Re: Right Stuff for the Red Planet

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 21:34:53 MST


Doug Jones wrote:

> Yes, Mars would tend to lose its atmosphere, but the time constant is on
> the order of thirty million years. ...
> Megayear vistas don't make much sense with the Singularity bearing down
> upon us...

Contraire Doug, this gives us all the more motive to get it done, soon!
Lets not give up on the notion of at least some of us outrunning this thing.
I will admit, this week's announcement by those two local companies
[AMD and Intel] of a 1.1 GHz and 1.5 GHz chip respectively
fill one simultaneously with hope and fear. spike



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