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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Why Leave Home At All?
Message-ID: <1068@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 09:43:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 09:43:46 1985
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In article <6040@duke.UUCP> crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) writes:

>>	When we can harness energy sufficiently well to accomodate all the
>>people we already have (why talk about racial survival if the ones alive
>>right now are not counted priceless?) and can establish a homeostasis on
>>this ball of dirt so that it is a stable place -- then, and only then would
>>I say we had earned the right to leave.

I would point out that the kind of energy needed for serious
interstellar travel is probably about comparable to that needed to
support the rest of the globe in the US lifestyle-- probably even
more.  I doubt that there is the political will to so apply it though; 
we will almost certainly try space travel first.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe