jlm@uvacs.UUCP (Jerry Marco) (03/17/86)
> [stuff about exponential population growth inevitably slowing down] > > For > this reason, space may well be the solution to our future population > problems, not because a significant percentage of humanity will emigrate, > but because space is gonna make us all stinking rich. > > -- Rick. Yeah. And nuclear power will be so cheap to produce we won't be billed for it. And Esperanto will be the universal language, and put an end to war. And smart computers will mean that people don't have to do any work unless they want to. And if farmers borrow money to upgrade their equipment their financial worries will be over. Gimme a break. -- -- Jerry Marco University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science UUCP: ..cbosgd!uvacs!jlm or ..decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!jlm CSNET: jlm@virginia
dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski) (03/27/86)
In article <265@uvacs.UUCP> jlm@uvacs.UUCP (Jerry Marco) writes: >> but because space is gonna make us all stinking rich. >Yeah. And nuclear power will be so cheap to produce we won't be billed >... >their equipment their financial worries will be over. Gimme a break. But, really, middle-class folks in this country ALREADY have powers well beyond those granted to kings and emperors of yesteryear! Could YOU fly to Hawaii tomorrow and fly back the next day, if you happened to want to do that? I could. Dick -- Dick Karpinski Manager of Unix Services, UCSF Computer Center UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!dick (415) 476-4529 (12-7) BITNET: dick@ucsfcca Compuserve: 70215,1277 Telemail: RKarpinski USPS: U-76 UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143