Re: Meaning of the word "existence"

From: Glenn Knickerbocker (NotR_at_bestweb.net)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:17:43 -0400

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:23:31 GMT, George Hammond wrote:
>For instance, for the sake of argument, suppose that an airborne epidemc got
>out of control and it was determined that within 5 years every living thing
>on Earth would certainly be dead. Then suppose Los Alamos was commissioned
>by an environmental group to rig an H-bomb so that it would "failsafe"
>go off in 10 years and be guaranteed to kill the virus and keep it from
>spreading
>to outer space. The question is.... if all people were dead... would the
>bomb
>go off? I say NO, it would NEVER "go off".
>You on the other hand say YES, certainly it would go off.

Ah, but what if the bomb's going off caused some spores to be carried to
another planet, where they began an evolutionary process that eventually
led to another sentient species? THEN would the bomb go off or not?

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