Time-scales

--- In spacesettlers, "victoriatangoman" wrote:

> --- In spacesettlers, "Xenophile" wrote:

>> Oh. My. God. This old type of thing again. Hey, anybody here
>> read the Lagrangia books by Mack Reynolds and Dean Ing? It is
>> something like this.
>>
>> So the Orioners go off with 130+ IQ's, and congratulate themselves
>> that they don't have to putup with all the dumb 125's back on
>> Earth.
>> They go on with their plan to raise the average IQ through
>> selective breeding... and then one of the 122's in one of
>> the "dumb" habitats figures out how to put a quantum computing
>> chip and a brain together, and suddenly the Earth and Space are
>> crawling with 357's!
>>
>>
>> Xenophile (smart, but not as smart as I might someday become)

> What I get from your comments above is a feeling of distaste about
> the self-righteousness and smugness of this proposal and I share it
> to.

You are a Perceptive Man, Tango Man.

Actually, you wrote well in you post, and I want to address what you
said. But for right now, I will simply repete: "Hey, anybody here
read the Lagrangia books by Mack Reynolds and Dean Ing?"

Xenophile ("Hey, anybody here read the Lagrangia books by Mack
Reynolds and Dean Ing?")