Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 13:44:22 01/02/03
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On January 02, 2003 at 16:14:09, Louis Fagliano wrote: >On January 02, 2003 at 15:20:36, Bob Durrett wrote: > >> >>Here is a sobering thought: >> >>In less than the span of a human lifetime [!!!!], humanity has gone from a life >>without any computers to what we have today. Where I live, computers are >>everywhere. >> >>If extraterrestrial aliens were to come here and immediately take all our >>computers, it would be worse than if all the nuclear bombs exploded all at once. >> Like a thousand volcanoes. Governments would collapse and there would be chaos >>in all of the "developed" nations. >> >>And yet, chess programmers take this stuff in stride as if it were always this >>way. >> >>Just an old guy's perspective. : ) >> >>Bob D. > >Guess what. It doesn't take extraterrestrial aliens to come here and >immediately take all our computers. There's something else that can be >administered by evil humans to do exactly that and is technologically very >possible. > >Ever hear of the electromagnetic pulse (EMP)? You just denotate a nuclear >weapon in space, say 1500 miles above the surface of the earth and goodbye to >anything with a silcon chip in it (to say nothing of the power surges in power >lines and substations that will be knocked out of commision). Well, I guess the extraterrestrial aliens would know about that. Maybe that's the way they would do it. > >Ground bursts do horrific damage to buildings and people but the EMP of such a >detonation doesn't get very far due to the curvature of the earth. Detonate it >in space and there will be no damage at all to buildings and people, just their >computers will be gone, permanently inoperable even after the restoration of >electricity. > >It won't take long before the developemnt of Fritz 9 and Chess Tiger 16 will be >the last things on people's minds. > >Ah, but in the midst of the collapse and chaos in all of the developed (and >undeveloped for that matter, too) nations of the world, human GM's will once >again be the strongest chess players in the world! But how would they get to the playing site? Airplanes would all be grounded. Ships too! And trains! Anyway, I guess there's no need to worry about all that. : ) Bob D.
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