Posted by dorayme on 01/25/07 20:41

In article <6aim84-nho.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>,
Toby Inkster <usenet200701@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

> Andy Dingley wrote:
> > On 24 Jan, 09:39, Toby Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> You can't compare it with 19th century telecommunications because there
> >> were no 19th century attempts to use telecommunications technologies in
> >> space.
> >
> > There certainly were! There's a whole history of attempts to signal to
> > the canal-dwellers of Mars with optical telegraphs.
>
> The signallers were not in space.

Well, they sure were not in zero dimensional space. No 19th
century humans were gods.

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dorayme

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