In a message dated 09/08/1999 5:11:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sentience@pobox.com writes:
> Well, there you go. That's our deadline. The long debate as to whether
> or not we should develop AI is finally settled; if we don't
> *immediately* start a crash project to develop AI within the next
> billion years, we'll all die of thirst.
Not necessary ;-) Loooooove those halites! And with an expanded sun-solar energy will be had by the bucket-full to cook H²O out of the halites. Perhaps we'll need a few sandworms to liven the place up? Shai Elud...Shai Elud...