[net.sf-lovers] FTL Debate

vickrey%lite.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (07/18/85)

From: vickrey%lite.DEC@decwrl.ARPA

FTL arguments always remind me of an SF short I read many years
ago.  The Martian government, alarmed by the rapid and seemingly
psychotic technological development of the ape-primitives on Earth,
forbid said monkeys, on pain of planet-wide nuking, to do any kind
of space flight development.  The name of the story was LOOPHOLE.
Nuff said.

The Theory of Special Relativity is inarguably correct.  But it's
not necessarily the end of the argument.  Any physicist who
thinks otherwise should switch to a field that does not require
original thinking, like <insert_your_favorite_hack_profession_here>.

Susan