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Subject: Interstellar space travel -- is it possible?
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Date: Sat, 7-Jan-84 15:29:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  7 15:29:00 1984
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From:  Herb Lin <LIN @ MIT-ML>


    From: Robert Elton Maas <REM at MIT-MC>

    You say there's no motivation to create progeny unless we can
    establish two-way comunication with them.

    Yet all around this planet I see creatures leaving progeny around;
    animals lay eggs and abandom them, they later hatch, and the parents
    never even get to hear the offspring say "mama" not to mention any
    interactive communication; people plan for their children's education
    in the event the parents should die, by buying life insurance, even
    though the life insurance will never be paid to a child who can
    converse with the parents, only to an orphaned child; people write
    scientific papers with no insurance anyone at all will read them
    during the scientist's lifetime.

You're right on this point - i retract my statement on two-way
communication. I still stand by my last msg concerning the motivation
for individual behavior (until that's proven specious as well).