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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Looking for stories....
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In article <104gjc9$gmu$2@reader1.panix.com>,
danny burstein  <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>In <md20hbFmrmjU1@mid.individual.net> ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
><tednolan>) writes:
>
>>In article <booths-20250707135221@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
>>Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>Lee Gleason <lee.gleason@comcast.net> wrote or quoted:
>>>>   That have teleportation across stellar distances, but only to 
>>>>teleportation booths that have been first been transported to their 
>>>>destinations by conventional space travel on ships.
>>>
>>>  Transfer booths only working between fixed locations equipped with
>>>  booths exist in Larry Niven's Ringworld.
>
>>I was thinking about that.  Was there a reason given why they aren't
>>used off-planet?  Maybe they are SPEOL only?
>
>Also... they had to compensate for the differing potential
>energies between receiving and transmission sites, as one
>could be "traveling" (term used a bit loosely) a lot faster
>and in a different direction, and altitude, etc., than
>the other.
>
>This would otherwise lead to potentially a hefty chunk of
>heat being released at the receiving site.
>
>(This was, iirc, a plot device in one of his stories).
>
>It's bad enough when talking about locations on the
>same planet, but if you're looking at space velocities
>and energy wells, etc., it's mind boggling...
>

I think it's probably a handwave that it works on the planet then, as
the Earth is revolving, progressing on its orbit & drifting through
space with the spiral arm and whatnot...
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