On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Tom wrote:
>Ray Dillinger wrote:
>> Here's an interesting thought, though. There are all kinds of
>> number generators already hanging in the sky, and some of them
>> are fairly random, so this thing might actually have a prayer
>> of working.
>
>that, of course, requires that you trust THOSE. now it is highly
>unlikely (though not impossible) that the NSA thought of this, say, 10
>years ago, and it would be an extremely costly operation to secretly
>modify those birds, but that only gives confidence, not trust.
I was not talking about artificial satellites. I was talking about
chaotic processes observable with telescopes.
Bear
