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From: rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson)
Subject: Re: ASIMOV
Reply-To: rolf@sparc1.isgs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:06:01 GMT

minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:

>In article <1992Apr14.030221.20311@cs.yale.edu> allen-benjamin@CS.YALE.EDU (Benjamin Allen) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr13.190258.9443@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> chad@pms704.pms.ford.com (Chad Childers) writes:
>>>
>>>Thank you, Dr. Minsky.  It really helps to hear such a respected scientist
>>>say what we all feel, and say it so well.  Perhaps Dr.A. will never be honored
>>>on a postage stamp like Elvis, but some of us know what's real.
>>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Excellent idea!
>>
>>Ben Allen
>>allen-benjamin@cs.yale.edu

>Hmm.  Who would one write letter to, to get this done?

The U.S. Post Office, of course. However, they have a rule that any
people to appear on stamps have to have been dead for at least 5
years. I am not sure how Mr. Presley, who has been sighted alive
many times recently got around this rule.
--

Rolf Wilson   Illinois State Geological Survey   rolf@sparc1.isgs.uiuc.edu
From: Joel.Rosenberg@f341.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Joel Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Asimov
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:54:09 GMT

In a message to All <13 Apr 92 16:00> Crawford Kilian writes in and says:

 CK> Markku Sorto observes, quite correctly,
 CK> that Asimov's late writing wasn't up to
 CK> his earlier work. That was especially true of his fiction, which became
 CK> tediously formulaic and relied heavily
 CK> on "talking heads" to move the story
 CK> along. ("Nemesis" comes to mind in this
 CK> regard.) In a sense, Asimov was in the
 CK> ironic position of a pioneer victimized
 CK> by the very territory he opened up:
 CK> largely thanks to his work, SF turned from a minor subgenre into a major
 CK> industry whose titles took over even the
 CK> New York Times bestseller lists. 

Eh?  How'd he do dat?  It was Heinlein who first opened up the 
SF audience, and Herbert who had the first SF blockbuster, 
Tolkein who had the ongoing fantasy bestseller, and Judy Lynn 
Del Rey who figured out how to harness the beast.  Asimov's 
commercial importance, such as it is, comes along a LOT later.

 * Origin: The Terraboard, Minneapolis MN (1:282/341.0)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.arts.sf.written
From: gmcmanus@reepicheep.gcn.uoknor.edu (Gary McManus)
Subject: Re: Isaac Asimov
Organization: CIMMS/The University of Oklahoma, Norman
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 03:24:04 GMT

Is he really dead, or is this another of Doug's hilarious jokes?
From: garyh@sdsc.edu (Gary Hanyzewski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Canonical list of Dr. Asimov's Works
Date: 15 Apr 1992 21:15:06 GMT
Organization: San Diego Supercomputer Center @ UCSD
Distribution: world
Reply-To: garyh@sdsc.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: bashful.sdsc.edu
Keywords: Asimov

	The recent, unexpected ( by me ) and sad death of Isaac
	Asimov has brought to the forefront of my thoughts a 
	project I have been contemplating for quite some time.
	As we all know, Dr. Asimov is ( I just can't bring myself 
	to use 'was' yet ) one of the most prolific writers of
	our century, if not of all time.  His works were were
	not only numerous but extremely broad.  I remember hearing
	an anecdote that Isaac Asimov was the only writer to have
	at least 1 book in ALL of the major Dewey decimal categories.

	What I would like to do, partly as a tribute to one of the
	all-time great teachers/writers, and partly out of my own
	perverse desire to have such a thing, is create a canonical listing 
        of all of Dr. Asimovs published works.  This would ideally 
	include novels, novellas, short stories, etc. Interviews and
	editorials are open for debate but keep in mind that without
	including them the number of entries will be in the 500++ range.

	The information to be collected for each work should probably
	include at the very least :

		title:
		publisher(s):
		publication year(s):
		reprint year(s):
		ISBN # :
		?:

	Lets open this up for discussion and when we decide on the 
	format etc, I'm more than willing, read eagar, to act as the
	coordinator and compiler of the list.

