Re: Historical comparisons

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:31:23 GMT, Monte Davis
<monte.davis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

royls@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

More like the age of oceanic exploration in the 15th-17th C.

Compared to the scale of the solar system and the advances required to
exploit and colonize it? More like straddling a log and paddling
around a lagoon with your hands.

Not relative to the available economic, scientific, human and
technological resources.

-- Roy L
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