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Subject: Re: number of deaths
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 19:46:56 EST
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In article <8601080922.AA17872@s1-b.arpa> you write:
>stopped human's before. The bottom line will be that whoever risks the high
>stakes game first will dominate the solar system as thoroughly as Britain
>did in the age of exploration. And the future 'superpower' need not even be
>the US or the USSR. It could just as easily be Japan or Europe or India:
>whoever takes the big risks will take it all. And that is as it should be.
>The meek will inherit the earth, because the rest of us will have left for
>the stars.

Just a historical note: Britain did not dominate the earth in the age of
exploration, Portugal and Spain did that. Britain dominated in what I
would call the age of colonization, though that may also be incorrect.
			Ed Biagioni
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