---
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         garyh@sdsc.edu      		|      heaven and earth than
                                        |      are dreamt of in your 	
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From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc,dat91uni@ludat.lth.se
Subject: Re: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ...
Keywords: AD&D,Role playing
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:05:13 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

dat91uni@ludat.lth.se (Urban Nilsson) writes:

>I just wonder if there's any one out there who wanna exchange some
>experiences with me, or start a thread here about for example why can't
>TSR print all stuff that they give out in the same book, ex: all spells
>in one compendium ?, what to do with a character that have XL > 20 ? ...

    Do the words rec.games.frp mean anything to you? This is the
place that you post regarding Role Playing in all of its various
incarnations. Of course there is a bad side to everything, and in this
instance it is the fact that there are about 100 messages a day on
rec.games.frp and TSR products make up almost half of that.


--
-Hades  (Brian V. Hughes)   | "When you get right down do it there is only
 hades@Coos.Dartmouth.Edu   |  one thing that matters here...
 Mac Database Developer     |                       I Have Mob Ties!"
 Dartmouth Medical School   |      -Mario Cuomo (played by Phil Hartman)
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From: rose@acf9.nyu.edu (David Rose)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.arts.books
Subject: Moorcock's reference to Harlequin
Summary: Looking for a firmer reference
Keywords: harlequin,moorcock
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:16:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: acf9.rose.702656189
Organization: New York University


  In a couple or so of his stories, Michael Moorcock alludes to an 18th
or 19th century story of Harlequin and Poirot.  I believe he does this
in one of the "Dancers at the End of Time" series as well as "A Brothel
in Rosenstrauss" (which is a period piece, and not fantasy/sci-fi).

  I want to find out if this is an actual story of if Michael Moorcock
made it up.  (I suspect that it is real, but cannot find a reference
elsewhere.)
--
David Rose
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012
rose@math12.cims.nyu.edu
From: burt@techbook.com (Burt Keeble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: Asimov: a righteous dude?
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:53:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Apr10.235328.10866
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix

In article <1992Apr9.234229.13454@uunet.uu.net> kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones) writes:
>mike@maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers) writes:
> > Although i hated his later books (post 1955 or so) he *was* a
> > seminal influence.  So Clarke finally beat him, in the end. Ah
> > well...
>
>In an intro to one of the _New Hugo Winners_ anthologies, Dr. A.
>admitted that he wasn't at all comfortable with the SF scene
>beyond the late fifties.  It sounded like he was saying that
>introduction of what some would call fantasy into the SF field
>didn't suit his tastes, but this coul dbe my own bias showing.
>
> > Anyway, was Asimov an athiest?
>
>Yeah, Isaac was the athiest of them all! :)

    *That's* what amazed me most about Dr. A.  That he could draw the
    line at God.   I should think he would have left *that* an open
    question.   Especially in view of all the evidence we have of the
    mind-boggeling complexity of the universe.

    Just a thought.

    And BTW, Dr. A. has educated me far more than any conventional
    system!

    -burt

-- 

If there isn't any light at the end         ,__c
of your tunnel, try self-delusion;        _-\_<,
It works!    burt@techbook.com...........(*)/'(*)
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From: rjb12@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Browning;f110or89;[05306)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: ASIMOV
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:35:24 GMT
Organization: Brighton Polytechnic, UK

Isaac Asimov's death is a hard thing for me to grasp; it was he (often
accompanied by Arthur Clarke) that held my hand during my first forays
into science fiction. His books continue to enchant me, as they have done
ever since my early school years.

I am annoyed at the media here in Britain: I can't remember seeing anything
on television about Mr. Asimov's death; it seems to have been obliterated
by election coverage, and I think that's very wrong. Isaac Asimov was the
man who gave birth to the robot concept and the Three Laws of Robotics;
he was the man who changed the public's attitude of science fiction from 
contemptuous to admiring.

Something should be done to honour him.

In sadness,

Richard.

