1996-11-23 - Re: Star Trek: First Contact

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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Reply To: <199611230853.AAA10184@netcom6.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-11-23 18:48:41 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:48:41 -0800 (PST)

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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:48:41 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Star Trek: First Contact
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At 3:57 am -0500 11/23/96, Bill Frantz wrote:
>For the fans of E.E.(Doc) Smith, go see this movie.

Lensmen of the world untie your bracelets! Free yourselves from your weevil
capitalist masters!

>OBCrypto: Data locks the main computer with a fractal cypher.

Known source of entropy, those fractals. ;-). Ah... DreckPhysics. Gotta
love it.

>OBMoney: Picard states the they don't have money in the 24th century.
>Instead they work for the good of mankind.

Hrm. Looks like they're ripping off Iain Banks too. :-). First Niven, now
Banks. Life is hard when you have to keep that production pipe full...

>Nanotechnology must have made
>everything material possible, so the only reward left is status (aka
>reputation).

Funny, I didn't think they had nano in the 23rd century. Except for the
"Genesis Bomb". No, wait, that was matte painting, wasn't it?

Even Babylon 5, AKA "Science Fiction He Wrote", has a bigger clue.

Feh.

Yes. I know. Resistance is futile. I've been assimilated. I'll go anyway...

;-).

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga




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