-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:43:14PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
Nathan Saper wrote:
Fine. My basis for my claim is that the NSA is the best funded and best equiped electronic intelligence agency in the world, and they have employed some of the smartest people in the world.
And the NASA is the best funded and best equiped rocket-launching agency in the world, and they also have employed some of the smartest people in the world, but they can't make a spaceship that will go faster than light. Ot that could get humans to Saturn and back anytime in the next 20 years.
Smart people and large funding don't repeal the laws of nature.
Unless I'm mistaken, there is no essential physical law that determines computing power, exploits of algorithms, etc. The same cannot be said for speed-of-light travel.
Ken
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