Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!carol@mit-cipg@mit-mc From: carol%mit-cipg@mit-mc@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: none Message-ID: <12522@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 09:38:57 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12522 Posted: Thu Aug 16 09:38:57 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 02:35:38 EDT Lines: 17 Subject: Matter transmission Michael Kurland wrote a very funny short story which examined several possible problems with m.t. during its early development. The story is called "Small World", and I have it in a paperback short story collection called "Two Views of Wonder". In it, such problems as one guy going in and two coming out (at different destinations), a person whose amino acids are all switched right- handed for left-handed so he can't digest Earth food anymore, and a wife who sues the company because her husband emerged from the transporter without a soul, are raised. Some problems are solved (like the problem of Arabs who go to San Francisco, eat at a posh restaurant and then recite the phrase 'Ay Kan-nod Pai'so that they can spend two weeks of luxury eating prison food). The man whose soul got lost in transit is declared a found object, therefore chattel of the M.T. company. Other problems are left unsolved.