From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 24 1997 - 22:07:57 MST
At 12:09 PM 2/25/97 +1000, you wrote:
>This is one version of what some of us are calling the Linde
>scenario. It is predicated upon the possibility of traversible
>wormholes and baby universes.
Lovely stuff, Mitch! Breathtaking.
>Another spin-off of wormhole technology might be unusual rocket
>designs, in which reaction mass was fed into the rocket via a
>wormhole mounted in front of the engine, from remote stockpiles
>of fuel.
I believe this is the method used in Poul Anderson's 1958 novel THE ENEMY
STARS (serialised under the much more poignant title `We Have Fed Our Sea').
Damien Broderick
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