From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 1 22:51:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA16799 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from train.tgci.com (train.tgci.com [205.185.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA16794 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newmicronpc (pool043-max2.la-ca-us.dialup.earthlink.net [207.217.3.118]) by train.tgci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA19714; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:05:50 -0700 Message-Id: <199709020605.XAA19714@train.tgci.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Riley McIntire" Organization: The Grantsmanship Center To: Mike Smith Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:55:33 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: What's the daemon chasing? CC: FreeBSD Chat Priority: normal In-reply-to: <199709020125.KAA00498@word.smith.net.au> References: Your message of "Mon, 01 Sep 1997 17:58:21 +0930." <19970901175821.15741@lemis.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > To: Greg Lehey > Cc: FreeBSD Chat > Subject: Re: What's the daemon chasing? > Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 10:55:06 +0930 > From: Mike Smith > > ps. Microsoft shouted me to go see Contact last night, which is funny > because while I'm a "Sales Partner", I never volunteered for the job > and have never sold any of their "product". All in all, not a bad > movie. Particularly if you remove the bogus reductionist "religious" > philosophy. However, about halfway through I realised that I had read > the story it was based on *many* years ago. > > At the end of the movie, the credits claimed that it was based on the > book of the same name by Carl Sagan (I clapped at the "for Carl" credit, > but nobody else got it. Morons.), and that based on a story by Sagan > and someone else. However, I expressly *don't* recall the original > story I read as being written by him; does anyone remember the > original, or have it on their shelf? There was a lot less religious > bunkum, and (IIRC) *three* capsule travellers, not one. > I was pleased to see the "for Carl" credit too but missed the reference to the book. The book was to me the first credible use (kinda--you'd still get squished) of the concept of the wormhole as a means to traverse space-time. Seeing the wormhole brought the book to mind, but it was a couple days later before I recalled Sagan wrote it. And your email reminds me it had a co-author. (I think. I don't trust my memory anymore with respect to suggestion. This month's Scientific American has an interesting article on the (false) memory phenomenon.) Anyway, the book was worth reading, but I don't know if I'd read it again solely because of its literary value. I wish M$ had bought my ticket! :) Riley