Anothers Name
Duane Hoyt
aa5287 at FREENET.LORAIN.OBERLIN.EDU
Fri Sep 15 17:21:23 EDT 1995
>
>David Hardman writes:
>
>> > As I understood it, he left his real girlfriend on
>> > earth to fly a space mission. Due to the relativistic time dilation
>> > effect which he incurred, she would have been old when he returned
>> > to earth while he would still be the same age.
>>
>> I don't understand this. Surely, all the girl had to do was wait
>> until she was old enough to sign her own medical consent forms to be
>> frozen?
>
>Yeah, I'd always thought that was the bug in the idea.
>
>> Dave Hardman
>
>FoFP
>
>
I also thought this, but then I figured by the time she was of age, she had
found someone else, him being gone so long.
Duane
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