From:	mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject:	Re: CHECK THIS OUT EVERYONE! (fwd)
Date:	Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:12:48 -0700 (PDT)

According to Evan Hughes:
> You could always just use the air-duct itself as a conductor, so you
>wouldn't have to worry about dragging the cable along (although depending
>on the quality of the duct this might be iffy *shrug*). Or you could
>lob a self propelled camera (penut size) over the perimeter and have it
>wander around taking pictures every minute or two and sending them back as
>quick freq. mobile databursts -- or it may just store a few hundred
>pictures and then go home when it's memory was filled...

That's possible, but when I actually implemented this idea on a run I was
doing, I wanted something I could deposit and retrieve from just about
anywhere, where just about anywhere meant the top of a hotel in Hong Kong
(_many_ stories tall). The damn thing actually worked, too! Thank God for
Skills A though: I needed every point of Electronics and Build/Repair to put
the thing together. And it didn't help that it was _me_ that got nerve-gassed
when trying to break into a briefcase holding a deck our team stole from the
opposition, but hey, I managed to only take D Stun. =)
--
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