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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: seveneves |
| Date | 2015-08-24 20:42 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <d41dt8Forj9U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2015-08-24, Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-08-24, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>>
>> Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 2015-08-24, Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The best apocalypse novel is still "A canticle for Leibowitz",
>>>> where you get to around chapter three before you realise that this
>>>> is around 500 years in the future, and the great fall of civilization
>>>> was not that of the Roman Empire, but of ours. Not ~700 AD, rather
>>>> ~2500 AD.
>>
>> A classic!
>>
>>> Agreed. William Gibsons last was disappointing [To me]...
>>
>> Yeah, a fail for both Stephenson and Gibson in the same year. A
>> diappointment indeed. In both cases, whatever it is that has given
>> each author's works their peculiar, unique and ineffable qualities
>> seems to be missing.
>>
>>> ...and there is a threat of another Pratchett coming out. Did they
>>> transfer his intellagence to a computer
>>
>> You're not dead as long as your name is spoken. See NNTP headers
> ?
> .
You'll see a number of people, myself included, now have an NNTP header
that reads;
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
--
Today is Sweetmorn, the 17th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3181
I don't have an attitude problem.
If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.
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Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 20:42 +0000
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Re: seveneves Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-26 13:59 +0100
Re: seveneves Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-26 13:20 +0000
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Re: seveneves "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 16:18 -0500
Re: seveneves Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:09 -0400
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Re: seveneves Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 09:18 +0000
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Re: seveneves jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
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Re: seveneves Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-08-28 12:15 -0400
Re: seveneves Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-28 13:09 -0400
Re: seveneves Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-27 20:20 +0000
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