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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 2/28/2026 2:27 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   > Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >> In article <10nr1vu$268jc$4@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:38:03 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> This is a long-running gag here on RAT in reference to a past   
   >>>> regular here, the profoundly stupid Cloud Dreamer, aka Clod Reamer,   
   >>>> (one of your fellow Canadidians) who, in response to people   
   >>>> wondering why the electricity-eating nanobots on the show REVOLUTION   
   >>>> didn't also absorb the electricity that runs the human nervous   
   >>>> system, or the electricity in thunderstorms, declared that they must   
   >>>> only be programmed to consume 'artificial electricity', not 'natural   
   >>>> electricity'.   
   >>>   
   >>> There are endless variations on that trope.   
   >>>   
   >>> Like for example humans encounter some advanced alien civilization   
   >>> (either we visit them, or they come to us), and they have the power to   
   >>> stop all our technology (particularly advanced technology) from   
   >>> working. And yet somehow living beings remain unharmed. And maybe some   
   >>> old relic machine from a museum still functions -- obviously not   
   >>> “technological” enough for the aliens’ weapon to affect   
   it ...   
   >>   
   >> Similarly, how alien computer technology can be hacked like ours.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Only by Macs, not windows.   
   >   
   Well, it only worked because Macs were reverse engineered alien   
   computers....   
      
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   I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky   
   dirty old man.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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