Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe'

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On 07/18/2015 09:20 AM, HVAC wrote:
>
> There was a short scifi story I read as a kid (Asimov?) where a
> scientist built a computer to solve the problem of the universe's
> ultimate demise.
>
> As entropy increased, the computer became smarter and over the years and
> eons, rebuilt itself many times. Finally it existed only in hyperspace
> and it watched as the final stars winked out.
>
> After an immeasurable time and with no humans nor any living things
> around, it finally devised a solution..
>
> It said to no one in particular:
>
> "LET THERE BE LIGHT"

That's not science fiction, it's pure fantasy.   You can't reverse 
entropy by just making a wish and saying let it be so.  Science fiction 
is more like Asimov's story "The Martian Way", where a McCarthyesque 
politician on Earth finagles an embargo on all water exports to Mars, so 
the colonists there go "fine" and haul it in as ice from the rings of 
Saturn.

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Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 12:20 -0400
  Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 14:11 -0400
    Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' "W.T.S." <m14m@earthlink.net> - 2015-07-18 17:41 -0500
    Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' "W.T.S." <m14m@earthlink.net> - 2015-07-27 10:30 -0500
  Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' talishi <talishi@example.net> - 2015-07-18 13:18 -0700
    Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' "W.T.S." <m14m@earthlink.net> - 2015-07-18 17:44 -0500
      Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' talishi <talishi@example.net> - 2015-07-19 07:52 -0700
    Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-07-19 07:49 -0400
      Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-20 02:22 -0400
    Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' "W.T.S." <m14m@earthlink.net> - 2015-07-27 10:30 -0500

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