But, a lot fewer vessels, and for that matter, aircraft, are lost without trace now than for example even a century ago, never mind two centuries.

Greg

On 16/02/2016 5:14 AM, "Phil Pugliese (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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Exactly, amongst many other things!

Excuse my previous excessive convolution; what I meant to say was that I cannot accept that it will ever be impossible to lose any sort of ship.
Either now or in the future it will always, always, always be possible to lose, w/o a trace, any sort of vessel...

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On Mon, 2/15/16, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Instant city
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Monday, February 15, 2016, 10:44 AM

 On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at
 9:09 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <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?
  
 --
 Richard Aiken
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