Re: Star Trek Weapon

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:

>	In Larry Niven's "The Theory and Practice of Teleportation"
>	he points out that a transporter teleportation device
>	which does not need a transmitter/receptor pair
>	will destroy the civilizations that make them.

this is incorrect. in niven's example, teleporters are used as nuclear
warhead delivery systems. big rockets can also be used in this role, in
a
way that is essentially the same as teleporters. our civilisation has, i

understand, invented big rockets; why, then, has our civilisation not
been
destroyed?

Tom