In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/05/2008
at 11:53 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Of course there are. But as long as there is a person left on earth
>there would be attempt(s) to devaporize (I know there is no such word)
>but if Star Trek can materialize someone and dematerialize someone
Star Trek is fiction.
>there would be attempts to get the data back
And no doubt there would be attempts to get the drive back from the sun.
Attempts don't bother me as long as they are doomed to fail.
>There will always be some attempt to get back a
>vaporized (anything) if its valuable enough was my point,
Who cares about attempts to do the impossible?
>obviously I did not make it well enough.
You made the point that someone would try well enough. What you didn't do
was to provide a reason to believe that there was the remotest chance of
success. Appeals to a TV series are not reasons to believe.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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