question Message-ID: <1637@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-May-85 12:47:17 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1637 Posted: Fri May 3 12:47:17 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 3-May-85 16:58:41 EDT References: <438@nmtvax.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 21 > > A few nights ago, I watched "A Piece of the Action" with a friend. We > began wondering: when the Enterprise beams one of the crime bosses over > to where Kirk is, why doesn't the phone that the crime boss is holding > beam with him? > > Our best explanation was that things that are attached to other things do > not beam up. > > Anybody else have any ideas??? > > -- > Tracy A. McInvale Maybe because Ma Bell (or whatever phone company the Iotians have) would have charged a replacement fee for the phone... -- ..{burdvax,rocksvax,bbncca,decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath}!sunybcs!ugzannin BITNET: CS24173@SUNYABVA