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   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) to David Goldfarb   
   Re: Simulating SF Scenario   
   04 May 14 19:21:57   
   
   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 5/3/14 11:09 PM, David Goldfarb wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote:   
   >> 	Now, I'm sure someone's DONE it, but what I haven't seen often is a   
   >> time viewer that you have to bring TO the location you want to view. It   
   >> would work like a remote video camera at that point.   
   >   
   > "The Man Who Ended History, a Documentary", by Ken Liu, had that -- with   
   > the additional twist that the time viewer would only work once in any   
   > given location.  It was nominated for a Hugo two years ago.   
   >   
      
   	Sooooo... how did it determine "any given location"? What if I moved   
   the device a millimeter from the first point? A centimeter? a meter? a   
   kilometer?   
      
      
      
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