Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The Warm Equations Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:22:29 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:22:29 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="1285"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1642 Lines: 18 In article , Joy Beeson wrote: >On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:01:33 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James >Nicoll) wrote: > >> Alternatively, it's a terrible story about people with extremely >> shitty pre-flight safety procedures. > >"Poverty" and "shitty" are, of course, exact synonyms. I have no idea what prompted that sentence. Does poverty precude looking in the only closet of a small vessel to check for a stow away whose mass will surely doom the mission? Are people in possession of starships generally unable to afford locks? -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll