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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Warm Equations
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 11:25:20 -0500
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On 26/06/2024 14.42, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 6/24/2024 12:01 PM, 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-equations/
> 
> There are so many stories about people sneaking on a ship that we have created a word in the English language for them: Stowaways.

Did that term arise from *stories* about the concept? I was under the impression that
it came from real, physical people sneaking on board real, physical ships.

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Michael F. Stemper
Galatians 3:28