Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #03559



To: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
From: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 23:38:04 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Rollerbots (was: Star Wars Ep1...)


At 5:27 AM -0000 5/23/99, Bob Shannon wrote:

:> Furthermore, whether or not pillbugs are robots or not is irrelevant -- by
:> the same argument, one could say that Mark Tilden's finding inspiration in
:> the biological world is equally valueless. I, for one, am not willing to
:> make that argument.
:Why not take advantage of the solutions already found in nature?
:There is a lot to be learned from the design and behavior of insects
:that can be directly applied to small robots. All those millions of
:years of evolution, of no value?
:Can you explain why not?

Let me rearrange my sentences so that perhaps they'll be understood better,
because it is obvious that people are misreading them:

I am -NOT- willing to make the argument that "Mark Tilden's finding
inspiration in the biological world is valueless".

Or, to get rid of the double negative (well, sort of a double negative) and
changing a word or two:

I am willing to make the argument that Mark Tilden's finding inspiration in
the biological world has value.



Does this make it any clearer?






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