Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #13118
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: John A. deVries II zozzles@lanl.gov
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:51:35 -0400
Subject: crab, crab, crab
> At 10:38 AM 4/7/00 , Ian wrote:
> > > So, is this still the "official" name for this kind of bot?
> >Maybe one of the first, water based, BEAM bots actually was a aqua"vore".
> >But since then, "aquavore" has basically taken the name for any BEAM
devise
> >that is made to work in the water.
>
>
> I still assert that "aquavore" is a stupid name (I don't, however, assert
> that Ian is the least bit stupid.) I mean, what does it run on? Hydrogen
> fusion or something? It is sad that the list had actually stopped using
> that word and now Ian (who is definitely one of the small gods) brings it
> up once again in an authoritative manner. I guess we don't care that
other
> people won't understand us.
>
> aquaphotovore if actually light powered, submarine if not.
>
> However, this is all fairly unimportant and I apologize for taking up your
> bandwidth.
>
>
> Crabby Zozzles
>
>
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