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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Space Burial
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 15:29:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 15:29:43 1985
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	John Eaton writes:

>    The scary part is look at what history tells us about civilizations that
> start spending significate portions of their GNP on burials and gravestones.
> They all seem to collapse shortly after.

	Is this really true?  The only civilization I can
remember that was notorious for spending a lot on graves was
ancient Egypt.  And they stayed around for thousands of years;
they were conquered by Alexander the Great, later by Rome,
later by Islam - all very aggressive persons or organizations
who conquered a whole lot besides.  I don't see that they died
of the weight of their supposed pre-occupation with graves.

Regards,
Chris

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