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On 6/27/2024 12:44 PM, Jerry Brown wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:37:23 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/25/2024 8:24 PM, Mad Hamish wrote:
>>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:03:27 -0700, Robert Woodward
>>> <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>> Yes, but having a door that locks so that passengers can't just walk
>>> into your shuttle seems like a fairly simple precaution without much
>>> risk of problems from it
>>
>> My immediate thought was "But it was written in the Golden Age when it
>> was just assumed that only those with an IQ higher than a potato's would
>> be allowed into space!"
>>
>> Then reality drops a ton of potatoes on me.
> 
> I recall one of Jack Williams' CT novels referring to the captain of a
> ship handing over its keys (not sure if hatch, ignition or both).


Apparently, US military vehicles such as tanks and jet aircraft don't
have keys - they are normally stored in secure areas, and lost
per-vehicle keys would provide an failure path in an emergency.

Every now and then, you hear about someone taking a tank on a joyride,
and its even happened to jets on occasion.

pt