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From: cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: One Step... (long!)
Message-ID: <275@gloom.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 15:50:15 GMT
References: <263@gloom.UUCP> <30100@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <6122@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf)
Organization: Alloy Computer Products, Framingham Mass.
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In article <6122@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>If you have teleportation, what do you need a space shuttle for?

You entirely missed the point of the article... the Engineer *Never
left his office*.  He was utilizing a network (in this case a Wide
Area Network to participate in a meeeting of the people involved in a
project for designing a new piece of hardware (shuttle).  The people
involved were not necessarily in the same building or country or
continent or even on the same planet!
>								  If
>you can't teleport all the way to orbit, isn't a spaceplane more likely
>than a shuttle for orbital transport?

You missed the part about 'rails' I suppose?

+C
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Cory ( "...Love is like Oxygen..." ) Kempf
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