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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Inconsistency: the doors
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 23:06:17 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 11 23:06:17 1985
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> "No beach to walk on..."
> 
> 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.
> 					...{uw-beaver|fluke}!ssc-vax!adolph
> 
> 	"1 + 1 = 1, for sufficiently small values of 1..."

How about: "...perhaps it feels good about being a door?"

Or: "Here's one of those self-satisfied doors again. It's about to
     open; I can tell by the aire of smuggness it's suddenly generating.
     It's its pleasure to open for you, and to close again with the
     satisfaction of a job well done...depressing..."


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                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
                               ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo

 
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