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Re: averting doom

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From: Stephen F. Schaffner
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 20:50
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In article <Jan.8.15.28.14.1993.12014@ruhets.rutgers.edu>, bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
|> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
|> 
|> >>>	     WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Life on Earth as we know it will
|> >>>     come to an end in 1,500 million years ...
|> 
|> >Do you seriously believe that a species capable of creating
|> >and enjoying The Love Boat is capable also of learning
|> >galactic engineering?
|> 
|> A better question in my opinion is whether a species capable of
|> creating and enjoying The Love Boat *should* be saved from doom.

Or whether the much-deserved doom has already arrived in the form of The 
Love Boat (could the extinction of all life really be that much worse?).


-- 
Steve Schaffner        sschaff@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
	The opinions expressed may be mine, and may not be those of SLAC, 
Stanford University, or the DOE.
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