From atakahashi@netcom.com Thu Feb 23 16:33:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!netcom!atakahashi From: atakahashi@netcom.com (Andrei Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Feb23.163343.6432@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 16:33:43 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' What happened when Unit-7 started writing its own lyrics about locked doors and microwave carriers? -- Andrei Takahashi SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "Hold for relay." From tsato@inria.fr Sat Feb 25 06:42:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!tsato From: tsato@inria.fr (Tobias Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Feb25.064243.5933@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 06:42:43 GMT References: <1995Feb23.163343.6432@netcom.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Feb23.163343.6432@netcom.com>, atakahashi@netcom.com (Andrei Takahashi) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. > 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' The tragedy is that Unit-7 actually developed consciousness. She realized what she was and tried to broadcast a cry for help. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- === Tobias Sato === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From sandersson@illinois.edu Sun Feb 26 18:38:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!illinois!sandersson From: sandersson@illinois.edu (Sun-mi Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Feb26.183843.3098@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 18:38:43 GMT References: <1995Feb23.163343.6432@netcom.com> <1995Feb25.064243.5933@inria.fr> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb25.064243.5933@inria.fr>, tsato@inria.fr (Tobias Sato) writes: > The tragedy is that Unit-7 actually developed consciousness. She realized what she was and tried to broadcast a cry for help. Neural networks in 1981 couldn't even recognize a picture of a cat, let alone synthesize an entire rock star. -- Sun-mi Andersson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0