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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 202
Message ID: 13
#13, RE: Computers are cool!
Posted by Croaker on Nov-07-01 at 01:59 PM
In response to message #3
>>The Matrix on Gallifrey sounds like it could work. Then there's
>>Yggdrasil, which is reality, which would work. I can think of the
>>Oracle (The one on Cybertron, not Gordon) that might be able to tap
>>this, maybe. Asimov projected theories about computers shunted off
>>into hyperspace which were probably powerful enough. The
>>massivley-parallel-processor that I theorize is Subreality would
>>probably work, but Subreality is neither EPU nor considered a computer
>>by anyone but me. There's the obvious computer, but Zathras works for
>>Washuu...
>
>Yggdrasil is...busy at the moment. Maybe if we built a sister
>computer...
>
>Sub-ethernet (not Shub-ethernet) exists in EPU; interstellar networks
>are instantaneous.
>
>My suggestion: take a cue from SETI and start shipping EoJ
>screensavers. Given the number of sentients (and thus computer users)
>in the galaxy, using all their unclaimed clock cycles just might be
>enough...

Computer users are sentient?

(I work in tech support. I know them too well.)

Anyway, I'm tempted to suggest asking Ben Aaronovitch if you can borrow God.

(Check out Doctor Who New Adventures: The Also People. God was once asked, "Are you a computer?" He replied to the human: "Are you an amoeba?")
>
>--rR


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