Sheepish Grin and "Hi there"...

A thread of 2 messages, 26 June 1990 to 26 June 1990, in the order they were sent.

#1355 Sheepish Grin and "Hi there"...

Richard Johnson · 26 June 1990

Hi everybody.  Finally made it to the bottom of the mailbox.
Started about two weeks ago (shortly after Mark called.)

Glad to see you had the good sense to have a party while
the GM was away.  :-)

I suspect that few of us are actually prepared to re-boot
the game just now, so I'k like to table it until around
September or so, when folks start to get back to school,
and (at least it seems right now) that my schedule will
adjust to some sense of normalcy.

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Other things:

Got my pilot's license in May.  Huge :-)
Landing a *little, slow* plane is like trying to parallel
park your car at 60mph--I can't even imagine trying something
silly like high-speed space shuttle passes.

I have a copy of the Zhodani alien module.  Anyone want
to bid on it?

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Thanks again for hanging in there.  It's good to be back,
if only part time.

Richard Johnson

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#1358 Re: (1355) Sheepish Grin and "Hi there"...

C. Harald Koch · 26 June 1990 · reply to #1355

> Got my pilot's license in May.  Huge :-)
> Landing a *little, slow* plane is like trying to parallel
> park your car at 60mph--I can't even imagine trying something
> silly like high-speed space shuttle passes.

When doing high-speed space shuttle passes, you have some pretty
sophisticated computer equipment helping you out.

This kind of system exists now; certain combat aircraft and helicopters
have a 'ground-hugging' autopilot which attempts to travel at a fixed height
above the terrain.  According to sources it works rather well. No human
could do it though; there is too much information and reactions need to be
very fast.

Similar (but much more advanced) computer systems no doubt exist in most
space shuttles, particularly combat drop-shuttles...

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