Rather than arguing that point, I'll point out that our technological knowledge and expertise seems to be growing just fine. On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, James R. Cunningham wrote: > Our judgement and intelligence seem to be little changed in the last 1-2000 > years. Why should we assume folks down the line will be much different? > > JimC > > Dale Botkin wrote: > > > 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. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads