Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix3.panix.com!not-for-mail From: "Keith F. Lynch" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Things I never thought would appear Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:56:46 -0000 (UTC) Organization: United Individualist Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:56:46 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix3.panix.com:166.84.1.3"; logging-data="20059"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1470 Lines: 17 Evelyn C. Leeper wrote: > Keith F. Lynch wrote: >> Nobody has come up with a task that a person could do but that no >> computer could ever do. > Make a baby? I'm not convinced that computers couldn't do that. To reach other solar systems may require trips of tens of thousands of years. Robot space probes could be programmed to grow human colonists if and when they get to a habitable planet. And even if computers couldn't do that, my point is that it's not something someone is typically willing to pay someone to do. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.