Re: Distribution & Redistribution

From: Ron (ronis_at_home.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:23:03 -0500

In article <30dafmF2vfi7qU2@uni-berlin.de>,
 "robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote:

> Ron wrote:
>
> >
> > I don't need it to be accomplished in my lifetime. I think there are
> > people who are defeatist and then those who use their intelligence to
> > find solutions to problems and challenges. Which are you?
>
> Do you believe in perpetual motion, too? Is it defeatist to accept that
> energy is conserved and entropy increases? Is it gloomy to believe that
> there is no such thing as a free lunch?

Here's a free lunch.

There are also means to accomplish travel without any propulsion system
at all. Getting a styrofoam object, an ice cube, or fluid from A to B
can be accomplished by placing the object on a stream of water traveling
in the desired direction. No propulsion or energy source other than what
nature provides is required. One can fight nature tooth and nail, or
what can work with what nature provides. We accomplish directed motion
of signals through optical cables. Each signal of information does not
require a separate energy source.

Earlier cultures might have envisioned walking on the moon. We know that
is possible as it happened. We also know that it must be accomplished
differently than they might have speculated in that environmental suits
are necessary.

That we envision time travel through space ships may need to be altered.
With an unwillingness to investigate other ideas, then yes, it does seem
like a doom and gloom scenario.

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