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From: Matthew Russotto on 19 May 2010 21:45 In article <ht20p1$i4p$2(a)speranza.aioe.org>, DMcCunney <plugh(a)xyzzy.com> wrote: >* despen(a)verizon.net: > >> To terraform Mars we'd need to increase it's mass so it could hold an >> atmosphere we can breath. > >Or modify ourselves to be something that could live there as is. > >It's actually a fairly common theme in SF: do you change the planet to >suit you, or change yourself to suit the planet? "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress is made by the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw And yet, it's conservatives who are against changing oneself, and liberals who are against changing the planet. <ducks and runs> -- The problem with socialism is there's always someone with less ability and more need.
From: Keith F. Lynch on 19 May 2010 22:57 Seebs <usenet-nospam(a)seebs.net> wrote: > Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: >> Probably not, but civilization has effectively put a stop to any >> process of natural selection. > I have seen nothing to suggest that this is the case, and quite a > bit of evidence suggesting that, if anything, we've created a wildly > different set of selection pressures, which is increasing the rate > of change substantially. We're selecting for people who are immune to birth control pills. :-) -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
From: Blanche on 20 May 2010 00:08 Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > >> >> Did you know that Mark Twain wrote science fiction? I don't have the >> >> book unpacked so I can't give you the title. >> >> > A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. >> >> I wouldn't classify that as Science Fiction. > >I guess that The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove isn't science >fiction either, by your standards. How about Heinlein's By His Bootstraps >or Jerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself? Gerrold. As in David Gerrold.
From: Blanche on 20 May 2010 00:12 Ian Gregory <ianji33(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >On 2010-05-05, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > >> Every time I try to eat one of those long yellow fruit >> I get a floating-point exception. >> >> ba + (na)^2 > >A kid was apparently heard to say "I know how to spell banana, I just >don't know when to stop". ba(na)*
From: Blanche on 20 May 2010 00:43
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > >> >>>> That's pretty good, considering that he will probably die before >> >>>> Cochrane will be born. Time travel, anyone? >> >>> >> >>> Maybe he is friends with the Doctor. >> >> >> >> Doctor Who? >> > >> > Of course. >> >> No, he's on first. > >Who's on first? What's on second? |