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- From: emagnus@hfglobe.intel.com (Eric Magnusson)
- Subject: Re: ropes in TNG?
- Message-ID: <C01GFC.A7F@hfglobe.intel.com>
- Organization: Intel Corporation
- References: <18758@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Dec21.092516.28352@u.washington.edu> <232@newave.newave.mn.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:47:33 GMT
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- In article <232@newave.newave.mn.org> john@newave.newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
- >In <1992Dec21.092516.28352@u.washington.edu> rene@hardy.u.washington.edu:
- >> Didnt anybody else consider it rather remarkable how little rope they
- >> appeared to be carrying, particularly in light of the fact that Picard
- >> mentions the descent is 1500 feet... ?
- >
- >Yes...and they seemed to have just exactly the right amount of rope (it looked
- >like there was 6 inches of extra rope laying on the ground at the bottom). If
- >the cliff had been 503 meters rather than 500 meters, they would have been in
- >big trouble. The whole rope thing seemed a bit bogus to begin with.
- >
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- I'm sure we missed seeing the little replicators at the ends of the rope which
- made them just the right size! :-)
-
- -Eric
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