[at-l] Let's Get Stupid

[shane at theplacewithnoname.com (Shane)]

> 	Why the assumption that the options are mutually exclusive? Could
> we not, for example, have a situation in which the planet is
> preserved, and mankind also expands to other worlds? Or one where a
> catastrophe destroys the planet, but the race is still preserved
> among the stars?

Well, you can't preserve the planet forever.  There's that whole solar
expansion thing in the next 5 billion years or so...  I like your latter
version, but it still puts long distance hiking trails in jeopardy.  Or
something...

Maybe I'm not quite sane today after all...

Shane