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- From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Research in Fiction
- Message-ID: <64159@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 23:09:00 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <24003@castle.ed.ac.uk> <e9HFoB2w164w@nlbbs.UUCP>
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- > Hal, my barefoot child, if that's the only technical objection
- > you've brought to STNG, you've missed a hell of a lot yourself. I've
- > got news for you: If two or more ships meet in space after travelling
- > interstellar distances, they will not, in all likelyhood, be
- > vertically and horizontally oriented alike. Also, I doubt that the
-
- Sure they will. Spacefaring races will establish a convention that ships
- travel oriented a certain way with respect to galactic north, that ships
- going toward the core have the right of way (for example), and things like
- that. Such conventions will include how they orient when they meet, so
- that there will be no embarrassing moments (e.g., the Ambassador beams
- over and is upside down...).
-
- --Tim Smith
-