Re: 1958 Crisis in education

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From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:30

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On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:28:52 +0000, Huge wrote:

> On 2018-07-17, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 10:41:43 +0000, Huge wrote:
>>
>>> s/nanobots/non-existent technology/
>>> 
>>> I'm as big an SF fan as the next man (there are several thousand SF
>>> books in the adjacent room right now), but I think you need to be a
>>> little more realistic.
>>
>> But...But...! You don't *need* nanobots! You simply miniaturise a
>> submarine and crew!
> 
> Isn't Raquel Welch a tad ... old ... to be doing plumbing?    :o)
> 
> Apropos of nothing, the story that the original film and Isaac Asimov's
> novelisation is based on was co-written by Jerome Bixby, author of one
> of the best SF short stories ever written, "It's a Good Life";
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life

That one still creeps me out. I get worried I'm going to end up in the 
field.


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