From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com

On 9/9/2025 11:44 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <109pifv$12u7s$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

(SNIP of original post and first digression)

On 9/8/2025 7:32 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Polluting the planet for a Ponzi scheme.  Next up, coal powered prayer
wheels.

IIRC, in 'The Nine Billion Names of God', the engineer worries about the
availability of power for the computer they're installing, but is
assured that there's plenty, since they have a generator to run the
prayer wheels. Energy source was unspecified.

Oddly, I once set up a project that iterated through 2^64 items. This is
so much larger than 9 billion that I expect a mapping could have been
created between every name and at least one of the items.

Luckily, the stars still shine...

Was this more than 8 years ago? Because, if it was more recent, perhaps
the event wave that Alpha Centauri has gone out hasn't reached us yet
(note that the event wave that all the names had been named would still
be going through nearby stars.

Oh my, Ben Bova wrote of this. He called it the "Death Wave".
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Wave-Star-Quest-Trilogy/dp/0765379511

Lynn

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