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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Abyss-breathing fluids
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In <1993Apr29.192623.11760@cc.ic.ac.uk> atae@spva.ph.ic.ac.uk (Ata Etemadi) writes:

>"The Forever War", one of my favorite SciFi books, had a passage devoted to 
>breathing fluids. The idea was to protect people from the high accelerations 
>required for interstellar travel by emersing the passengers in dry-cleaning 
>fluid saturated with oxygen. Plenty of very imaginative ideas is this book.
>I would certainly recommend it (won the Hugo and the Nebula awards).

And most definitely read it in conjunction with Heinlein's _Starship
Trooper_.  The two books are radically different viewpoints of the
same basic premises.  I've even heard tell of English classes built
around this.

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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