Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 12:37:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: This unsubs**ibing thing And a legit topic (fwd)




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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 14:39:04 -0600
From: ropella-ge-glen <ropella-AT-lvs-emh.lvs.loral.com>
To: technology-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: This unsub**ibing thing And a legit topic


I have no idea how many people have unsubs**ibed lately; but,
it sure seems that alot of people who want to unsubs**ibe don't
know how to.  [grin]  Now forgive me for my elitism; but, I think
that says something about the type of people that are unsubs**ibing. ;-)

Anyway, I have what I think is a "technology" question.

A friend of mine is making a movie about a UFO encounter.  He's asked
me, his science-type-friend [grin], to help him thrash out some of 
the more believable types of alternate technology for his fictional
alien species to use.

We've touched on bio-tech (e.g. using airborne bacteria to communicate),
mechano-tech (e.g. scissors, cars, assembly lines, etc), psyche-tech
(telepathy, telekinesis, etc.), and what I call info-tech (modeling the
environment with mathematical and physical theories and then basing
your interaction with the environment upon those pieces of info -- the
theories, e.g. newtonian mechanics, engineering, most of science in 
general).

He's looking for ideas in any of these areas.  Any comments?  Ideas?

-- 
glen e. ropella  &&  ropella-AT-lvs-emh.lvs.loral.com
p.s. Feel free to tell me that this kind of crap doesn't belong here. [grin]




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