X-Message-Number: 15988 From: Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:07:51 EDT Subject: Re:Who's future will it be? From: James Swayze >> Do you want to bet on 10^18 years? Well, this is not very long if we see it >> against eternity, on the other hand it seems very long as seen against >> cryonics alternative. How could two so different things could even put on the >> same choice list? > >Yvan, you might enjoy the following story by Isaac Azimov. You might have already read it >but if not here's the url: > >http://www.kenobi.com.ar/question.htm > >Enjoy! Thanks, I rarely read scifi. I think author in that domain never invent anything interesting of their own. At best they pick up valuable ideas in the science domain. So I look at scientists when I search for inovative concepts The one about time estimate in the 10^18 years range comes from a paper on the arxiv server astro-ph: A dying Universe. If sci fi writers have no good ideas by themselve, they can neverthless popularize such ideas. Yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15988