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.Precise numerics of shape, thermal output fall-off,calculations of three-dimensional shape, vectors not only of the total blobbut of portions.It then took all this information and compared it to adatabase of notable IR hits, ran all that through a complicated algorithmassigning a valid numeric likelihood of it being positive for a hostile humanor animal then, at the last, applied 'AI logic' to the situation."Looks like another abat to me," he transmitted, having applied 'AI logic.'Or tried to in the face of Buckley Personality 4.127.531.144's utterstupidity."It's moving too fast and it's too large," 6.104.327.068 replied.He wasalmost thirty minutes older than 4.127.531.144 and thought he knew damned wellwhat an abat looked like in IR."Jackal.""No way," 4.127.531.144 argued."A jackal couldn't have taken that slope.It's 62 degrees at a minute of angle of.415 in the tertiary dimension! Abatcan climb like that, jackals can't.I'd say chinchilla, but we're in Africa.""Okay, then it's a Horton's monkey," 6.104.327.068 said."Native to the area.They can climb.Same thermal characteristics.Quadrapedal which this is.Sothere.Put that into your pipe and smoke it, youngster.""They climbtrees ," 4.127.531.144 said 17 nanoseconds later having accessedthe Net and looked up Horton's Monkeys."They're arboreal.They stay off thePage 225 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlground to avoid predators.They're notable for having a distinctive cry thatsounds like icky-icky-pting.tuwop!""And if we hadaudio sensors that's what you'd hear you moron!""Dinosaur.""Wet-behind-the-ears ignoramus.""There's another one," 4.127.531.144 said."It's abat.""It'snot abat," 6.104.327.068 said."Thermal characteristics are too low.Abat are pretty cold blooded for mammaloids.I don't care what you say, it's atribe of Horton's monkeys.""They're arboreal.""Maybe they're moving territory or something." 6.104.327.068 accessedeverything he could find on Horton's Monkeys."But they're arboreal.""That's whatI said.""Then it's jackals.""You're up to twenty hits," 4.127.531.144 replied."Jackals don't move ingroups that large.But Horton's Monkeys do.""They're arboreal.""Maybe their moving territory or something.""That's whatI said!"The argument continued for an interminable twenty-three seconds of increasingNet access until the override system determined that the AIs were approachingcomplete failure, the repeated eletronic transmissions of insults was the cuethat its algorithms was looking for, and deleted both personalities."Hello! What the hell? Where am I? What the fuck is this.?"Ninety three seconds later, the system reset again.Page 226 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlThe UAV was made of clear spider-cloth.One of the Cushitic sentries mighthave spotted it if he was looking just right and it occluded a star.SinceCushitic sentries didn't look at the stars, much, it was a reasonable risksending it overhead.They could not have seen, but could otherwise sense, whatit was releasing.One of the sentries did indeed sense its release.He niffed the night air,shivered slightly, and paid a bit more attention to his surroundings.Herecognized that musk.Posleen.But the sensors would assuredly spot one of them.The toughest part of the plan had been finding the elephants.Elephants had very large territories.And once the survival of the specieshad been assured, monitoring of the herds had dropped to nearly nothing.Itwas far too expensive to keep doing 'just because.'So Mosovich had had to use satellite time to find the nearest herd.Then theyhad to get it moving in the right direction.That had taken time.But in the meantime they had to get the Buckleys properly prepared, anyway."Now you're seeing elephants? What, are they pink?""Yeah, I'm seeing elephants.Look, they're bang on for six sigma match!""You were seeing upland gorillas a second ago.Sixty of them.There aren'tany upland gorillas in a thousand miles! Much less sixty of them.How manyelephants?""Twenty three.They're elephants I tell you!""It's a glitch in the system.Run another diagnostic.With all the falsereadings we've been having, I don't want to wake anyone up for a herd ofimaginary rampaging elephants."Page 227 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"Well, that's better than letting them sleep, don't you think?""Personally, I'd like to continue to live and process even in this horriblefashion.And when the elephants turn out to be a false positive, we're goingto get deleted and you know it.So run another diagnostic.""I already did.It says their elephants.""Are they pink?""You're starting to repeat.I think maybe youdo need to be reset.""Like you're any more