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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a2476
- From: David_Woodsworth@mindlink.bc.ca (David Woodsworth)
- Subject: Re: ropes in TNG?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:27:22 GMT
- Message-ID: <19007@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > John A. Weeks III writes:
- >
- > 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.
-
- Where did you get the idea that they carried 500 meters of rope? Rock
- climbers routinely carry 50 meter lengths of rope, and still manage to
- routinely descend hundreds of meters of cliff. Perhaps they set up new
- anchors every hundred meters or so.
-
- David
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- Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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