Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Unfolding Universe (discovery channel)

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At this point in time, I will be surprised if humanity outlives Twinkies 
produced yesterday. Not unless folks realize the word, "mine" is a lie. Our 
greed will consume the resources of the Earth far faster than the sun will 
consume its hydrogen.

At 10:25 AM 6/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Did anybody watch "Unfolding Universe" Last night?
>There was some hinting of a dyson sphere, but I thought I'd see what you're
>opinions were.  Will humanity outlive the Sun, the Milky Way/Andromeda
>collision, the "big crunch"?  Also, is the virgo cluster the center of the
>universe, or just a local node of the big crunch?
>
>Some of the things that came to mind while watching were what actions
>favorite sci-fi characters would take during the collision with andromeda.
>Asimov's Foundation characters I think would "island-hop" to safe systems,
>or perhaps even to other galaxies.  I think Heinlein's long-lived characters
>would simply get onboard a bussard ram jet and take a tour of the parts of
>the galaxy more likely to survive.  Niven's characters were already packing
>up and leaving in the last of the Ringworld series, due to an explosion in
>the galactic core that was propagating outward..
>
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>I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's
>deep enough. What do you want; an adorable pancreas?
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