-- 
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Rich Browning (rjb12@bton.unix)   *  The Three Laws of Robotics 
Department of Computer Science    *   ... a design for humankind.      
Brighton Polytechnic              *       
****************************************************************************
		Isaac Asimov: May you rest in peace.
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From: mike@maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: Coolest SF Character  (was Re: Even more things vs.things)
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:33:59 GMT
Organization: Sometimes found in a quite disorganized state in Trinity College
              Dublin. Freedom==Anarchy. My opinions are, like my total lack of
              organization, entirely my own fault.

In article <Apr.6.23.23.28.1992.25844@remus.rutgers.edu> krebs@remus.rutgers.edu (Michael Krebs) writes:

>Finally, who's the coolest S.F. character. Not most powerfull or strongest or
>anything like that , just the Coolest Person In Sci-Fi.

Jerry Cornelius.
-- 
Mike Rogers,Box 6,Regent Hse,##EveryoneHasTheRightToFreedomOfOpinionAndExpressio
TCD,EIRE. <mike@maths.tcd.ie>##nThisRightIncludesFreedomToHoldOpinionsWithoutInt
###############################erferenceAndToSeekReceiveAndImpartInformationAndI
deasThroughAnyMediaAndRegardlessOfFrontiers...#10 UN Declaration of Human Rights
From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: "SF" versus <spit> "SciFi"
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:46:14 GMT
Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au

In <1992Apr15.205044.17924@wam.umd.edu> urgent@wam.umd.edu (Gent-Secret A) writes:
>In article <1992Apr15.191741.8158@sbcs.sunysb.edu> shane@sbgrad7.cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough) writes:
>>In article <cswj=#r.xtifr@netcom.com> xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) writes:
>>
>>>What really gets up *my* nose is pretentious wankers who feel...
>>
>>But what *REALLY* yanks my dingdong are pretentious wankers who feel ...

>And of course what really wanks various other parts of my anatomy are...

>(The original poster did include a PS in the post: it included
> the net.symbol for "tongue-in-cheek," namely ":-^" (I think). I
> detect that many here arn't respondin' in a similar light and
> need this pointed out.)

What REALLY snaps the bridge of my nose with a pair of pliers are these
d!cknoses that don't know the difference between "tongue-in-cheek," = ":-^"
and "if you disagree with me, you're a d!cknose" : "8^}", as DID appear
in the original post!


:*^
(for the smily impaired: tongue-in-cheek-even-though-bridge-of-nose-snapped)
Warwick
--
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From: ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: Oldest Living Old Masters/FAQ (was Re: Asimov - The Passing of a True Great)
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:45:50 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Apr12.233435.25006@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
> master is Frank Belknap Long at 89 in two weeks (God willing); Manly Wade
> Wellman is either a month or two years and a month younger (depending on
> whether you follow Tuck's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SF AND FANTASY or Nicholls' SF
> ENCYCLOPEDIA) ; De Camp (mentioned by another poster) is third at 84.
> Williamson is third at a young 83 (again, in a couple of weeks, GW).  The
                ^^^^^
Oops!  Make that "fourth."

Evelyn C. Leeper  |  +1 908 957 2070  |  att!mtgzy!ecl or  ecl@mtgzy.att.com
--
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
					 -- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
From: DAVIS@licr.dn.mu.OZ.AU
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: "SF" versus <spit> "SciFi"
Date: 13 Apr 92 02:49:00 GMT

Time for some Serious Discussion.  During the reorg there was a lot of 
discussion about whether we should have *.sf.* or not, and whether "sf" 
covered both science fiction and fantasy.  I believe the eventual consensus 
was that "sf" could stand for "speculative fiction", and bring everything 
under its umbrella.  This is fine with me.  What really gets up my nose 
though is the abbreviation of Science Fiction to "SciFi".  When *I* was a 
youngster I was brought up correctly!  Surely the One True Abbreviation is 
"SF"!  Yet even in some of the tributes to Asimov we read the heretical 
"SciFi".  This has got to stop!  Surely the Net wields sufficient power to 
really make a difference here.  Come on people!  Stand up for what is 
right!  Stamp out the infidels who declare themselves by the use of this 
abominable abbreviation.


