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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 15:00:09 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

   #writever Stimulus

   "When the killer robots arrive", the schoolmistress told the children, "with the right stimulus, they will stop."
   The robots arrived. The schoolmistress addressed them.
   "Give me the exact value of pi."
   After which she proceeded to let the children out quietly.

   #MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStory / #SmallStories / #FlashFiction #english

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 20:38:12 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     @jwcph I'm not overly familiar with Star Trek, which wasn't broadcast in France when I was youg(er) -- is there a specific episode were this is used?

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     JW prince of CPH (jwcph@norrebro.space)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 20:38:13 JST JW prince of CPH

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     @aaribaud also known as Kirk-ing. ?

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 02:15:27 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     @jwcph
     Thanks a lot for the refs!

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     JW prince of CPH (jwcph@norrebro.space)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 02:15:28 JST JW prince of CPH

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     @aaribaud OK, technically Spock asks the computer to calculate Pi ? Anyway, here's TVTropes' list of TOS Logic Bombs ?

     https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LogicBomb

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     JW prince of CPH (jwcph@norrebro.space)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 02:15:30 JST JW prince of CPH

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     @aaribaud There are several episodes where Kirk logic-bombs a computer do death - but in one specific one he actually defeats an incorporeal alien, which has possessed the main computer, by asking the computer to calculate Pi to the last digit, thus locking it up ?

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_in_the_Fold