Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Number 5 Lives again - sorry it is Forth and Philae Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 04:42:48 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <03bde4d2-47af-4663-bee0-9968f8d0ad23@googlegroups.com> <32a2afd9-f302-4515-a947-7e5f9a96a19c@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:39781 On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:48:32 -0400, Jason Damisch wrote: > On Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 3:30:08 PM UTC-7, hughag...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I'd like to build a big spaceship and put all the sales-people >> of Earth on it --- > > Didn't something like that happen in the Hitchikers Guide to > the Galaxy series? (since we are clearly off-topic) What science fiction author didn't do that at some point? Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, ... Star Trek, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica TV series, ... To a lesser extent, as background in Blade Runner, Total Recall, Aliens, Red Dwarf, ... Rod Pemberton -- It's time to put an end to gun violence! Use a hammer ...