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[Liam Proven]

On 18 October 2010 04:01, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
>> > will the machines care enough to bother analyzing such petroglyphs?
>> > Will the machines share the information with the humans?  Or, by that
>> > time, will the machines have realized the importance of exterminating the
>> > biological infestation that came over on the Gogafrincham B Ark?
>
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, ben wrote:
>> I think i'll just clean my phone once a year ...
>>   everybody else most likely will buy a clean NEW phone every year ...
>> PS.. I thought they only built one ark.
>
> Once they had built and launched the B ark (the FIRST one), they settled
> in and libed gappily ever after, until they were all wiped out by a
> virulent phone plague.
> (or was it a giant mutant space goat?)

"Oh, I've heard of worse," said Ford, "I read of one planet off in the
seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic
bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole. Killed ten
billion people."
"That's mad," said Mella.
"Yes, only scored thirty points too."

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