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From: ksbszabo@wateng.UUCP (Kevin S. B. Szabo)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Interstellar spaceflight  - not so fast
Message-ID: <663@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Jan-84 16:01:12 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 15 16:01:12 1984
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Someone asked if anybody else had a better idea of what the purpose
of humanity is. Well, tongue placed firmly in cheek, I will tell
you all my father's stand on this.

After examining the many and varied ways that nature has been
taking care of itself, my father realized that we do indeed have
a purpose on this earth. Like the wood peckers that remove the
bugs from the trees, and the bees that allow reproduction of
the plants, our purpose is to *release the carbon that has
become trapped below the surface of this planet*! Could anything
be more obvious? For millions of years carbon has been removed
from the life cycle of this planet, yet it is a vital component
of every creature on this planet. Thus we have removed the
carbon, burnt it, and made it available to nature again.
( Quite efficiently actually , and at a very quick pace. something like
one century of our industrial existance has removed multi-million
years of entrapped carbon ).  Think of ourselves as well educated
ants..... Kinda' makes you feel insignificant doesn't it?

Maybe this should be in net.jokes? net.religion????

				Kevin.
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	Kevin Szabo  watmath!wateng!ksbszabo (E.E. U of Waterloo)