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Re: HVAC is a reptilian Martian taking over the minds of USENET readers

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Date 2016-03-11 19:21 +0000
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HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> wrote:
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> You mean like the multi-trunked alien elephants of Niven and Pournelle? 
> -----------
> 
> Oh shit! I remember reading that book. Was it The Mote In God's Eye?

Footfall.

At least Niven and Pournelle got around the problem of how elephants
could develop technology without hands by having them inherit it from
a race that killed themselves off and carved their knowledge into stone.

Of course that left unanswered the question of why an advanced civilization
would be using stone blocks as an information storage medium.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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      Re: HVAC is a reptilian Martian taking over the minds of USENET readers jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-03-11 07:08 +0000
        Re: HVAC is a reptilian Martian taking over the minds of USENET readers john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 07:02 -0800
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            Re: HVAC is a reptilian Martian taking over the minds of USENET readers HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 11:58 -0800
            Re: HVAC is a reptilian Martian taking over the minds of USENET readers "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 20:24 -0800
              Re: HVAC is a reptilian Martian taking over the minds of USENET readers benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 23:37 -0500
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                Re: HVAC is a reptilian Martian taking over the minds of USENET readers HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 20:49 -0800
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