Re: Looking for stories....

In <md20hbFmrmjU1@mid.individual.net> ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:

In article <booths-20250707135221@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Lee Gleason <lee.gleason@comcast.net> wrote or quoted:

  That have teleportation across stellar distances, but only to
teleportation booths that have been first been transported to their
destinations by conventional space travel on ships.

>
 Transfer booths only working between fixed locations equipped with
 booths exist in Larry Niven's Ringworld.

I was thinking about that.  Was there a reason given why they aren't
used off-planet?  Maybe they are SPEOL only?

Also... they had to compensate for the differing potential
energies between receiving and transmission sites, as one
could be "traveling" (term used a bit loosely) a lot faster
and in a different direction, and altitude, etc., than
the other.

This would otherwise lead to potentially a hefty chunk of
heat being released at the receiving site.

(This was, iirc, a plot device in one of his stories).

It's bad enough when talking about locations on the
same planet, but if you're looking at space velocities
and energy wells, etc., it's mind boggling...

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