Posted on 09/20/2011 5:36:05 AM PDT by markomalley
I love the practical nature of FReepers.
I love the practical nature of FReepers.
“The less we put our own good men into hellish situations like that, the better.”
I’m all for that...
Does anyone recall the sci-fi story of the advanced civilization where wars are fought by computers that determine the outcome of a battle?
Then the computers dictates how many casualties were sustained by each army and each side must exterminate that number of people.
I can’t recall if it is a book or perhaps a Star Trek episode.
Star Trek.
Wow. I’d have loved to meet him. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire Foundation series, even after it got repetitive. The whole series in still in my bookshelf. I think I’m going to re-read some of it, just because it’s there.
What a prolific writer, and versatile thinker. Pity he was somewhat left of centre, but that is beside the point.
Oh, I remember now that it was R. Daneel Olivaw, not R. Giskard, that came up with the zeroth law, FWIW.
Thanks for the memory twig.
It was a Star Trek episode.
Regards,
GtG
Stupid special effects folks! Gatlings only fire when the barrels index into one, single, fixed position. In the other positions they are ejecting, loading, and cooling... Totally bogus!
Yeah, I loved how that episode was resolved when Captain Kirk threatened to completely destroy the aggressor planet if they did not stop the exterminations. Prime Directive my butt! :)
Thanks.
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