From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 16:36:14 MDT
At 12:56 PM 5/26/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
wrote:
> > notarized and I'm set. Folks at the office were joking about getting
> > me a special spacesuit with a built-in guillotine and a liquid
> > nitrogen bottle. Nice to know they care...
>
>Stanislav Lem covered that ground with built-in guillotine
>vitrificators in his diglators (crawl-in walking machine)
>in Fiasko.
Actually, there was no guillotine in them. It was whole body.
At least, this was how it was in the English translation.
But the concept should not be taken as a joke. The point
in the novel was to have a last chance at life if the pilot of
the walker (diglator) was in grave danger.
Cheers!
Daniel Ust
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