Re: Missed It By That Much

In article <1208970926@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Wayne Throop <throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>::: Another Clarke prediction, this time from _The Lost Worlds of 2001_ .
>::: Once section features some-one receiving what can be best described
>::: as an e-mail (text message delivered to a terminal).  For some
>::: reason, however, he describes the message automatically being
>::: printed out on paper as soon as it was received (more like a telex,
>::: I guess) rather than being stored and viewed on a monitor.  This is
>::: particularly jarring since the person receiving the e-mail is on a
>::: space****p in orbit around Mars, where he might find it difficult to
>::: get more paper should he happen to run out. 
>
>****rley he'd eventually run out of electrons.
>Or if the software were written in lisp (increasingly improbable,
>but still), there might be a right parenthesis shortage.
>
>
>   "You're out of ice?  You can't run out of ice!
>    I thought you could use the water in the air!"
>
>   "There *is* no water in this air!
>    What's your excuse, you run out of muscle?"

	Yeah, when I saw that I wondered if the combustion products from
a burning building wouldn't include H20. 
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defending the English language [...]" T-****rt, cup and tote-bag needs)