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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Moon Farmers |
| Date | 2015-10-21 20:07 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <d8q9kvF7c6eU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (7 earlier) <087a4e1b-9832-49a1-887b-07c9c4358ddc@googlegroups.com> <1635495737.467032585.623015.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <d8mpfsFaacqU1@mid.individual.net> <n05voa0afh@news6.newsguy.com> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1510211421310.17542@darkstar.example.org> |
On 2015-10-21, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On 2015-10-20, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-10-20, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 1:40:52 PM UTC-6, Walter Bushell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We have no machines that will last hundreds much less thousands
>>>>>> of years.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's true that, due to insufficient demand, such machines cannot be ordered
>>>>> from stock at this time. Does that mean current technology is inadequate
>>>>> to the challenge of making such machines? That is by no means certain.
>>
>> That depends on whether you believe Microsoft is the state of the art.
>>
>>>> Voyager did quite well, but that was decade(s?), not millennia. Technology
>>>> has advanced a bit since than, but the only things humans have built to
>>>> last that long have been the pyramids, which are a bit heavy for a space
>>>> launch.
>>>
>>> Unless you're a Goa'uld.
>>>
>>> (Sorry).
>>
>> Or have spindizzies.
>>
> SO which city will you take up first?
Been a *long* time since I read "Cities in Flight" (although it's in my
SF collection in what I rather grandiously refer to as 'the library'.)
But doesn't New York figure? Or at least, Manhattan?
--
Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 2nd day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3181
I don't have an attitude problem.
If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.
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