It's been a while

Post #255,050 by hnick 5/11/06 10:35:01 AM Reply	It's been a while But I seem to recall that it was an open ended question to generate discussion. At the end, the discovered bright people were kidnapped by a robot working for aliens, who left them on a planet with a chocolate covered manhole which was the only known good food available. I suspect that the story was just a vehicle to allow Niven to go on about Adam and Eve legends, genetics, and ... (memory dims) They can't all be the best he's written. Oh, well...
Post #255,051 by broomberg 5/11/06 10:42:50 AM Reply	But it would kill me No milk pills.
Post #255,055 by hnick 5/11/06 10:54:17 AM Reply	Perhaps Niven considered you expendable. This was about 30 years ago IIRC. Your problems were probably not terribly important to him at the time. Or he didn't think of it at all. Ringworld was unstable too. Feces occurs...
Post #255,063 by inthane-chan 5/11/06 11:45:30 AM Reply	Exactly. Some people are talking at a party about how this one other guy is a walking intelligence test, that he'd be perfect if aliens were somehow trying to figure out who the smartest people in society were. He keeps throwing out these wild ideas to get people talking - but every once in a while, there's a bum idea, such as chocolate coated manhole covers. They leave the party, then find themseleves alone on an alien planet with a chocolate coated manhole cover. Discussion ensues about horse breeding as applied to humans. When somebody asks you to trade your freedoms for security, it isn't your* security they're talking about.*
Post #255,076 by folkert 5/11/06 12:43:04 PM Reply	You are becoming Drook. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.

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