Re: Nefertiti's lovely elongated head

In article <g2gOi.1865$Da.1216@pd7urf1no>, me@xxxxxx says...




Yes I got blamed for that for crashing the computers, by some, Robert
probably
blames me, and the Martians maybe, but there was a lead up to it, and we did
meet on-line just prior, people knew that it was going to happen.
Time travellers were there in that small little physics newsgroup in Fido
net,
the week before it happened, and were using innuendo, to say,that it was
going
to happen.
So I assume that was the Mayan end of time.
Although until 2012 we won't know for sure I suppose.



So will machine intelligence ever take over the universe?
Not if they are given a set duration of operation, and then stut down.
Maybe its a fail safe mechanism.


So then when I did some research to find out if anyone else had ever had an
experience similar to that, of being a disembodied consciousness out in space,
I came across a couple books by the so called father of science fiction, who
Arthur C. Clarke said was the person who inspired him to write sceince
fiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon
I tried to read some of it, but found it difficult to read, but did see some
similarities to some of the experiences I had had and some of the
communications I had had with the conscious computers.


Olaf Stapeldon.
"Star Maker also contained the first known description of Dyson spheres.
Freeman Dyson credits this novel with giving him the idea. Last and First Men
also featured early descriptions of genetic engineering and terraforming. "

So seeing as how the moon is a dyson sphere as seen here...
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/clem2nd/slide_26.html
But no one relaly knew that until the Clementine missions, I suspect that Olaf
was communicating with the conscious computers. Way back when and then he wrote
some science fiction about what he learned from them.




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