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Cockroaches in the museum.
not necessarily our place in the universe...
FrankC —
4/8/2014 9:09:10 AM
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just our place in this moment of time.
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Clarke's Third Law
- ER -
4/7/2014 3:07:20 AM
Spam deleted
- podrock -
4/19/2014 1:17:07 AM
Spam.
- ER -
4/18/2014 6:15:35 PM
I figured that was just one of you Hispanic minions
- FrankC -
4/18/2014 8:22:25 PM
They're selling soccer team jerseys.
- ER -
4/18/2014 9:08:11 PM
You are speaking from an intelligent perspective.
- Jody -
4/9/2014 2:08:59 AM
Every day in every way
- FrankC -
4/9/2014 1:03:52 PM
The worlds of Napoleon and Genghis Khan . . .
- DanS -
4/9/2014 4:19:36 PM
I doubt there is any limit to what we might know...
- FrankC -
4/8/2014 9:01:07 AM
There probably is no limit to what we can know...
- ER -
4/8/2014 12:33:17 PM
OK, you two.
- bowser -
4/8/2014 6:08:19 PM
What good are atoms?
- ER -
4/8/2014 7:18:30 PM
They can be used to kill each other.
- bowser -
4/8/2014 8:38:58 PM
H.G. Wells' "Things to Come" . . .
- DanS -
4/9/2014 12:35:51 PM
Or save each other.
- podrock -
4/9/2014 12:43:20 AM
Effects and side effects.
- bowser -
4/9/2014 4:30:28 PM
There are some things we do not need to know.
- bowser -
4/7/2014 7:14:59 AM
I completely agree.
- Jody -
4/7/2014 4:18:59 PM
"... anything not necessary for survival on Earth is superfluous, and may well get in the way of our using what we do need."
- ER -
4/7/2014 1:26:04 PM
You couldn't agree more.
- bowser -
4/7/2014 9:48:53 PM
"There will always be wars and the rumors of wars."
- Jody -
4/8/2014 1:42:43 AM
The problem is some people mistake personal achievement for personal satisfaction.
- ER -
4/7/2014 10:03:17 PM
A quote from one of my favorite s/f authors
- podrock -
4/7/2014 3:32:54 AM
Cockroaches in the museum.
- ER -
4/7/2014 2:12:17 PM
not necessarily our place in the universe...
- FrankC -
4/8/2014 9:09:10 AM
I like that Frank!!!
- Jody -
4/9/2014 1:44:04 AM
....and that is of our own doing....
- Jody -
4/7/2014 4:17:27 PM
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