GR: Explosion

[Evan M Corcoran]

I'm sure this is old news, but it seems to me that GR implies that ev-
erything outside of itself is an explosion.  See, the book ends with a
rocket landing on a theater, and the hymn is cut off by the explosion -
BOOM - book over, into the world again.  Then turning back to the begin-
ning, we hear the rocket's whine in the sky, catching up to the super-
sonic machine: it's just landed, the explosion is over, somebody else
got hit.  But by the time we get to the end it's us getting hit, again.
So the book is (obviously) the construction and launching of the rocket,
but the world outside the book is the detonation.  Neat, huh?

One other thing, in connection with the WASTE/Internet analogy and the
Clipper debate: reread "Entropy", TRP casually mentions the NSA in, what
was that, 1960?  When the NSA officially didn't exist?

 -EMC