February 12, 2002

Like this computer? A HP Pavillion desktop set to 1024 by 768, reveals the button bar, but no scroll bars, but if I set screen resolution to 800 by 600 I get neither. Like I said, the BBS software doesn't work, all the way across the board and spectrum.

What's the point of sending more robots to investigate primitive life on other planets, WHICH WE KNOW EXISTS SOMEWHERE, when we can't even handle complex life on this planet? If we ourselves would spent the money and time and effort of exercising our "freedom to roam the heavens on man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe", then that would bode well for our chances of surviving life on this planet. We can measure the color of the microbes from here. They are yellowish red and pink, respectively.

There are no SSMEs to buy. I'm more interested in SLI derived propulsion, RS-83s and/or Cobras, or end of life SSMEs, when the time comes.

Yes I live on that island. The ocean and space is very large. There are plenty of islands left and plenty of room to build many more. But do we have the right stuff? We need to develop the knowledge and the intelligence and the experience. We need to demonstrate that. That's my point.

Thomas Lee Elifritz
lifeform@atlantic.net
http://www.atlantic.net/~elifritz