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From: hdunne@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (|-|ugh)
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Subject: Re: 2010
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Date: 3 Mar 88 22:00:22 GMT
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In article <1988Mar2.125820.352@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> jdd@db.toronto.edu
("John D. DiMarco") writes:

}>More philosophically, isn't any process that increases entropy
}>bound to occur, no matter how great the scale, so long as people
}>can evade the XEPA (Xeno-Environmental Protection Agency) ?

}Not necessarily. Dropping a Nuclear Bomb on New York will increase entropy, but
}it does not necessarily have to happen.

Wouldn't be a bad idea though. :-)

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