On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

On 2/15/2016 9:44 AM, Richard Aiken wrote:

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list)
<xxxxxx@simplelists.com <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com>> wrote:

So, I do not accept that it cannot be possible that, w/i the TU, it
will still be possible to lose ships w/o a trace..

If ships can NOT be lost without a trace within the TU, then how do we
explain all those accidental colonies which started out as the survivors
of crash-landed ships?

You're not in disagreement. Phil just layered his negatives and possibles a little too deeply/confusingly there.

Oh! I know! Sorry!

My reply was actually aimed at G. Chalik, not at Phil. I guess I should have made that explicit.

Richard Aiken

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