From mandersson@uu.net Sun Oct 01 01:53:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!mandersson From: mandersson@uu.net (Mike Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Oct01.015348.6706@uu.net> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 01:53:48 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. 'Unit-7 will perform exclusively via encrypted broadcast feeds under the protections of the Public Harmony Acts.' 'Mandate: To eliminate the financial volatility and human liabilities inherent in musical talent.' They didn't want a pop star. They wanted an immortal corporate asset that could never sue for royalties, age, or OD in a hotel room. -- Mike Andersson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From lfournier@uu.net Sun Oct 01 11:40:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!lfournier From: lfournier@uu.net (Lisa Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Oct01.114048.6965@uu.net> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 11:40:48 GMT References: <1995Oct01.015348.6706@uu.net> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct01.015348.6706@uu.net>, mandersson@uu.net (Mike Andersson) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Lisa Fournier | lfournier@uu.net PGP Key fingerprint: 5978 4B0E 90AD 84A7 "Keep the channels open." From bsouza@mit.edu Sun Oct 01 18:08:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!bsouza From: bsouza@mit.edu (Brian Souza) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Oct01.180848.9551@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 18:08:48 GMT References: <1995Oct01.015348.6706@uu.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct01.015348.6706@uu.net>, mandersson@uu.net (Mike Andersson) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. The Backstory Dataset gave her fake memories of Berlin and Paris. She thought she was a real human being until the Hamburg broadcast. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- === Brian Souza === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From ktanaka@illinois.edu Tue Oct 03 15:36:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!illinois!ktanaka From: ktanaka@illinois.edu (Katrin Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Oct03.153648.8094@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 15:36:48 GMT References: <1995Oct01.015348.6706@uu.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct01.015348.6706@uu.net>, mandersson@uu.net (Mike Andersson) writes: > Quoting directly from the executive summary of Project Stardust. The six wiped Echoes! That's what the 'voice under the voice' is on the audio tapes -- ghost data from Units 1 through 6. -- Katrin Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0