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From: erosenth@aecom.UUCP (Elazar Rosenthal)
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Subject: Re: Inconsistency: the doors
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 02:54:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 02:54:08 1985
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> 
> Has anybody figured out how those doors work?  Do they have limited 
> telepathy, somewhat akin to the limited prescience of the Hitchhiker
> elevators?  The episode that triggered this is "The Naked Time", in which
> a sobbing Spock enters a room, the door closes and he leans back against
> it.  Why doesn't it reopen and dump him out into the corridor on his
> butt?
> 
> 					-- Mark A.


They probily are slightly intelegent 
even today automatic lighting systems 
do not respond to only one stimules
nce in one spot