Re: A different trans****tation threada (Re: Aside from THE ROLLING STONES)

In article <fvkosp$8j7$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, James Nicoll writes:
>In article <fvkm77$811$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, James Nicoll
<jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>>	Come to think of it, there are lots of ways to break a 
>>mass trans****tation system, both public and private.

>	Generalizing somewhat, Wil McCarthy's Queendom of Sol is 
>an example of massive fail where infrastructure is concerned,
>starting with the decision to built a mildly convenient communications
>system whose failure mode could destroy the entire solar system.

I believe that total and catastrophic failure of the most commonly used
form of trans****tation was a key element of _The Fall of Hyperion_, with
billyuns and billyuns of people stranded on planets far from home.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
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