stable, granpa!""Brat."Which left the human sentries.Who werenot going to ignore a herd oframpaging elephants.Mosovich wasn't sure who had come up with the system, or why, or how they'dgotten it funded.But Mueller had heard about it years before, researched itand then filed it away in his capacious memory for military trivia.The orbital battle stations that were the third line of defense againstPosleen infestations didn't just have man and Posleen killing lasers.They hadhigh capacity directional tuned EM generators.Orbital battle stunners if youwill.Mosovich figured they were probably designed for crowd control althoughhe couldimagine the reaction if they were everused.However, they were quite selective.And tunable.Which was why the sixCushitic sentries were, a moment after the system crashed again, twitching inthe ground."They're probably going to get trampled, you know," Mueller said, watchingthe readouts."Oh, yee of little faith," Mosovich replied.He watched the real-time data with his arms folded."This is gonna be fun."Page 228 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlClarty wasn't sure for a moment what woke him.Then he noticed the ground wasrumbling.His first thought was earthquake.The area was tectonically highlyactive, the Rift Valley being a crack in the crust where two continentalplates were slowly drifting apart.But it continued much longer than an earthquake.And then he heard the firstangry bugle."Oh, bugger," he muttered, rolling quickly out of the mine manager's bed.Looking out the window he saw several things at once.The one sentry in view was unconscious on the ground, more or less to oneside of the large herd of elephants that had already breached the compound'sperimeter.Then there were the elephants.A lot of elephants.Looking at the control panel for the IR sensor system, which should havenoticed a herd of rampaging elephants forGod's sake, he saw that it was inreset mode.He did not think to himself 'Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence,three times is enemy action.' His brain, when it came to combat, worked muchfaster than that.What he did think was 'Time to leave.'As he burst out the back door of the mine offices his brain finally reached alogic stop and started screaming at him.Exactly how did the sentry get takenout?But by then it was too late [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Precise numerics of shape, thermal output fall-off,calculations of three-dimensional shape, vectors not only of the total blobbut of portions.It then took all this information and compared it to adatabase of notable IR hits, ran all that through a complicated algorithmassigning a valid numeric likelihood of it being positive for a hostile humanor animal then, at the last, applied 'AI logic' to the situation."Looks like another abat to me," he transmitted, having applied 'AI logic.'Or tried to in the face of Buckley Personality 4.127.531.144's utterstupidity."It's moving too fast and it's too large," 6.104.327.068 replied.He wasalmost thirty minutes older than 4.127.531.144 and thought he knew damned wellwhat an abat looked like in IR."Jackal.""No way," 4.127.531.144 argued."A jackal couldn't have taken that slope.It's 62 degrees at a minute of angle of.415 in the tertiary dimension! Abatcan climb like that, jackals can't.I'd say chinchilla, but we're in Africa.""Okay, then it's a Horton's monkey," 6.104.327.068 said."Native to the area.They can climb.Same thermal characteristics.Quadrapedal which this is.Sothere.Put that into your pipe and smoke it, youngster.""They climbtrees ," 4.127.531.144 said 17 nanoseconds later having accessedthe Net and looked up Horton's Monkeys."They're arboreal.They stay off thePage 225 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlground to avoid predators.They're notable for having a distinctive cry thatsounds like icky-icky-pting.tuwop!""And if we hadaudio sensors that's what you'd hear you moron!""Dinosaur.""Wet-behind-the-ears ignoramus.""There's another one," 4.127.531.144 said."It's abat.""It'snot abat," 6.104.327.068 said."Thermal characteristics are too low.Abat are pretty cold blooded for mammaloids.I don't care what you say, it's atribe of Horton's monkeys.""They're arboreal.""Maybe they're moving territory or something." 