Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:55:33 +0000 From: "Riley McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What's the daemon chasing? Message-ID: <199709020605.XAA19714@train.tgci.com> In-Reply-To: <199709020125.KAA00498@word.smith.net.au> References: Your message of "Mon, 01 Sep 1997 17:58:21 %2B0930." <19970901175821.15741@lemis.com>
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> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: Re: What's the daemon chasing? > Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 10:55:06 +0930 > From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> > > ps. Microsoft shouted me to go see Contact last night, which is funny > because while I'm a "Sales Partner", I never volunteered for the job > and have never sold any of their "product". All in all, not a bad > movie. Particularly if you remove the bogus reductionist "religious" > philosophy. However, about halfway through I realised that I had read > the story it was based on *many* years ago. > > At the end of the movie, the credits claimed that it was based on the > book of the same name by Carl Sagan (I clapped at the "for Carl" credit, > but nobody else got it. Morons.), and that based on a story by Sagan > and someone else. However, I expressly *don't* recall the original > story I read as being written by him; does anyone remember the > original, or have it on their shelf? There was a lot less religious > bunkum, and (IIRC) *three* capsule travellers, not one. > I was pleased to see the "for Carl" credit too but missed the reference to the book. The book was to me the first credible use (kinda--you'd still get squished) of the concept of the wormhole as a means to traverse space-time. Seeing the wormhole brought the book to mind, but it was a couple days later before I recalled Sagan wrote it. And your email reminds me it had a co-author. (I think. I don't trust my memory anymore with respect to suggestion. This month's Scientific American has an interesting article on the (false) memory phenomenon.) Anyway, the book was worth reading, but I don't know if I'd read it again solely because of its literary value. I wish M$ had bought my ticket! :) Riley
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