STL vs FTL

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com · 22 Dec 2007, 06:06 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com (thalassocrat at nym.hush.com)
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:06:05 +1100
Subject: (urth) STL vs FTL
Message-ID: <20071222060605.957E3D0038 at mailserver10.hushmail.com>



On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:01:52 +1100 Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> 
wrote:
>
>Possible - Typhon's "dry" dialogue indicates he is familiar with 
>some 
>form of suspended animation that might allow STL travel between 
>multiple 
>stars by a particular person, but there still needs to be time for 

>the 
>news of Typhon's need to travel to many worlds and the various 
>doctors 
>from each of them to travel back with enough time left to perform 
>the 
>procedure.  Typhon's natural lifetime could have been extended by 
>divers 
>means, but given his face orientation, it seems unlikely he would 
>have 
>hibernated while on Urth, waiting for the physicians to arrive.

And also: how could he have been the ruler of many worlds without 
some kind of FTL travel?

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