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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: "Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster" <j...@bftsi0.UUCP>
Date: 2000/11/16
Subject: Re: Message timing (was Re: Slavery in SF and Fantasy)
"Keith Ray" <k_j_r_...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:k_j_r_a_y-EAFDFB.15321716112000@nntp.ix.netcom.com... I think it's the under-appreciated computers doing all the translating. > Really annoying is Star Trek, where every alien they meet not only uses > compatible audio and video transmission spectra and signal encodings, > but (apparently) completely compatible visual and audio spectrums as > well. About 3% (more or less) of mankind doesn't even see colors the > same way as the majority... what would a TV image look like if the > inventors were all red-green colorblind? Insects and people without > corneas can see some wavelengths of ultraviolet... My cheap $99 digital > video camera see infrared! [I removed the glass that filters out > infrared, and added a glass that filters out visible light.] ISTR a few eps of DS9 addressing this. After all, we already know at least some systems are capable of human-level (at least) MI. It's only a matter of time until Voyager's holodoc tries to create some yiffable holo-nurses, borrows some resources from the ship's main computer, and ends up awakening the ship. I wonder how much of the ship's computer's programming is dedicated to keep it from waking up, like the defensive measures against datasphere MIs in Banks' _Feersum Endjinn_. -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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