Ants Thread and other Replies

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> On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 06:10 AM, Ryan Healey wrote:
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>> Brad Walsh Wrote:
>>> sociopaths after all make darned good politicians
>> Too true.
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> Just out of curiosity, how many politicians do you actually know? Or
> have you seen or done a systematic study comparing the number of
> sociopathic politicians with the frequency in the general population?
> Or are you just repeating something you've heard a lot and sounds good?
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The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well, dinosaurs
worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll should
try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to detect and
deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to spread
beyond Earth to insure life would survive a planetary catastrophe.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html