Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 09:33:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> Cc: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>, Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <3D72415D.3F1B220E@mindspring.com> References: <200209011613.g81GDn143323@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>
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Dave Hayes wrote: > > Not really; it just changes the order of purchase for the items > > you put on your shopping list. > > There's a case of rapidly diminishing space on this planet for the > people that are on it. I'd say that existing "societies" are aware of > this fact, and use that as a justifier to make sure that no one > can go find their own island. The price for the Tongan Navy as US$1M; seems to me that if you had bought them first, the problem would not have arisen... > > I presume you know "The Barometer Story"? > > You'd be presuming wrong. Here is the original: http://www.aiglon.ch/archive/meds/ajl.shtm And here is a more literately amusing, though fictionalized, version: http://168.229.236.7/~rkc1/baro.txt -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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