Asri-unix.1134 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!cca!sri-unix!REM@MIT-MC Fri Apr 2 01:06:41 1982 Peace Games From: Robert Elton Maas Re effect on national governments, you may have something there, perhaps if more of us played peace instead of war games, the Generals would play peace instead of war with each other. Maybe we should make a fantasy space-exploration game, where everybody pretends to have various expertise, and we all cooperate to pretend to develop space industry, and we are only allowed to use powers within our area of expertise, but we are allowed to freely "invent" plausable solutions to technical problems in our area of expertise and then pretend they are real and follow thru on what comes next (like I might pretend I've discovered ice on the moon, in a polar valley, and then I'd proceed to ask the pretend-engineers to design me a way of extracting it and sending the hydrogen to where it's needed in the equatorial colony). ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.