Article 28 of alt.alien.visitors

Article 28 of alt.alien.visitors:
Path: ns-mx!uunet!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!augean!gvokalek
From: gvokalek@augean.ua.OZ.AU (George Vokalek)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: galactic virus
Keywords: Aliens, information
Message-ID: <939@augean.ua.OZ.AU>
Date: 21 Oct 90 13:06:22 GMT
References: <SLEHAR.90Oct17085057@bucasd.bu.edu> <31444@netnews.upenn.edu>
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Organization: Engineering Faculty, University of Adelaide, Australia
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>In his article <SLEHAR.90Oct17085057@bucasd.bu.edu>, slehar introduced an
>interesting hypothesis about alien "propoganda invasion." Others have suggested
>that aliens may be machine intelligences capable of transmitting themselves
>to computers here on Earth.

Read Fred Hoyle's 'A For Andromeda', which also appeared as a TV
series in the UK.

The alien invader is a radio transmission from interstellar space.  It is
partially decoded by a scientist who recognises it as the plans for
the construction of a computer.  The computer is built, and promptly
begins to genetically 'cook' the biological version of the aliens in
a laboratory.

It makes sense, since the information needed to propagate the race
travels at the speed of light, in (possibly) all directions, and with
little cost.

 ..G..


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