Re: EXTROPY: The Fragrance?

From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 19:23:49 MST


Look, blokes should smell of beer, sweat and pickled onions, and anyone who
disagrees with me is a wimp.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon McClenahan" <SMcClenahan@ATTBI.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 18:46
Subject: Re: EXTROPY: The Fragrance?

> For an entity that is sophisticated enough to have a natural language
> interface, I doubt that it would need any sort of container. A nanobot
cloud
> could be told to stay put, maybe self-contained in some sort of appealing
> user-configurable shape, or mask the smell of my armpits as appropriate
for
> the social norms that I am mingling with. These nanobots would have to
> self-destruct after they have been consumed by an olfactory sense, simply
> for the reason that the manufacturer would make money by manufacturing
more
> for market demand :-)
>
> cheers,
> Simon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Loree Thomas" <loreetg@yahoo.com>
> To: <extropians@extropy.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:34 PM
> Subject: Re: EXTROPY: The Fragrance?
>
>
> >
> > --- Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Okay what does the fragrance "Extropy" smell like?
> >
> > It would be user configurable (i.e. it would smell
> > however you wanted it to smell) with a natural
> > language interface.
> >
> > > What does the container look like?
> >
> > A Klein Bottle, of course!
> >
> > http://www.kleinbottle.com/kline_bottle.htm
>
>



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 13:37:40 MST