From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu   
      
   In article ,   
   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote:   
   >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?   
      
   You might consider reading the story.  It worked off of a handwave   
   about residual radiation of some kind, and a "reading" process that   
   was destructive to its pattern.  I don't remember whether there was   
   any discussion of what the range was; I'd guess that a meter would   
   not be enough, and that a kilometer would be.   
      
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