Ferrari Mailing List: Re: OIL

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

Monte Python Power said it well --

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Heh heh
DOUG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Rentiers" <rentiers [at] me.com>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] OIL


> On Aug 9, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Rick Lindsay wrote:
>
> > + The only viable solution is nuclear.
> >
> > rick
>
> You're right there, Rick. The way I see it, humanity is a happy  
> accident in a vast and hostile universe. We have the ability to choose  
> our destiny. We can sit around waiting for the lights to go out, or we  
> can reach for the stars.
>
> Oh I know how much energy it takes to go anywhere close to lightspeed,  
> and how far away the stars are; but the nearest is only four light  
> years. At only 20% of lightspeed that's twenty years to the nearest  
> star as measured here on earth, much less for the crew. Enormous  
> amounts of energy, but think - if the process of atomic fusion  
> releases as much as it does, what vast amounts of energy may be  
> released when we learn how to split sub-atomic particles?
>
> Impractical. Difficult. Outrageous.
>
> In 30 years of listening SETI hasn't heard a damn thing. Everyone  
> talks about where. What about when? How many other intelligent life  
> forms flourished among the billions of planets, only to be overcome by  
> time and a changing environment? The moon is leaving, the sun is  
> burning out. Long before then some gigantic rock will blow us all to  
> smithereens. We need to get the hell out of the nest.
>
> Or stay here, eat seaweed and walk to work.
>
> I pick "A".
>
> ken
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