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From: ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi)
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Subject: Re: The base is thirteen
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Date: Sat, 19-Nov-83 15:22:06 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 19 15:22:06 1983
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"But the cavemen died out, which messed up the organic computer,
so the question is wrong" (paraphrased)

Ah, but the great pan-dimensional beings which look like mice
to us have been conducting experiments on human for
a long time, things like forcing them to watch the beings
run through mazes, etc.
Since the organic computer was so complex, it presumably
incorporated such modern techniques as redundancy and self-
checking. The mice have been on earth for a long time,
and would have had ample opportunity to make any corrections
to the earth/computer needed to compensate for
all the telephone sanitizers and hairdressers who showed up 
and killed off the cavemen. After all, they were
fairly close to earth-native (caveman) hiumans,
so it might not be much of a change.

Mike Ciaraldi
Rochester