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From: tli@oberon.UUCP (Tony Li)
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Subject: Re: Inconsistency: the doors
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 05:16:40 EDT
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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.
> 					...{uw-beaver|fluke}!ssc-vax!adolph
> 

That's because the doors are INTELLIGENT.  This another one of those subtle
AI applications that really needs to be investigated!  ;-)

Actually the doors are intelligent.  There's a grip up in the catwalks 
with two poles to open the doors.  

Cheers, 
Tony ;-)
-- 
Tony Li ;-)		Usc Computer Science
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