NationStates Jolt Archive


For anyone familiar with the writings of Cordwainer Smith

Ernst_Rohm
30-04-2005, 04:13
The Underpeople have already been born without us noticing, how long until the days of C"mel and D'joan?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/29/human.animal.mixing.ap/index.html
Bodies Without Organs
30-04-2005, 04:25
As Cordwainer Smith was fond of hdiing secret messages in his novels (such as the initial letters of a sentence in Quest Of Three Worlds spelling out 'Kennedy shot' and then a later sentence similarly rendering 'Oswald Stoo'), I'm sure he would be amused to know that when we feed the name of his hell planet - Sheol - into the popular ROT 13 encryption system used on Usenet, we get the chilling single word 'FURBY'. He may have been trying to warn us...
Ernst_Rohm
30-04-2005, 04:33
As Cordwainer Smith was fond of hdiing secret messages in his novels (such as the initial letters of a sentence in Quest Of Three Worlds spelling out 'Kennedy shot' and then a later sentence similarly rendering 'Oswald Shot'), I'm sure he would be amused to know that when we feed the name of his hell planet - Sheol - into the popular ROT 13 encryption system used on Usenet, we get the chilling single word 'FURBY'. he may hav been trying to warn us...
god i love CS, his work is perhaps in greatest 50s/early 60s science fiction. i consider a familiarity with his work what seperates the true fan from the casual reader. somehow the realization that human animal hybrids are a reality just made all of his future history come flooding into my mind.
Super-power
30-04-2005, 04:40
Gah, sounds like a future dominated by furries - BEAT THEM BACK, I SAY! :mp5:
Chinamanland
30-04-2005, 04:42
Gah, sounds like a future dominated by furries - BEAT THEM BACK, I SAY! :mp5:
ahahahahaha great post
Lacadaemon
30-04-2005, 05:17
As I have said before, this can't end well. At all.
Bodies Without Organs
30-04-2005, 05:24
As I have said before, this can't end well. At all.

In today's technological society with all the resources of science at our fingertips, what could possibly go wroblsjjfjkfkjf,,,,,ukkggjfg;jkoctllllccccc
Chinamanland
30-04-2005, 05:26
lol furries

http://img112.echo.cx/img112/4883/asdfasdf2jn.jpg