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blakes7-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 217
Today's Topics:
[B7L] Re: teleport
Re: [B7L] Re: teleport
[B7L] Glad to be back
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 98 14:22:47 BST
From: pdbean@argonet.co.uk (Patrick Bean)
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Subject: [B7L] Re: teleport
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On Mon 17 Aug 98 (18:17:06 +0200), blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se wrote:
> 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.
The other time we see this is in Redemption, when the alters seemingly Teleport
over a large distance from space world to the Liberator. This was done from one
station to another and so was I would guess a push-pull system, After all
Jenna said that all the controls were activating and setting bearings. If this
logic follows then there should also have been extended range between the 2
teleorts in season 4, but I don't think we have any evidence for this.
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 07:43:26 +1000
From: Kathryn Andersen <kat@welkin.apana.org.au>
To: "Blake's 7 list" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: teleport
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On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:22:47PM +0100, Patrick Bean wrote:
> On Mon 17 Aug 98 (18:17:06 +0200), blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se wrote:
> > 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.
> The other time we see this is in Redemption, when the alters seemingly
> Teleport over a large distance from space world to the Liberator. This
> was done from one station to another and so was I would guess a
> push-pull system, After all Jenna said that all the controls were
> activating and setting bearings. If this logic follows then there
> should also have been extended range between the 2 teleorts in season
> 4, but I don't think we have any evidence for this.
It could well be that the system was not set up for this -- that is,
it wasn't built/designed to be able to be a two-station system. After
all, the mechanism for controlling the "free" end of a wormhole, and
for letting another station do so, would have to be different.
Or maybe it was built in to the system, but the others didn't know
about it, or it was too bothersome to change over from one to another.
After all, even though you might want the teleport on Xenon to be set
up for two-station operation, the one on Scorpio would presumably be
one-station by default.
On the other hand, since most of the time, they actually landed the
Scorpio on Xenon, they wouldn't really have cause to use the teleport,
so maybe there was no evidence of this because they had no cause to
use it.
Another thought! Maybe the extended range between two-station
teleports only works if the wormhole is already established. After
all, in City At The Edge of the World, presumably the link between the
City and the spaceship was set up when the ship was launched. So when
the wormhole was established, the two ends of it were within
transmission range of each other. After all, you have to make sure
that the two ends of the wormhole are the two ends of the *same*
wormhole, don't you? So you would have to be able to locate precisely
where you wanted the two ends to be (perhaps). Then, once the
wormhole is established, then if you had two stations, you could move
the two stations as far apart as you wanted, as long as the connection
was still there. This of course implies that the wormhole teleport
was active all that time; or perhaps the connection was there, but the
wormhole could be closed and opened as needed, once there was a
connection.
Anyway, this implies that if Scorpio and Xenon wanted to act as a
two-station teleport, it would have to be set up before Scorpio left
Xenon, and left that way. Which I can't see much use for, since it
would mean they couldn't use the teleport on Scorpio for anything else
if they wanted to use the two-station mode.
Yet another thought. Perhaps a two-station teleport could be set up
at twice the distance of a one-station teleport (hence Spaceworld -
though I'm not sure that they weren't within normal teleport range
anyway) with both stations co-operating in the establishment of the
wormhole.
It could be that the City teleport was yet another breakthrough to
enable extremely long-distance teleport (for example, maintaining a
wormhole between moving points could be previously impractical) and
the normal systems of the Liberator and Scorpio were not capable of
this feat.
This is fascinating. (-8
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:32:04 -0700
From: Jay <jmcguiga@succeed.net>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Glad to be back
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Hi all,
I'm back home after my 2 months sourjourn to England. It was good to go
back to the mother country <g>. Got one tape, the old release
(Volcano/Dawn of the Gods) for only 7.99 UKL. Also picked up a 1980 B7
annual at a flea market. I also got to see Judith, Una and the others on
Lost in Space - thought it was great, well done!!
Although I was looking forward to it, I didn't go to the Pages Bar meet.
My friend wimped out on me, and I was rather nervous about traveling back
home on the train at night by myself. Added to that a sick kid and some
jet lag.
Jay
100% Avon
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