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Subject: Re: The Warm Equations
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:37:23 -0700
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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:
> 
>> In article <v5c8pc$n12$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>> jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
>>
>>> In article <v5c7ij$113u3$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 6/23/2024 11:37 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>>>> Interesting to note the way margins of a real-life space venture are run:
>>>>>
>>>>> Two astronauts have been stuck at the ISS for an extra two weeks,
>>>>> so far, because their ride has flat tires, and it's not a crisis,
>>>>> and nobody has had to volunteer to step out the airlock.
>>>>
>>>> For those who do not know, this is a play on "The Cold Equations"
>>>> awesome incredibly sad short story:
>>>>     https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cold-equations/
>>>>
>>> Alternatively, it's a terrible story about people with extremely
>>> shitty pre-flight safety procedures.
>>>
>>> https://reactormag.com/on-needless-cruelty-in-sf-tom-godwins-the-cold-equation
>>> s/
>>
>> Complacency can subvert excellently designed pre-flight safety
>> procedures. BTW, I came up with an interplanetary space drive
>> (non-Newtonian of course) that would be very mass sensitive (inspired by
>> the stutterwarp in GDW's roleplaying game _Traveller: 2300AD_, later
>> renamed _2300AD) and recalculations would be beyond the capability of
>> the shuttle's computer and sensor installation.
> 
> 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've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.