Re: Why is Star Trek so robophobic?

"Lawrence Watt-Evans" <lwe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:24:41 -0600, "Ken from Chicago"
> <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>There are people who seek out danger like cityfolk going on safari,
>>Europeans going exploring to the East, Asians going west toward and
beyond
>>the Great Wall, townies going to the frontier, whereever maps say "Here
>>there be dragons" will attract a certain percentage of a given
population.
>
> The Great Wall was China's _northern_ frontier, keeping out the
> Manchus and the Mongols; to the west they were protected by the Gobi
> Desert and didn't need a wall.
>
> The Great Wall starts on the beach at Shanhaiguan, which is on the
> Korea Bay in the east.

Whatever.

-- Ken from Chicago (who's kryptonite is geography)