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From: steven@qubix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Death Star weapon.
Message-ID: <1155@qubix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 16:47:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 16:47:26 1984
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I agree! The very act of appearing in a place before light has a chance to
get there (you know what I mean) is exactly equivalent to going back
in time.
Now tell me; what so bad about going backwards in time?

-Kieran A. Carroll
...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll
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    Well, nothing, except that there is no evidence for it.

    I realize that this is a pretty lame excuse to have hanging
    around in net.sf-lovers, HOWEVER most sci-fi has FTL without
    (for some inexplicable reason) time travel.  To name a few:
    Star Trek, Star Wars, Niven, Heinlein, MZ Bradley, CJ Cherryh, Pohl,
    Asimov, etc., etc., etc.    While I have no explicit objection to
    the "science" in many stories by Dr. Who (even though exceedingly
    improbable, they are at least possible), I would point out that
    most science fiction is patently false.  (But what if 2 + 2 DID
    equal 5??).

    Steven Maurer

    ... As it is, psionics promises to be even funnier than dianetics or Ray
Palmer's Shaver stories.  It suggests once more how far from accurate is the
stereotype of the science fiction fan as a bright, well-informed, scien-
tifically literate fellow.  Judging by the number of Campbell's readers who
are impressed by this nonsense, the average fan may very well be a chap in
his teens, with a smattering of scientific knowledge culled mostly from
science fiction, enormously gullible, with a strong bent toward occultism,
no understanding of scientific method, and a basic insecurity for which he
compensates by fantasies of scientific power.     -- Marvin Gardener