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  • Re: "Reflex: A Jumper Novel" by Steven Gould

    From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Feb 6 01:35:46 2024
    On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 00:22:46 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Would you like to be able to teleport ? What happens if someone kidnaps
    and chains you to the wall while they "train" you to perform their
    nefarious deeds ?


    what's the down side? there always is one you know...

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Feb 6 13:07:11 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    The Horny Goat <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 00:22:46 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Would you like to be able to teleport ? What happens if someone kidnaps >>and chains you to the wall while they "train" you to perform their >>nefarious deeds ?


    what's the down side? there always is one you know...

    I remember one setting where beginning teleporters often pulled their
    brains out of their heads..
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    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 6 14:43:40 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    The Horny Goat <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 00:22:46 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Would you like to be able to teleport ? What happens if someone kidnaps >>>and chains you to the wall while they "train" you to perform their >>>nefarious deeds ?


    what's the down side? there always is one you know...

    I remember one setting where beginning teleporters often pulled their
    brains out of their heads..

    O'Donnell's Flingers often died at the hands of the kids they were
    trying to train. There's a reason the government treated Flingers
    as living WMDs.

    (one of the necessary secondary powers was being able to match
    velocities while teleporting from one world to another. However,
    they could also teleport a ton of air in place, upping its
    velocity from 0 to 10,000 m/s in the direction of someone who
    annoyed them)
    --
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