From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 19:29:26 MST
At 06:34 PM 4/3/02 +1000, dwayne wrote:
>> Frater Damien
>> [with apologies, as so often, to Arthur C. Clarke, in this case for
>> horribly twisting the brilliant idea in his classic tale `The Nine Billion
>> Names of God']
>Actually, this reminds me more of those funky tibetan prayer wheels.
>I've seen wind-powered ones, little petrol-motor driven prayer wheels, etc.
Spot on, squire. Arthur commented just now:
>I must confess - I got the idea of 10e9 from a report (or story -
>Dunsany??) that Tibetan monastries used water power to run prayer-wheels.
(As
>someone said: "Talent borrows - genius steals.")
A hydraulic Singularity, that's the way forward!
Damien Broderick
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