CDR: Predicting a succesful society
It get's off it's home planet permanently. The difference in scale of resource potential between a planet bound, versus a (multi-)planetary system bound society are incomparable. Issues of life-span are generaly irrelevant, the two technologies develop hand in hand (there will of course be some synchronisation issues in particular instances) and will offset any fundamental distance issue. In general, such societies will be very rare. ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------
Jim Choate wrote:
It get's off it's home planet permanently. [and more.]
Yes, thank you very much, indeed, absolutely. A suave-tailored and barbered and elocuted gentleman who runs UK's Internet Watch aroused the anti-censorship crowd with the query "should we allow an image of a penis up an infant's anus." "Absolutely not," the crowd vowed. Debate on splitting the profane image from the urbane text ensued. Text should be unfettered but not pix, it was agreed. The uncensorable textual image mouthed by the Internet Watch barker hung in the air to arouse unanimity on what's not permissable in a succesful secret-vice society. Onion kiddie-chat rooms, absolutely.
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