On Thursday 24 July 2008 14:43, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Hmm, big
laser and a Mars-mounted reflector? Cue "world's biggest
> computer " and "world's first interplanetary computer" threads
:-)
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Mars? What the heck do you do then when it's
on the other side of the
sun?
System maintenance?
Reroute the packet through Jupiter?
Ask the mice for a system reconfiguration?
:-)
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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