Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site idec.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!grafton From: grafton@idec.UUCP (S. Grafton) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Matter Transmission/identity on file Message-ID: <492@idec.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 06:21:27 EDT Article-I.D.: idec.492 Posted: Tue Sep 24 06:21:27 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 05:39:29 EDT References: <3645@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1180@mtgzz.UUCP> Reply-To: grafton@idec.UUCP (S. Grafton) Organization: STC IDEC, Stevenage, UK Lines: 32 Keywords: Clone Matter Transmission Summary: *** SPOILER *** Xpath: stc stc-a In article <1180@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes: >They can't all be the original. Take my word for it, if you are >destroyed and replaced by an exact copy with your mind, you are dead. >The exact copy is only that. I know. It happens to me every night. > > Mark Leeper This reminds me of another one of those short stories that I can remember reading, 'The Tunnel under the World' by Fred Pohl (if my colleague's memory serves him right). The above comment jogged the old memory. It was about a man who found himself in a very strange situation. Every day people about him were doing exactly the same things that they were doing the day before. It was always the same day, there were always the same progs on the tele (so whats new) and so on. Anyway he and a chum hide away somewhere but are eventually found. He finds out, much to his dismay, that he is in fact a Robot. His whole town was distroyed when a factory exploded and everyone had been killed. An advertising agency had brought the town , 'reincarnated' the people as robots, and tested out different advertising techniques on them. They were reprogrammed every night. Who knows, this may already have happened ...... -- _____________________________________________________________________________ 'Hey ! You sass that Hoopy Ford Prefect, there's a frood who really knows where his towel is.' - HGTTG. - Steve. grafton@idec.UUCP mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!grafton though more reliable is "EH! YOU" (not recomended for North America) _____________________________________________________________________________ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com