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From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Sure we can!
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Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 16:00:38 EST
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   Tish, tosh.  If we were able to travle faster than light,
we'd new definitions of simultaneity and causality, it's true.
That still doesn't make such travel physically impossible.
   We have no idea of exactly what is physically impossible.
We know a great many things that are >possible<, are at least that
were possible the last time that we tried them.  The fact that
something hasn't yet been done, or that nobody's yet thought of a way
to do it, doesn't mean that it can't be done.  If that was the case, then
(anecdote of your choice: man would never have flown, Columbus would
never have flown to the moon; whatever).
   Besides, FTL travel makes for a damned convenient plot device.

-Kieran A. Carroll
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