At 3:57 am -0500 11/23/96, Bill Frantz wrote:
For the fans of E.E.(Doc) Smith, go see this movie.
Lensmen of the world untie your bracelets! Free yourselves from your weevil capitalist masters!
OBCrypto: Data locks the main computer with a fractal cypher.
Known source of entropy, those fractals. ;-). Ah... DreckPhysics. Gotta love it.
OBMoney: Picard states the they don't have money in the 24th century. Instead they work for the good of mankind.
Hrm. Looks like they're ripping off Iain Banks too. :-). First Niven, now Banks. Life is hard when you have to keep that production pipe full...
Nanotechnology must have made everything material possible, so the only reward left is status (aka reputation).
Funny, I didn't think they had nano in the 23rd century. Except for the "Genesis Bomb". No, wait, that was matte painting, wasn't it? Even Babylon 5, AKA "Science Fiction He Wrote", has a bigger clue. Feh. Yes. I know. Resistance is futile. I've been assimilated. I'll go anyway... ;-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/