From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 07:30:38 MDT
--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Michael M. Butler wrote:
>
> > ANDERS: "Are you sure you didn't pull that lever?" ELIEZER:
> "Pretty sure.
> [snip]
>
> ROTFL, in fact ROTFL (in tears).
>
> This (combined with the several posts leading up to it) has to
> be the best exchange I've ever seen on the Extro list (at least
> in my recent memory).
>
> It is missing only a few elements.
>
> > JEFF DAVIS: You *really* shouldn't pull that lever. It may
> > significantly impact ship's operations.
> > DAMIEN BRODERICK: Oh come on... I can cite at least a dozen
> > SciFi novels where pulling the lever had no effect at all.
> > SPIKE JONES: Will pulling the lever produce another Mersenne Prime?
MIKE LORREY: Go ahead and pull it. What could go wrong? According to my
breeder reactor blueprints, that lever just adjusts the reactor from
'breed' to 'burn'....
ELIEZER: This IS NOT a breeder reactor, it is a light water reactor.
MIKE LORREY: No wonder it has no pick up. This ship handles like a
barge.
ROBERT BRADBURY: I've got my grey goo handy in case anything goes
wrong. In 2^8 seconds the mess will be cleaned up and we'll all be
uploaded and living large in nanotopia.
OLGA BOURLIN: I don't believe that lever is there, therefore it doesn't
exist.
MIKE LORREY: Materialist....
HARVEY NEWSTROM: Pulling the lever is silly. We have far more serious
things to discuss that impact extropy far more than whether the lever
needs to be pulled or not.
LEE CROCKER: Go ahead and pull it. My odds reference says there's only
a 1/287th chance something will go wrong before we have time to correct
it. Besides, this isn't a democracy. Just DO it.
BARBARA LAMAR: My Westlaw says that you will need three environmental
impact statements completed and in triplicate before you can pull that
lever...
ALEX BOKOV: Screw Westlaw, we live in the outlaw now...
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
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