Re: Having seen Iron Man

In article <BB2EBHFMqGKIFwrH@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Dr J R Stockton  <reply0820@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>Postulating one type of device incompatible with presently-known
>physics, one must necessarily expect other types of incompatible device.
>The utility of the stated device must depend on what those other devices
>can do.  One perhaps does not need it to power present-type air
>trans****t if, in a similar package, one has a controllable inertia
>damper.

	The character experiences accelerations that should turn him into
paste and an inertial damper would be one way to avoid this. This
technology
is never mentioned, however. 

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