Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: inter-stellar travel - (nf) Message-ID: <2463@fortune.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 07:05:11 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2463 Posted: Tue Feb 7 07:05:11 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 14:16:47 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 21 #R:sri-arpa:-1633800:fortune:10200010:000:737 fortune!rpw3 Feb 7 03:44:00 1984 If I remember correctly, there was a pair of Fred Hoyle (or Hoyle and Hoyle) novels a long time ago (one of them called "A for Andromeda") in which we started hearing signals from "out there" which we decoded into instructions for making a computer which first tried to take over, and when that didn't work, got us to "build" a biomechanism that was in fact a pretty girl, alive and active. Piers Anthony's "Macroscope" had a similar theme, as did John Varley's "Ophiuchi Hotline" and related stories. Now, if we can only find another race to beam ourselves too... Rob Warnock UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065