From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V98 #216 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume98/216 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 216 Today's Topics: [B7L] Re: exploding in space [B7L] Re: La Disparu [B7L] Josette again Teleport (was Re: [B7L] Re: exploding in space) [B7L] Fab Films vol.1 [B7L]Rob & Jim!!! Re: [B7L] Re: La Disparu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 14:43:10 +0100 From: Steve Rogerson To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: exploding in space Message-ID: <35D6E1E6.659B3BAB@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Patrick said: "they did not explode because they were in space, they exploded because they were teleported beyond the range of the teleport... that brings up the question of was this a design fault in the teleport" Presumably the teleport has to send the persons atoms and information on how these atoms are put back together. The amount of atoms involved would mean it would probably be impractical to send them as a strream, but rather as a bunch. Over distance this bunch may start to spread. If they spread beyond a certain point, then maybe the system can't get them back together again, or it can just do it but not quite hold it, hence the person appears to have appeared but then explodes. -- cheers Steve Rogerson Redemption 99: The Blakes 7 and Babylon 5 convention 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Ashford, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption/ "Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell" Star Wars ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:09:55 -0400 From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com> To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" Subject: [B7L] Re: La Disparu Message-ID: <199808161910_MC2-5643-6CCF@compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Alison wrote: >Can it be a coincidence that the only 'e' is in Blake - >and he is gone. All of the rest of the crew consider>. Not an 'e' to their names. Er, you omit Jenna? Though of course she is gone too. Harriet ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:23:54 PDT From: "Joanne MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Josette again Message-ID: <19980816232355.3006.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Hello everyone. Presumably the rest of the Australians on the list weren't watching Dalziel and Pascoe on Friday night, or they have a life. Or, because I'm receiving the digest, I haven't read any comments yet. But whoever it was who thought they'd seen Josette Simon on an ad for the beforementioned series was merely a week early. Although, if I'm not confusing this book with another of Reginald Hill's, her character was originally of Asian descent. Interesting casting there, but I've thought so all along. For a start, the actor playing DS Wield isn't ugly enough, but that's due to me having read the books before seeing any of the series. I didn't think Alan Rickman fitted the physical description of Mr Slope as Trollope had written the character. But what do I know? When I was eleven, before I'd seen any episodes of Blake's 7 at all, I thought Avon was a lovely name...for a female character. Guess who had to rethink hastily when she found a copy of Scorpio Attack in her local public library! Regards Joanne Know your road rules: 1. When at a roundabout give way to horsies. Caption to a cartoon by Phil Somerville. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 08:05:06 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen To: "Blake's 7 list" Cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Teleport (was Re: [B7L] Re: exploding in space) Message-ID: <19980817080506.06895@welkin.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 02:43:10PM +0100, Steve Rogerson wrote: > Patrick said: "they did not explode because they were in space, they > exploded because they were teleported beyond the range of the > teleport... that brings up > the question of was this a design fault in the teleport" > > Presumably the teleport has to send the persons atoms and information on > how these atoms are put back together. The amount of atoms involved > would mean it would probably be impractical to send them as a strream, > but rather as a bunch. Over distance this bunch may start to spread. If > they spread beyond a certain point, then maybe the system can't get them > back together again, or it can just do it but not quite hold it, hence > the person appears to have appeared but then explodes. It's a bit tricky figuring out how the teleport works. The problem is that it is a one-station teleport. A two-station teleport makes more sense: you send from one station and recieve at the other: it is the station which does the putting-together (and the taking apart). The transmission station in City At The Edge Of The World was a teleport like this, and of course the interesting thing about it was that there didn't appear to be any (or much) distance limitation between the two stations. But with the Liberator (and with Trek ships too) you often only have one station, the one on the ship. So how can it reassemble the molecules at a distance? Or to put it another way, if it is transmitting them, what's to stop the transmission from zapping on into infinity, like radio waves? What is it that says "hey, you've travelled far enough, now stop!" An alternative explanation is not that it is a transmission, but a temporary mini-wormhole, that gets created between the sending station and the point of materialization. The distance limitation could be due to the difficulty of controlling the other end of the wormhole beyond a certain distance: the "transmission" part (which as we know can be interfered with by certain electronic grids or force fields or depths of rock) could be the signals used to control the "free" end of the wormhole. If the distance is too great, the free end of the wormhole is unstable, and shreds the teleportee into their component molecules. The wormhole theory is consistent with the City teleport, if we assume that it had no distance limitation because both ends of the wormhole were controlled by their relative stations: there was no "free" end of the wormhole. Note that with the City teleport, it was also not necessary for the ends of the wormhole to be stationary relative to each other: the door-to-the-other-world took the explorers to a spaceship travelling to the distant star system, and the reason they died was because it hadn't arrived yet, not because the teleport didn't work. -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen / \ | http://home.connexus.net.au/~kat \_.--.*/ | #include "standard/disclaimer.h" v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 19:53:00 +1000 From: alpak To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Fab Films vol.1 Message-ID: <35D7FD7B.AA661A49@ozemail.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope no one minds me posting this here but I have a surplus copy of Vol.1 of the new Blake's 7 video from fabulous films. This tape features (naturally) The Way Back and Spacefall and is one of the 7000 ltd ed cover versions. I am only asking $25(Aust) for the tape, which I think is good value considering it hasn't been watched and to import these tapes from the UK costs about $40(Aust). If anyone is interested in purchasing it from me please email me. Postage is free to anywhere in Australia. Thanks and once again I hope one minds me posting this. Gerard. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:04:46 +1000 From: Narrelle Harris & Tim Richards To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L]Rob & Jim!!! Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980817220446.007b1380@wire.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hiy fellahs! I'm afraid my PC has just died the death (Good night, sweet C Drive, and flights of angels see thee to thy rest...)and so I need your email addresses again. I have the Emergency Laptop to keep me in touch, so email will get to me. Drop me a line and I'll keep you up to date on the bids. Thanks. Narrelle Harris ************************************* parallax@wire.net.au "It's better to be weird than average." Relle's motto ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:12:52 +0100 From: "Alison Page" To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: La Disparu Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Can it be a coincidence that the only 'e' is in Blake - > >and he is gone. All of the rest of the crew >consider>. Not an 'e' to their names. > > Er, you omit Jenna? Though of course she is gone too. > > Harriet Yes, that's right. I was talking about the 3rd and 4th season. The idea that 'Blakes 7' by that time was defined by an absence, just like 'La Disparu'. None of this applies to seasons 1 and 2. Alison -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V98 Issue #216 **************************************