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Message no. 1
From: PDL@****.dacom.co.kr
Subject: Drone Question
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 10:38:16 PST
Has anyone designed a drone that is capable of delivering a chemical or solid substance?
Like a crop duster?

Patrick
Message no. 2
From: abortion_engine abortion_engine@*******.com
Subject: Drone question
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:06:48 -0500
From: "Rand Ratinac" <docwagon101@*****.com>
> What do you think? Is that how it would, or should,
> work? If so, rigger-boy is never going to go into
> combat without rigging himself. Sure, it'd feel
> strange (or maybe not - in effect, his body becomes
> his body, according to what we know of how rigging
> feels), but he'd be mundo more effective. And he'd be
> able to rig himself and other drones at the same time
> in captain's chair mode if he really wanted.

Here's a question; is the sensation of rigging embedable? That is to say,
would his body become his body become his body, ad infinitum. Would it be
like standing in between two paralell mirrors? I don't see why it would be,
but my brain isn't firing on all cylinders right now.

In short, is self-rigging a self-attracting, self-centering recursive force,
a fractal perception, like pointing a video camera at a television? If so,
your perceptions would be hampered somewhat by the extra data.

> Would he be able to get a Pilot rating for his body?

Yes. <giggle> Oh, yes.

> Would he need to remove the RAS override from his VCR
> in order for his body to move at all?

That's a very good question. I think not.

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