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From: dank@calvin.usc.edu (Dan King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: SimEarth Robots
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Date: 11 Jan 91 20:12:00 GMT
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In article <5622@rex.cs.tulane.edu> rawdon@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
>In <29249@usc> dank@calvin.usc.edu (Dan King) writes:
>>In order to get robots in SimEarth, all you need to do is nuke (using
>>the "nuclear test" option.  One robot will then be created.  This
>>robot will then evolve and kill everything else on the planet.
>
>Is this for real?  I've used the "nuclear test" option several times
>(just for laughs :-) and haven't seen any robots created or anything of
>the sort.  And my life forms continued to survive just fine.  Hmm...
OK, so I'm a fool (that's what I get for posting news while talking on
the phone).  What I meant to say was that you need to nuke a nanotech
age city.  That will produce the robots.

Sorry for the confusion.

dank