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To: BenLurkin

Never. Not in our mortal bodies, anyway.


3 posted on 12/26/2013 2:03:13 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

Arthur Clarke observed that humans are over optimstic in the short run (flying cars, etc,) and under optimistic in the long run. No one seeing a Model T when it first came off the line would have imagined living long enough to see people walking on the moon.

We will travel to the stars but I’ll be long gone to dust by then. But we’ll be there.


15 posted on 12/26/2013 2:11:42 PM PST by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: fwdude
Never. Not in our mortal bodies, anyway.

You are correct sir. It is not going to happen in our present bodies. People just do not have an appreciation for the vast distances of space.

34 posted on 12/26/2013 3:06:16 PM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71a)
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