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Article #623946Re: George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:35
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:35
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On 2018-06-22, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:58:02 -0500 > JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:47:30 -0400, Peter Flass >> <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> The Andromeda Strain movie sucked... a satellite in orbit equipped >> >> with a vacuum ? Nonsense. >> > >> >Plenty of raw material there for one ;-) >> >> I found the book much more scary. A set of instructions was sent to >> Earth. Turns out it was a DNA/android sequence. Once she was built, >> she started killing people and couldn't be stopped. > > That's a different book and far less plausible. > >> The movie just used a disease captured by satellite which crashed and >> killed a small town except for a homelss man and a baby. > > Yep that's the book I have. > Robots running amok are a problem. There was a rumr that the US ARMy tested one in Iraq, whid did, but nothing solid (news). There is a lot of work being done with farming machines, the Japanese vehicle maker Kubota took over a US company that did the same, and is selling large robot tractors. AFAAIK, insurance is a problem, there is not enough data yet to show how liable really bad 'f*** UPS' are. -- greymaus.ireland.ie Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man
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