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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Kari Seppälä:
>
> I get retro-feeling, this time ain't no more than replica of somewhere 60's -
> 70's where there was also huge pile of different new gizmos & technologies, most
> of them were not compatible with anything else... like 8-track cassettesystems
> in car-audio...
it's been well over ten years since I sat in a car that had
a working eight-track player. I guess they've already made
it into the Museum of Obsolete Media ?
> After 10 (or even 5) years someones gets a good laugh about this "technological
> hype"...
The invention of the century was cheese-flavored dog food.
since then it's been all downhilll ...
> > Have you read that Stanislaw Lem short-story with an idea of scaceships made
> > of food? Ideal for years-long space travels...
> >
> "Allright smartasses! Who's eaten steering wheel?! We're entering Sirius-system
> and if we don't make a turn, we're gonna get toasted..."
>
> ...should be at least some restrictions about what to eat?
what if the ship is organically-based and runs on biomass and
is semisentient and the computer has delusions of being HAL ?
then it's "eat or be eaten".
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