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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: The Warm Equations
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:05:53 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <lj5r7jpeu6dktngvi2kaod410b52koimrh@jwbrown.co.uk>,
Jerry Brown  <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> 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).

Better than the Tom Corbett situation, where the lack of useful airlock
locks came up from time to time. 

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