From dfischer@demon.co.uk Mon Apr 10 11:13:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!dfischer From: dfischer@demon.co.uk (Dave Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Apr10.111345.1440@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 11:13:45 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' 'The asset designated Unit-7 represents a synthesis of demographic data modeling and neural linguistic generation.' 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. -- Dave Fischer "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From jperez@berkeley.edu Wed Apr 12 15:06:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!jperez From: jperez@berkeley.edu (Ji-woo Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Apr12.150645.4890@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:06:45 GMT References: <1995Apr10.111345.1440@demon.co.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr10.111345.1440@demon.co.uk>, dfischer@demon.co.uk (Dave Fischer) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. The six wiped Echoes! That's what the 'voice under the voice' is on the audio tapes -- ghost data from Units 1 through 6. -- Ji-woo Pérez | jperez@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 26FF 9491 9344 A0BE "Keep the channels open." From bschneider@netcom.com Fri Apr 14 11:51:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!bschneider From: bschneider@netcom.com (Bill Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1995Apr14.115145.4335@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:51:45 GMT References: <1995Apr10.111345.1440@demon.co.uk> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr10.111345.1440@demon.co.uk>, dfischer@demon.co.uk (Dave Fischer) writes: > A contact at a Los Angeles law firm handling Orion's bankruptcy liquidation leaked an internal memo from 1981. > 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Bill Schneider | bschneider@netcom.com PGP Key fingerprint: BADD 35BA 6C5F B580 "Keep the channels open."