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   From: lal_truckee@yahoo.com   
      
   On 1/11/14 6:35 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:   
      
   > eliminating the horse   
      
   resulted in the demise of a true, practical, and widely available   
   self-driving carriage.   
      
   We've been scrambling ever since to just get back to what we gave up.   
      
   YASID -   
   I think it was half an ACE double. What I remember is a culture clash   
   between an advanced mechanized culture and an advanced genetic   
   engineering culture. Highlight of the memory is a race between a   
   genetically engineered riding animal and a flying car. After falling   
   behind early, the flying car finally beats the riding animal on the   
   return leg, barely. The rider is initially impressed until he asks the   
   car driver how many young does the car drop and finds out you don't get   
   baby cars to raise.   
      
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