phillips@cisden.UUCP (02/19/86)
In article <2960@ut-ngp.UUCP> cgeiger@ut-ngp.UUCP (Charles S. Geiger, Esq.) writes: >Well, why? While I am very interested in astronomy and all that >sort of thing, I don't understand why anyone would want to >permanently migrate to another planet. There's just so much *here* >to see and learn, certainly enough to last a lifetime! Most >importantly, this is our home. >Frankly, I hope all of you gung-ho types will get the opportunity >to leave and will take advantage of it. That way all the >exploiters, conquerors, or, to be charitable, "adventurous" types >(what's so unadventurous about staying here and learning about your >own planet?) will leave, and I can be at peace here. >charles s. geiger >just a wage slave In reading Gordon Dickson's Childe Cycle novels I always thought his thesis about people not leaving Earth for this kind of reason was stretched and unrealistic. Here's one wage slave that showed me that Dickson was right. Unbelievable. -- Tommy Phillips From the banks of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees. cisden!phillips