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

And what a coincidence that the ship was travelling along/across the
plane running perpendicular to the station's axis of spin... 

I guess it just had to work for him... otherwise the story would be
called "Papa _is_ a Floating Chunk of Debris"

--Flak

On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 11:12, Brian Bilderback wrote:
> 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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