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From: dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Seti
Message-ID: <3889@teklds.TEK.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 88 00:27:04 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque)
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Kevin Bagley writes:
]Tony Nardo writes:
]> Or, on a more grim note, let's say that there's a species which
]       [Highly abbreviated]
]>    1) fairly developed civilization,
]>    2) developed very effective weapons
]>    3) bit overcrowded,
]>    4) believing themselves to be the "roughest, toughest
]	[stuff deleted]
]
]I do **not** believe this garbage, but lets say there is a civilization
]out there with the above type of mentality, (I personally think that
]type of mentality is far more obnoxious than our own and that our
]civilization is teetering on the brink of self destruction.) why
]couldn't this super tough highly teched civilization did exist, they
]may be capable of doing severe damage simply through communcation.
]i.e.
]   1) They could communicate to us a cure for cancer that was
]      actually a very subtle poison...
]   2) Tell us of a new and safe energy source that is actually
]      a quark bomb. 
]   3) Mass hypnotism followed by mass suicide.
]   4) Help me here folks. How else do you cause genocide by remote control?

Why not just send blankets infested with chicken pox germs?  It's worked
before...



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Dan Tilque	--	dant@twaddl.LA.TEK.COM

This article gave me an idea.  If we do run into a "berserker" type machine 
intelligence, couldn't we just feed them some software containing a virus.
Worth trying anyway.