Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:49:42 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Maltese Falcon, was  Who said: SF is fantasy with nuts and bolts painted on?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> twhite8 at cox.net 4/1/2005 6:49:32 PM >>>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <MarkLFischer at aol.com>
>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 3:48 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Who said: SF is fantasy with nuts and bolts
>painted on?
>
>> In a message dated 4/1/2005 2:44:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> omni at omniphile.com writes:
>>
>> >Small quibble...teleportation does exist.  It's been done in the
>lab.
>Only
>> >useful so far if you want to ship quantum particles  though.
>>
>> That's a reach.  One cannot step into a booth and be whisked  off
>to
>another
>> place, and it's highly unlikely that we will be able to do so
anytime
>soon.
>> Teleportation is a McGuffin, just like the Fairy Godmother's  magic

>wand.
>
>No, no.  Not a McGuffin.  The actual Maltese Falcon was a McGuffin.
>Elements of magic are not...unless they are the object of a quest.

Got your Maltese Falcon right here:
http://www.btco.net/ghosts/Buildings/Falcon/falcon.html

>
>--Ted White
>