Re: Distribution & Redistribution

jmhall_at_apex.home.net
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: 21 Nov 2004 13:17:43 -0500

"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> writes:

> William C Colley wrote:
>
> > fade away. We'd better be interstellar long before then or we're all
> > just dust and ash again.
>
> It ain't going to happen. There is no practical way to travel near
> light speed, let alone greater than light speed. We are doomed to
> extinction. And even if we could travel at light speed, the universe
> is going to cool of and die anyway. In either case we are doomed. It
> is simply a matter of sooner or later.

A conclusion supported by theories based on increadibly
incomplete data. We really don't even know where most
of the matter is in the universe--we've just come up with
a name for it--nor do we really know it's strucutre or
characteristics.

Seems like a very intelligent and scientific way to
assess the future....

jmh

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