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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: inter-stellar travel - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 07:05:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 07:05:11 1984
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#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

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