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In article <104hion$3528v$1@dont-email.me>,
Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 07/07/2025 14:51, danny burstein 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...
>
>Unless you're in space to begin with.
>_
>I think Niven's "All the Bridges Rusting" firstly
>shows an interstellar spaceship which can teleport
>itself but it needs a receiver, which is in the
>outer solar system - so, less deep in the Sun's
>gravity well.  I don't reme,ber if that mattered.
>Meanwhile, another spaceship is out there and
>in trouble.
><https://larryniven.net/?q=bibliographic-reference/all-the-bridges-rusting>
>
>I think _One Step From Earth_ is Harry Harrison's
>treatment of interstellar teleport machines.
>
>Someone mentioned _Stargate SG-1_.  I suppose it
>qualifies except for "booth".  Stories differ on
>whether a traveller walks along inside a space
>wormhole, or is quantumed from one planet to
>another, or is sent or received electronically,
>digitally - there's a story where Teal'c's pattern
>is trapped inside Earth's Stargate and they have
>to fix it without turning off and on again...?
>
>I also found teleportation discussed in the second
>half of 2024:
><https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1g9mrzu/any_books_exploring_what_earth_is_like_after_the/>
>"after the invention of matter transporters".

I recall one story where a spaceship would teleport onto a receiver on its
nose, repeatedly.  So you had rapid apparent motion without much real
velocity.  It kind of put me in the mind of Smith's inert & free though not
really the same thing at all.
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