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From: jlm@uvacs.UUCP (Jerry Marco)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: You can fool all the people...
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 11:16:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 11:16:40 1986
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> [stuff about exponential population growth inevitably slowing down]
> 
> For
> this reason, space may well be the solution to our future population
> problems, not because a significant percentage of humanity will emigrate,
> but because space is gonna make us all stinking rich.
> 
> 					-- Rick.

Yeah.  And nuclear power will be so cheap to produce we won't be billed
for it.  And Esperanto will be the universal language, and put an end
to war.  And smart computers will mean that people don't have to do
any work unless they want to.  And if farmers borrow money to upgrade
their equipment their financial worries will be over.  Gimme a break.
-- 

--
Jerry Marco         University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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