X-Message-Number: 18732 From: Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:19:09 EST Subject: Pave the Earth (Kennita) --part1_39.23965ad5.29bad92d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Comments, please. Am I being shortsighted and poisoning a planet that I'm going to have a use for for a long time? Without industry and technology, the Earth will be hit by an asteroid and go into a final Ice Age fairly "soon" (~millions of years.) If our wealth and technology grows exponentially for 500 years, building a few robots to eat some benzene will be no big deal. Personally, I'm against drinking benzene cola until we have telomerase-promoter adenoviruses approved, and one person's right to exude benzene has to be limited by your right to exist. But by far the biggest risk that we face is political and economic stagnation. (Ask Zheng He...) --part1_39.23965ad5.29bad92d_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18732