669 P.S.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 06:54 PM, Xenophile wrote:

> Use a better launch vehicle (unmanned, $2,500 per pound), with 600
> sheet-per pound, carboard tubeless packets, and the cost becomes:
> 2500.00/600=$4.17(*) per sheet.
>
> Conclusion: switch to bidets as soon as possible.
>

Better have good water recycling. Water weighs about 9 lb. a gallon.

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

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