Talk:Venus Equilateral

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[edit] Removal from "Venus Equilateral Relay Station"

I removed the following: The only fictional technology in the stories is the driver tube, a little-understood technology that allows interplanetary spacecraft to travel under continuous acceleration. This would appear to be disproved in the summaries of the stories, which mention techonologies such as the "duplicator machine", among others. Feel free to let me know if I misinterpreted something... --Lenoxus 01:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

You're right. Other fictional technologies that come to mind are gravanol and the Martian energy-transmission tube. The latter is the "little-understood" one; I didn't get that impression about the driver tube, though of course it's not explained.

—wwoods 07:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)