RE: Faster Than Light Travel

Hi there!
Don't forget Improbablity Drive as used in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy.  I forget all the details but the ship's drive changes the odds
of you being in a certain place and then there you are.

David Best

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>From:	Rob Paul[SMTP:rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk]
>Sent:	Friday, September 12, 1997 12:58 AM
>To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>Subject:	Re: Faster Than Light Travel
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>At 03:35 PM 9/11/97 -0400,  Joachim Heck wrote:
>>Chris McCurry writes:
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>>@:) But thinking about it, I can only think of three truly different
>>@:) ways to travel at high speeds in S.Fiction.  Every thing else is
>>@:) just a variation of one of those themes:
>>@:) 
>>@:) 1) hyperspace / warp space / worm holes / etc.
>>@:) 2) Folding / warping (changing the reality of space time)
>>@:) 3) conventional travel
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>>  I think you're right.  Basically you either traverse some space to
>SNIP
>>  The closest thing I can think of that is any different from any of
>>these is some kind of teleoperation/astral projection scheme, but then
>>you're not really going anywhere, I guess, so it doesn't count.
>>
>>  I too would be very interested to hear any ideas that are somehow
>>different from these apparently catch-all transportation methods.
>>
>>-joachim
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>There's Harry Harrison's "bloater drive" from "Bill the Galactic Hero"-
the
>distances between the particles of the ship are enlarged hugely, while
>keeping the ship's stern fixed at the point of departure.  Relatively
tiny
>star-systems can be seen appearing to float through the ship.	When the
bow
>arrives at its destination, it is fixed there.  The stern is released,
and
>the vessel is "de-bloated"....
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>Rob Paul
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