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- From: spm@dar.csiro.au (McEWAN Shane)
- Subject: Re: HOLOGRAM QUERY
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.045449.22407@aurora.dar.csiro.au>
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- Organization: CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research
- References: <1992Nov16.103604.165134@dstos3.dsto.gov.au>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:54:49 GMT
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- dme@dstos3.dsto.gov.au (Mark Evans) writes:
- : I have a question about Rimmer the hologram. In the epsiode "Holoship" in
- : series five Rimmer decides to join the crew of the Holoship so the Red
- : Dwarf crew decide to bring back a member of the dead crew as a hologram
- : to replace Rimmer.
- :
- : QUESTIONS
- : ---------
- :
- : 1) If all of the dead Red Dwarf crew are still on the ship why don't
- : they bring back more of the crew as holograms ? In Red Dwarf science
- : can only one hologram exist at a time ? Is their only ONE light bead
- : therfore only ONE hologram ?
-
- Due to the computing power needed to generate a hologram, Red Dwarf can only
- support one hologram.
-
- : 2) I realise that the Red Dwarf series has all of the regular characters
- : it needs but it seems a bit mean that all of the dead crew have to
- : remain "dead".
-
- That's life....er....death......whatever. Plus, I think Rimmer had one of the
- skutters hide all of the other hologram discs so that Lister wouldn't turn him
- off and replace him with someone else.
-
- : 3) Why was Rimmer the hologram when it could have been any one of the
- : dead crew ?
-
- Holly brought back Rimmer as a hologram when Lister was revived in order to
- keep Lister sane.
-
- : 4) I know that holograms can't touch anything so bringing back an Engine
- : Mechanic might seem to be useless but he would certainly be able to
- : tell people what to do.
-
- Yeah, but it's not funny! *grin*
-
- : 5) What happens to Rimmer when he has to recharge his light bead ?
-
- Dunno. *smirk*
-
- : 6) A hologram is a dead person in hologram format. Is the only possible step
- : after death to become a hologram i.e hologram status is the equivalent
- : to the so called afterlife ? I take it that once your dead you can come
- : back as a hologram at any time in the future ?
-
- A hologram is a computer simulation of a person. The computer predicts how
- a person will act and "plays out" its predictions with the hologram. So, the
- Rimmer we see in the series is not the _REAL_ Rimmer, but just a computer
- simulation of a probable Rimmer.
-
- --
-
- Shane McEwan CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research spm@dar.csiro.au
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