Re: Scenario behind "Waking up displaced"

Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:
> <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >A small but technically savy lot.
> >They'd have the skill, the means and reasonably the desire to make 
> >contact using the internet, either by putting up a website or
conducting 
> >a white hat spam run.

> A website would be nearly useless. Goggle for "won't wake up" --
> you'll find over a million hits. 

   It depends on how savvy the person is.  If you use the advanced options
in Google you can limit your search to pages that have only updated in the

past 24 hours.

> And what would they say? "I'm awake" is about it. For at least the
> first 16-24 hours, there would be no obvious clue as to why they're
> unaffected. 

   "Is anyone else out there?  Are you from the US, Europe, Asia, where?"

   "If someone's in Chicago, can you check on my mom and feed her cat?"

   "There's a hot chick passed out in this restaurant -- here's some
pics."

   "Now is as good a time as any to tell my life story, in case we all
die."

   Don't underestimate the ability of the human race (especially *this*
generation) to babble on about nothing important.  :)

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