Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The Warm Equations Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:40:50 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:40:51 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6863d6f3cf6670566e03f9a751d3324c"; logging-data="1085379"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Wa47D1yAnXhN29f3jpLbir1LNC2+JWLk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:CFA8ghJ6mzK8yLSRDM+aqdQ1xKw= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1543 On 6/23/2024 11:37 AM, Ted Nolan 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/ Lynn