[plug] OT: cockroaches, Windows T-1000

[Kim Covil]

> Bret Busby wrote:
> > Remember the computer in War Games? Consider what could have happened,
> > if that was running with Windows... The cockroaches would be ruling the
> > world ( the only life form, known to man, that would survive a nuclear
> > war).
> 
> No... cockroaches _do_ need to eat. There must be other lifeforms (many
> of them, all working ecologies are very complex and strongly
> cross-connected), and it would eventually go hard with the cockroaches
> if many of those lifeforms weren't at least on par with the roaches.

I really think they ought to start adding roach-bait to the mix of these
nuclear weapons/reactors... that way at least if we blow the planet up
the roaches go down with us... *grin*

Kim

(JOKING FOR THOSE WHO TAKE THINGS A LITTLE TOO SERIOUSLY)
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