6.104.327.068 accessedeverything he could find on Horton's Monkeys."But they're arboreal.""That's whatI said.""Then it's jackals.""You're up to twenty hits," 4.127.531.144 replied."Jackals don't move ingroups that large.But Horton's Monkeys do.""They're arboreal.""Maybe their moving territory or something.""That's whatI said!"The argument continued for an interminable twenty-three seconds of increasingNet access until the override system determined that the AIs were approachingcomplete failure, the repeated eletronic transmissions of insults was the cuethat its algorithms was looking for, and deleted both personalities."Hello! What the hell? Where am I? What the fuck is this.?"Ninety three seconds later, the system reset again.Page 226 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlThe UAV was made of clear spider-cloth.One of the Cushitic sentries mighthave spotted it if he was looking just right and it occluded a star.SinceCushitic sentries didn't look at the stars, much, it was a reasonable risksending it overhead.They could not have seen, but could otherwise sense, whatit was releasing.One of the sentries did indeed sense its release.He niffed the night air,shivered slightly, and paid a bit more attention to his surroundings.Herecognized that musk.Posleen.But the sensors would assuredly spot one of them.The toughest part of the plan had been finding the elephants.Elephants had very large territories.And once the survival of the specieshad been assured, monitoring of the herds had dropped to nearly nothing.Itwas far too expensive to keep doing 'just because.'So Mosovich had had to use satellite time to find the nearest herd.Then theyhad to get it moving in the right direction.That had taken time.But in the meantime they had to get the Buckleys properly prepared, anyway."Now you're seeing elephants? What, are they pink?""Yeah, I'm seeing elephants.Look, they're bang on for six sigma match!""You were seeing upland gorillas a second ago.Sixty of them.There aren'tany upland gorillas in a thousand miles! Much less sixty of them.How manyelephants?""Twenty three.They're elephants I tell you!""It's a glitch in the system.Run another diagnostic.With all the falsereadings we've been having, I don't want to wake anyone up for a herd ofimaginary rampaging elephants."Page 227 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"Well, that's better than letting them sleep, don't you think?""Personally, I'd like to continue to live and process even in this horriblefashion.And when the elephants turn out to be a false positive, we're goingto get deleted and you know it.So run another diagnostic.""I already did.It says their elephants.""Are they pink?""You're starting to repeat.I think maybe youdo need to be reset.""Like you're any more stable, granpa!""Brat."Which left the human sentries.Who werenot going to ignore a herd oframpaging elephants.Mosovich wasn't sure who had come up with the system, or why, or how they'dgotten it funded.But Mueller had heard about it years before, researched itand then filed it away in his capacious memory for military trivia.The orbital battle stations that were the third line of defense againstPosleen infestations didn't just have man and Posleen killing lasers.They hadhigh capacity directional tuned EM generators.Orbital battle stunners if youwill.Mosovich figured they were probably designed for crowd control althoughhe couldimagine the reaction if they were everused.However, they were quite selective.And tunable.Which was why the sixCushitic sentries were, a moment after the system crashed again, twitching inthe ground."They're probably going to get trampled, you know," Mueller said, watchingthe readouts."Oh, yee of little faith," Mosovich replied.He watched the real-time data with his arms folded."This is gonna be fun."Page 228 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlClarty wasn't sure for a moment what woke him.Then he noticed the ground wasrumbling.His first thought was earthquake.The area was tectonically highlyactive, the Rift Valley being a crack in the crust where two continentalplates were slowly drifting apart.But it continued much longer than an earthquake.And then he heard the firstangry bugle."Oh, bugger," he muttered, rolling quickly out of the mine manager's bed.Looking out the window he saw several things at once.The one sentry in view was unconscious on the ground, more or less to oneside of the large herd of elephants that had already breached the compound'sperimeter.Then there were the elephants.A lot of elephants.Looking at the control panel for the IR sensor system, which should havenoticed a herd of rampaging elephants forGod's sake, he saw that it was inreset mode.He did not think to himself 'Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence,three times is enemy action.' His brain, when it came to combat, worked muchfaster than that.What he did think was 'Time to leave.'As he burst out the back door of the mine offices his brain finally reached alogic stop and started screaming at him.Exactly how did the sentry get takenout?But by then it was too late [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]