[TML] Scientific realism

[Richard Aiken]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just don't get it.  If he outguns you, how does getting a passive look
> sooner help you?

You can run away . . . although, technically, you should already be
running away.  If I was a merchant ship captain in 2300 and a black
globe showed up that was on a course that *might* intercept mine, I'd
instantly begin pulling maximum accelleration on an opposing vector.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein