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>Keith Knapp wrote to Mark Bloss about Alive?
 
 MB> KK> we can never know the _exact_ nature of the FM event, but in science
 MB> KK> you have to accept the fact that statistical and probabilistic
 MB> KK> knowledge is sometimes all you can know.
 
 MB> That's only a statistical and probablistic theoretical assessment of
 MB> what we can know scientifically about the possible existence of the
 MB> First Message, probably, at least, as far as I know, I think.
 KK> Wow!  I wish _I_ could write a sentence like that!
 
 After eons of messages - sentences like that have evolved out of the 
 primordial alphabet soup.  They are probably accidents of the particular
 physics in our area of the universe; and are more than likely impossible
 to conjur elsewhere.  On the other hand, other scientists disagree, saying,
 on the other hand there are other fingers - therefore on other planets 
 there has to be other alphabet soups of a similar nature, therefore
 on the other planet other sentences similar to the one above must also have
 formed out of its prigrammarcial slime.  But I don't agree, because on
 the other hand - those aren't other fingers, those are opposite fingers,
 which are totally opposed to being compared to the fingers, on the other
 hand.
 
 MB> KK> There are some cranks who claim that the FM could have been just
 MB> KK> something like "Hey Arnie, did you get this?"  Even creationists
 MB> KK> reject this because surely, they say, the FM must have had more
 MB> KK> meaning.  But science rejects it because those who profess it
 MB> KK> do not use big Latin words to name things.
 
 MB> I just want to know who Arnie is, and whether or not he got it.
 KK> Arnie is clearly one of the Creators.  And given that in the earliest
 KK> stages of the FM event the quantum variable Baud was set at 150, it is
 KK> likely that Arnie has not and will never get the FM.  Think of how
 KK> many books we can get out of the Tragedy of a Creator whose Creation
 KK> prevents him from ever getting the FM.
 Clearly he is; but I think you are over-estimating the initial quantum 
 variable Baud.  But with buffering active it may have moved along faster -
 but they didn't use buffering then, being restricted to other prifidodial
 restrictions, like the 8250.  It was a big step to the 16440, or whatever
 it was, and now we have the 16550AFN's, so we are better than they are.
 
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