On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Roman Black wrote: > More seriously, you say "the Earth will only be > habitable for the next billion years", really do you > think we WON'T have interstellar transport within > a billion years from now?? Or a much better way of dealing with the "problem" in, say, a few hundred years? At the rate we're expanding our knowledge, anything we do now would look pretty stupid in 2501 or 3001, either of which is a negligible difference in terms of a billion-year time scale. Dale -- A train stops at a train station. A bus stops at a bus station. On my desk I have a workstation... -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads