Re: Hockey, Curling and other sports (some futuristic)

Randy W. Wolfmeyer wrote:

>In a short story I read a long time ago, the main character did just
that
>and then cut the cable at precisely the correct moment to give himself
the
>velocity boost to catch up with a small spacecraft that was running
away
>from the station (it had applied its thrust and was coasting towards
its
>destination, a small asteroid not too far away).  I think it was titled
>"Papa was a Catcher",

It should have been ewntitled "Papa was a targeting computer."	Wow.  I 
can't imagine how risky that would be - getting the velocity and angle
just 
right to avoid either missing the ship entirely or splattering against
it's 
hull...

2B^2

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