Re: Re: starship-design: Hi, from a newbie

[Toxicroach <toxicroach@swbell.net>]

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From: Toxicroach <toxicroacho@swbell.net>
To: starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu <starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu>
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: Re: starship-design: Hi, from a newbie


Oh wow.  Eco-freak on the list.

A)  Even according to the worst predictions of global warming (coming from
Greenpeace &co., who, btw, have a vested interest in creating a popular
perception that there is a serious ecological crisis.  Never trust people
with vested insterests, IMHO), it is nowhere near apocalyptic levels of
destruction, as you seem to think.  Rio might get wet (and even that is very
debatable), but we aren't talking about needing another Ark.  Quite a bit of
evidence is confusing, to say the least.  Antartica, source of the melted
ice that will doom us all, for exmaple, is actually getting colder.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40974-2002Jan13.html

B) What is the "proper" use of resources, in your opinion?

C) Did any of you receive my last email?  (longwinded, perhaps boring, about
colonization on Mars)  I sent it from a different program, no response from
anyone, and I didn't receive it from the listserver.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Curtis Manges <clmanges@yahoo.com>
>To: starship-design <starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu>
>Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:46 AM
>Subject: Fwd: Re: starship-design: Hi, from a newbie
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>>--- KellySt@aol.com wrote:
>>> From: KellySt@aol.com
>>
>>> Fitnite resources equivlent to about to 200,000,000,000 cubic miles
>>> of stuff.
>>
>>Please to derive this figure for me . . .
>>
>>
>>>  Every estimate is that with the resources we know of, we couldn't
>>> run out
>>> resources in any conceavable range of history.  Assuming we never
>>> upgrade our
>>> tech, or really ever do recycling much more then now.
>>
>>Have you been paying attention? In the last two hundred years, we've
>>already succeeded in altering the composition of our atmosphere to
>>the point that, if we don't change our ways soon, we will definitely
>>run out of history before we run out of resources.
>>>
>>> Our economic system is especially effective at utilizing all
>>> resources most
>>> efficently.
>>
>>Utilizing? I'd say misusing is a more appropriate term.
>>>
>>Curtis
>>
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