XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 22/07/2025 12:38, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 22/07/2025 8:08 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2025-07-22 11:57, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>> On 22/07/2025 3:55 am, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-07-21 19:35, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >>>>> On 2025-07-21, Daniel70  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On 20/07/2025 9:34 pm, Paul wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>    
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Your first robot, should have been one with hands,   
   >>>>>>> so it could assemble your other robots for you.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Hmmm! Robots assembling Robots!! Isn't that part of the backstory of   
   >>>>>> Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Terminator" string of films??   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I once read a short story about robots assembling robots.   
   >>>>> Unfortunately   
   >>>>> I can remember neither the author nor the title (although the title   
   >>>>> might   
   >>>>> be something like "How the World Ended").  The basic idea was that the   
   >>>>> robots had an overriding desire to build more robots, and would take   
   >>>>> apart other machinery to get parts.  This brought an end to war, since   
   >>>>> robots would disassemble weapons to get parts to build more robots.   
   >>>>> In the end robots became a sort of natural resource: take half a dozen   
   >>>>> lower halves of robots, lay a plank across them, and you have a wagon.   
   >>>>> It was a clever story; I wish I could find it again.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I remember another history, set in the Asimov Robot City universe,   
   >>>> in which there were robot cells. Put many together, throw a   
   >>>> positronic mind, and a power cell, and it would shape itself into a   
   >>>> robot, of any shape.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> No wikipedia article, funny. The link is red.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_City   
   >>>>   
   >>> Not RED for me. Clicking your link takes we to a page which shows ....   
   >>>   
   >>> Quote   
   >>>  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   
   >>>   
   >>> Robot City may refer to:   
   >>>   
   >>>      Robot City, a fictional city in the 2005 Blue Sky Studios film   
   >>> Robots   
   >>>   *  Isaac Asimov's Robot City, a series of science fiction novels  *   
   >>> written by multiple authors, inspired by Isaac Asimov's Robot series.   
   >>>          Robot City (game), a computer game developed by Brooklyn   
   >>> Multimedia and released in 1995, based on the book series   
   >>   
   >> The link marked with ** above shows in red to me.   
   >>   
   >> Screenshot:    
   >>   
   >  From that page ....   
   >   
   > "Blue Sky Studios", "Robots", "Isaac Asimov's Robot City", "Isaac   
   > Asimov's Robot series", "Robot City (game)", "disambiguation" and   
   > "internal link" all show as Blue Clickable links for me.   
   Not for me.   
      
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