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   From: wdstarr@panix.com   
      
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   Walter Bushell  said:   
      
   > Your Name  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Of course, if sci-fi really predicts the future, then cars of any   
   >> sort will be useless because we'll simply use Star Trek   
   >> transporters to beam everywhere. Live in New York, but work in   
   >> Sydney? No problem, get there in a fraction of a second.  :-)   
   >   
   > OBsf: Before proposing that read "Think Like a Dinosaur".   
      
   Am I misremembering or was an extremely rare systems screwup?  (So   
   rare that the 'dinosaurs' had to basically make up a protocol for it   
   on the spot?)   
      
   > Plus some argue that transporters kill the transported and create   
   > a new person at the other end.   
      
   Which argument can easily be refuted by "Oh, shut _up_ already."   
      
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