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> I wondered about that. Then I recalled that
>during the fly-by of the system the computer
>kept them awake for *two whole weeks*, so
>obviously it wanted them to do something during
>that time. My guess (from my reading) is that
>the computer was smart enough to pick up
>anomalies that were obviously of intelligent
>origin, so it'd wake up its passengers on the
>offhand chance that they'd run into the aliens
>during the fly-by.

Yeah, that's a possible explanation, but as I pointed out before, what's the point of waking up these useless hunks of meat even on an off chance? It'd be much more efficient to just wait until the LGM are tapping on the window.

And for that matter, why bother with having a window?