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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Warm Equations
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:12:33 -0500
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On 6/26/2024 12:37 AM, Dimensional Traveler 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:
>>
>>> 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.

Yeah, when the Space Elevator gets going, the masses will go.

Lynn