Ian Davis                               DAVIS@licr.dn.mu.oz.au








PS:  8^}
PPS: Sorry if this is reposted but I don't think it got through the first 
time.
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From: izo30@ccc.amdahl.com (Ian O'Brien)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc,alt.fan.goons
Subject: Re: A rather peculiar letter.
Date: 11 Apr 92 21:08:14 GMT
Reply-To: izo30@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Ian O'Brien)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Apr11.155143.23577@sbcs.sunysb.edu> lischmid@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (Dave Weingart) writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.223308.5691@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mikeh@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (michael p.herlihy) writes:
>>What is the consensus on the net for a national abortion law?
>[etc. etc. etc.]
>
>Does this _really_ belong on rec.arts.sf.misc?
>
>How about looking at it from a speculative fiction way, if you feel it
>must be here at all?  Say...what would the country be like if abortion
>was totally outlawed?  What kind of underground society would spring
>up to make sure it could happen, and what sort of Morality Police
>would be around to make sure it didn't?
>
>(Now there's a story idea for someone...)

Personally I think Spike Milligan should write a sequel to puckoon
about the irish and their current quagmire about abortion and the
entrenched attitudes in this country at present.

Ian
-- 
**
** Ian O'Brien    UN?X Systems Thingummy at Amdahl Ireland Limited **
**
** izo30@ail.amdahl.com or izo30@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (see - no apostrophes)
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Xref: sparky rec.arts.sf.misc:1288 rec.arts.books:7611
From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Moorcock's reference to Harlequin
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:08:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: morrow.1992Apr7.150816.14233
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project

David Rose writes:

	In a couple or so of his stories, Michael Moorcock alludes 
	to an 18th or 19th century story of Harlequin and Poirot.  

I think you mean Hastings and Pierrot.

						Francis Muir

francis@sep.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
From: tthomas@isis.cs.du.edu (Kerr Avon)
Subject: Re: Coolest SF Character  (was Re: Even more things vs.things)
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	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Keywords: coolest, sf, character, Blake's 7, Avon, Picard, Cat
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 17:37:15 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.060850.9385@access.digex.com>
 chevron@access.digex.com (chevron) writes:
>In article <Apr.6.23.23.28.1992.25844@remus.rutgers.edu>
> krebs@remus.rutgers.edu (Michael Krebs) writes:
>
>>Finally, who's the coolest S.F. character. Not most powerfull or strongest or
>>anything like that , just the Coolest Person In Sci-Fi.
>>
>Well, I like Zaphod, Han and Hudson too.  Ford Prefect isn't bad either,
>as long as you mentioned Zaphod and HHGTTG.
>BUT . . .
>As far as I am concerned, THE coolest SF character award goes hands
>down (or hands up, if _he's_ holding the blaster) to none other
>than (IMHO, of course) that king of British SF cool himself, Kerr Avon.
>Avon didn't stop at cool, he could be ice itself.  The man had style,
>the man had elegance, the man knew how to dress to kill.  _And_ he
>was good with computers (and _everyone_ knows _that's_ cool, especially
>the net nuts   :-)  ).
>Anyone else out there want to cast a vote for "Coolest SF Character"?
>

     Whilst I cerainly would not wish to dispute your vote, I would like
to add another Hoopy Frood to the list.  Jean Luc Picard, now he's one
all-togetherly all-together kind of guy.

     And how about "Cat" from Red Dwarf?  He will do nothing if he can't
do it in style.  Shoot, he even 'does nothing' in style.


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>|    chevron@access.digex.com            the best of times."  -- K. Avon    |


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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.arts.sf-lovers
From: allen-benjamin@CS.YALE.EDU (Benjamin Allen)
Subject: Re: ASIMOV
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 03:02:21 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.190258.9443@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> chad@pms704.pms.ford.com (Chad Childers) writes:
>
>Thank you, Dr. Minsky.  It really helps to hear such a respected scientist
>say what we all feel, and say it so well.  Perhaps Dr.A. will never be honored
>on a postage stamp like Elvis, but some of us know what's real.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Excellent idea!

