Blakes 71978

Olag Gan:
[entering carrying Orac] Here we are. He wasn't very happy at being interrupted.

Roj Blake:
I'll apologize later. Orac, your information on the Weapons Development Base is unsatisfactory.

Orac:
Define "unsatisfactory".

Roj Blake:
I was about to. Your strategic computations start from the premise that the base is on maximum security alert.

Orac:
Computer communications traffic indicates that it is.

Jenna Stannis:
Not permanently?

Orac:
It is not a practice drill.

Cally:
So what is it?

Orac:
Clearly, some occurrence which is a real or apparent threat.

Jenna Stannis:
Thank you, Orac. I'm sure we'd have never worked that out for ourselves.

Orac:
It is therefore the case that security in the immediate future will be sensitive and alert.

Roj Blake:
A fact to be included in strategic computations. Moral:

Kerr Avon:
Never argue with a computer.

Roj Blake:
Right.