Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00636
To: Michael Kennan kennanm@efn.org
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:05:36 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: A cry for help
>From: Michael Kennan
>To: beam@corp.sgi.com
>Subject: A cry for help
>Date: Tue, Feb 16, 1999, 7:06 PM
>
> Pardon me, but do any of you know where I might find a mailing list that
> talks about BEAM robotics?
Har har. Oh, they're gonna love this one...
You might as well baste yourself in steak sauce and go into a tiger den,
it'll save them the trouble...
> I thought I had found one, but it turns out this one is really just for
> discussing the relative merits of each writers interpretation of the
> philosophical/religious/ethical/monetary ramifications of their individual
> definitions of BEAM robotics. Oh yeah, it is also a good place to send
> over-size under-informative attachments (or over-size under-informative
> egos), to find out what a resistor is, or to find out just about anything
> if you are too overwhelmed to use a search engine.
Ooh, are you ever in for it (just watch everyone get a complete overhaul and
accept your statement as reasonable. I'm almost always wrong, anyhow)
> When I first started school, years ago, before I became an engineer, I
> studied philosophy, psychology, and religion. Discussions like those that
> have flooded this list for the last couple of weeks are the reason I
> dropped out of school.
Ha ha!
> Is anybody actually *making* robots anymore?
Ya, but we don't talk about it. It upsets the philosophers.
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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