From mkarlsson@demon.co.uk Fri Dec 13 16:53:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!demon!mkarlsson From: mkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Morag Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Dec13.165353.2591@demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 16:53:53 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk 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.' 'The preceding units (Echo-1 through Echo-6) suffered cognitive disintegration and have been terminated and purged from storage.' What happened when Unit-7 started writing its own lyrics about locked doors and microwave carriers? -- Morag Karlsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From msato@kiae.su Sat Dec 14 15:59:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kiae!msato From: msato@kiae.su (Marta Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Dec14.155953.8599@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 15:59:53 GMT References: <1996Dec13.165353.2591@demon.co.uk> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec13.165353.2591@demon.co.uk>, mkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Morag Karlsson) writes: > 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.' They built an AI in 1981... Think about how much computing power that required! They must have had Cray mainframes dedicated to this. -- Marta Sato | msato@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: 79B1 5469 9794 F6C0 "Keep the channels open." From ekarlsson@cern.ch Mon Dec 16 04:21:53 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cern!ekarlsson From: ekarlsson@cern.ch (Élodie Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: Project Stardust leaked memo: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Message-ID: <1996Dec16.042153.5549@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 04:21:53 GMT References: <1996Dec13.165353.2591@demon.co.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Dec13.165353.2591@demon.co.uk>, mkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Morag Karlsson) 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. -- Élodie Karlsson -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."