On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Zen wrote:

At 10:14 9/21/97, Jeanne Hedge wrote:

When was the Tsukunga Blast in Siberia? (I can never remember if it was
190x, 191x, or 192x)

The Tunguska Explosion was in 1908.

D'oh!  I thought it was 1904...ack.
 

      Andrea nodded.  "US Robots and Mechanical Men got the Robotics
code passed in the 2020s.  Any robot that doesn't have the 'US Standard
Robotic Behavior Code' hardwired into it is illegal.  This prevents the

Anything like Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics (or whatever it was called)

Well, since US Robots and Mechanical Men is a Company from Asimov's Robot
stories, it does seem like a safe bet, ne? ^_^

Heh.
 

John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu       
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rhea@maison-otaku.net      http://www.maison-otaku.net/~rhea/

      It sought to scour him to ash, but he would not burn.  It tried to 
crush him, but he would not be broken.  It tried to blow him away, but he 
would not move.  He locked his mind around it and struck back with his 
anger, binding it with the power within himself.  He had gone beyond 
rage, into the calm at the heart of the hurricane of his anger.  By 
turning his anger outward, he mastered it, and now he did the same for 
the power.

                                   --from 'Power', the first third of my
unfinished story, 'Parallel Lives'.