Ben Allen
allen-benjamin@cs.yale.edu


Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
From: kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Subject: Re: Asimov: a righteous dude?
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:42:29 GMT

mike@maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers) writes:
 > Although i hated his later books (post 1955 or so) he *was* a
 > seminal influence.  So Clarke finally beat him, in the end. Ah
 > well...

In an intro to one of the _New Hugo Winners_ anthologies, Dr. A.
admitted that he wasn't at all comfortable with the SF scene
beyond the late fifties.  It sounded like he was saying that
introduction of what some would call fantasy into the SF field
didn't suit his tastes, but this coul dbe my own bias showing.

 > Anyway, was Asimov an athiest?

Yeah, Isaac was the athiest of them all! :)

Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
From: shane@sbgrad7.cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough)
Subject: Re: "SF" versus <spit> "SciFi"
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:17:41 GMT

In article <cswj=#r.xtifr@netcom.com> xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) writes:

>What really gets up *my* nose is pretentious wankers who feel they have
>to compensate for their own insecurity by setting up straw dogs like
>this.  Boy, it sure makes you feel high and mighty to know that you're
>superior to those "infidels" who say "skiffy", huh?

followed by

>convention when I was three.  I've dined at the house of Phil Farmer,
>Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Poul Anderson, crashed at the house of
>Randall Garrett, Phil Dick, and at Greyhaven.  John Brunner has crashed
>at parent's house when he was in the States.  My aunt has six or seven
>[etc]

But what *REALLY* yanks my dingdong are pretentious wankers who feel
dropping names somehow legitimizes their opinions. So John Brunner
slept at your parents house? WOW! You must *really* know the right
abbreviation for science fiction!

>Chris Waters    | the insane don't |   I figure the odds be fifty-fifty:
>xtifr@netcom.COM| need disclaimers | I just might have something to say. --FZ


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From: dant@logos.wr.tek.com (Dan Tilque)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: Denial of Humanity
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:48:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Upper Left Coast Liberation Army

ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew C. Plotkin) writes:
>Mike Van Pelt@hsv3.uucp (1893):
>
>> (Of course, much of our current
>> society's sexual behavior neither provides for the propagation of the
>> species nor for the care of the young.  As Robert Heinlein pointed out,
>> this is self-correcting in the long run.)
>
>Really? Both recreational sex and erotic literature (to name two
>examples) have been around for millenia, and neither show any signs of
>going away. (Despite the best efforts of a vocal minority.)

Recreational sex and erotic literature are both behaviors which
indirectly provide for the propagation of the species (interestingly,
Heinlein also pointed this out about recsex; he also made the same
point about erotic literature somewhat indirectly in _To Sail Beyond
the Sunset_).

Thus, the best suppresive efforts of the vocal minority is behavior
which is indirectly against the propagation of the species.

---
Dan Tilque	--	dant@logos.WR.TEK.COM
From: emeu08@castle.ed.ac.uk (ME3 Student)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Mistake at beginning of T2
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:17:11 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

>In article <1992Apr6.023536.12315@reed.edu> bcushman@lust.reed.edu (Ben Cushman) writes:
>>
>>Hi folks--
>>
>>	I have a quick question.  Was the T1000 organic?  If not, how  
>>could he be temporally diplaced.  I understood that the reason why no  
>>weapons or clothes could be brought back from the future was that no  
>>non-living stuff can be displaced (unless it was wrapped in living  
>>tissue).  However, the T1000 seemed to be made entirely of liquid metal  
>>(that is, no living tissue).  Is there an explanation for this apparent  
>>discrepancy?
>>

It wasnt liquid metal, it was some material called a 'poly-alloy' or something
like that, which could have any number of properties as the writers so desired.

Anyway I always thought that it was a different type of time machine that 
was used in the second film.

In the first film Rees says that the plan was to destroy the machine after
he went through, so that nobody else could come through. I assumed that this
plan was followed through.

In the second film I thought that the machine used must have been different 
when I first saw it. It seemed to displace a whole spherical area rather than
just a single body. It seems that this new machine was probably more advanced
and didn't have the same restrictions.

This still left me with one question though. If the above was the case, why
didn't either of the terminators come through with weapons?

Still, thats how I saw it but it was an excellent film anyway.

	Donald