RE: beauty queens and galactic colonization
Jones, Spike (spike.jones@lmco.com)
Sun, 03 May 1998 16:36:37 -0700
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> From: den Otter
> Reply To: extropians@extropy.com
> Sent: Sunday, May 3, 1998 3:45 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: beauty queens...
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> > From: Jones, Spike <spike.jones@lmco.com>
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> > > From: J. R. Molloy
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> > > > Question: If you could live forever,
> > >would you and why?
> > >Answer: I would not live forever,
> > >because we should not live forever,
> > >because if we were supposed to live
> > >forever, then we would live forever, but
> > >we cannot live forever, which is why I
> > >would not live forever."
> > >--Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss universe
> > >contest
> >
> > beauty queens are chosen for thier looks,
> > not their brains... {8-[
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>Somebody should give the lass that book,
>_*The Reasonable Woman: A Guide to Intellectual Survival* _
you are assuming she can read... {8^D
are extropians interested in memes regarding expansion
of humanity throughout the galaxy? i have generated some
interesting findings using data from the hipparcos, the european
satellite that measured the distances to nearby stars with
great accuracy using parallax. if there is interest, i will
post the results of converting the declination, right ascention
tables into rectangular coordinates.
with this information, one can see that the sun is a relatively
lonely star. one can also see that the nearest star will not
necessarily be the first colonized... spike