From: Technotranscendence (neptune@superlink.net)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 06:51:38 MDT
On Saturday, September 06, 2003 5:24 AM Hubert Mania humania@t-online.de
wrote:
> In his last book "Time Travel in Einstein's
> Universe" Princeton astrophysicist J.
> Richard Gott claimed that the achievement
> of Saturn 5 might be comparable to the
> Great Pyramids of the Egyptian Pharaoh's.
> Two masterpieces of engineering, that will
> never be built again. Two windows in time
> that shut down abruptly and never opened
> up again. Gott thinks, the abandonment of
> Saturn 5 is more than a shame. It's an
> enormous mistake and a setback for space
> colonization which he believes is a main
> factor for the survival of our species.
Mark Mortimer expressed a similar view, a few weeks back, with his "Has
Humanity Already Shot Their[sic] (Space) Bolt" article in SpaceDaily.
See:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-03zs.html
This is basically the pessimistic view of things. I think we can both
ramp up oil production and space activity.
On this note, the May-June issue of _The Futurist_ has an article by
Theodore Modis, "The
> Limits of Complexity and Change," that concludes the technoprogress
and complexity increase for humanity peaked around 1990 and is now in
decline.
I guess the dot-com bust has made all the pessimists come out of the
woodwork.
Cheers!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/MyWorksBySubject.html
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