At 09:23 AM 3/18/2012, you wrote:
At least we're in better shape than the civilization in Isaac
Asimov's "Nightfall" during the once every 2,000 years when they
experience night! We only act like that when a sports team wins a
championship, so we just need to move the Library of Congress to
Cl
On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Glenda Collins wrote:
> As with all advanced civilizations. Knowledge will be lost with no written
> record left behind. Thus we start over. I thought we had learned before
At least we're in better shape than the civilization in Isaac Asimov's
"Nightfall" during t
At 08:53 PM 3/17/2012, you wrote:
As with all advanced civilizations. Knowledge will be lost with no
written record left behind. Thus we start over. I thought we had
learned before
Oh, you need paper for fuel on the way down anyhoo.
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On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Dennis Brumm wrote:
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>>I think it's particularly disturbing because if the encyclopedia
I think it's particularly disturbing because if the
encyclopedia doesn't get printed how are we supposed to ameliorate
the fall of the Galactic Empire and see it rebuilt within a thousand years?
The collapse will just not be encyclopediaized, I guess.
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On Mar 14, 2012, at 10:01 PM, James Stanley Barr wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/encyclopedia-britannica-discontinued.ars?clicked=related_right
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> Encyclopedia Brittanica's 2010 edition to be its last printed edition.
I think it's particularly disturbing because i
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/encyclopedia-britannica-discontinued.ars?clicked=related_right
Encyclopedia Brittanica's 2010 edition to be its last printed edition.
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