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- From: det@phlan.sw.stratus.com (David Toland)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
- Subject: Re: ropes in TNG?
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 14:23:26 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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- In article <1h3jtvINNcik@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bm560@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas D. Salyers) writes:
- > Picard and company used ropes because sometimes the simple
- >solutions are better than the high-tech ones. A hundred meters or
- >so of the type of rope they would be able to make in the 24th
- >century would weight *much* less than any set of anti-grav boots
- >and be a whole lot less likely to break down...=)
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- Also, a couple of other reasons come to mind:
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- 1. Grav boots or the like are easier to detect than ropes. This is not
- a contradiction with the use of a phaser to cut an opening in the rock.
- In each case, the least detectable method was probably used (phasers
- rather than explosives, ropes rather than grav boots or jet packs).
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- 2. Grav boots may require considerably more training than ropes and
- pitons to use safely. Kind of like roller skating on a high wire.
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