wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (05/26/88)
While bored in the check-out line at the local Giant Egale
supermarket, I decided to thumb through the "News". Besides an
article about a virus that makes people explode, it featured an
article about a russian computer that talks with the dead. The
photo on page 31 is most clearly an Amiga 1000.
" Special code enable mache to reach beyone the grave
Super comptuer talks with the dead!
Dying subjects were trained to send back signals after they passed
on to afterlife
By Beatice Dexter
A unique computer has helped scientists achieve an
astounding breakthough in life-after-death research -- by picking
up signals from a man who died and recording his messages from
beyond the grave!
Researchers at the University of Tashkent in the Soviet
Union has sucessfully intercepted more than a dozen messages from
the man whom they call 'Comrade K,' according to an article in the
publication _The_Paranormal_Studies_. ...
... Suslov says that to date much of the communication with
the dead man has concerned the computer code and problems with sending
signals to the machine in the university research lab. Comrade K
told scientists that he was unable to signal them for several weeks
becuase of a faulty research design.
The dead man said he changed his method of transmitting
signals -- which inovlved a process resembling mental telepathy --
and broke through the barier at last. ..."
I'd like to see their source code. I was going to give it a try.
I did find signal.h, but where is telepathy.h? :-) Could cut down
a lot on usenet transmission costs. At least they got on fact
right: eventhough the Amiga is not mentioned by name in the
article, it is unique.
--Bill