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Still a far cry from "impossible" &, considering the underlying assumptions of the OTU, it'll be infinitely harder to find things lost in space.
Not to even mention hyperspace!
(re: mention in SJG's TNS of a TerranConfed battlecruiser recovered in the 12 century 3I which misjumped during the  Interstellar Wars. With survivors on board, no less!)

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On Mon, 2/15/16, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Instant city
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Monday, February 15, 2016, 1:21 PM

 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>
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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?

   

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  Richard Aiken

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