Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Problem solving: elevator story

[Gary.Stewart (Gary.Stewart]

i sometimes think the complicated future solution sometimes obfuscates the
simple today solution

and do the words 'lighten up' resonate with anyone

Gary

what does obfuscate mean anyway?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Landman" <howard [at] polyamory.org>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Problem solving: elevator story


> > I know a VERY cost-effective solution:
> > Stay firmly planted on mother-earth.
>
> That'll only work for a couple billion more years.  Then we'll
> need to find a new home because the sun will be dying.  Might
> as well start looking now.
>
>      (By "we" I mean the entire terrestrial biosphere, not just humans.
>      Homo sapiens just happens to be the organ through which the
>      earth is looking, and reaching, outwards.  Redwood trees aren't
>      going to make it to another star system without help.)
>
> Besides, the Earth experiences an "Extinction Level Event" like the
> impact that wiped out the dinosaurs much more often than that - maybe
> once every 50 to 100 million years.  The safest thing would be to
> have more than one habitable planet before the next one.
>
> In the shorter term: You'd rather run cables all over the planet than
> have a few communications satellites at a tiny fraction of the cost?
> What a waste of copper and glass ...
>
> Howard A. Landman
>
> P.S. I wonder if cohousing principles would be useful on a
>      multi-generation space voyage?  Would make an interesting
>      premise or sub-plot for a sci-fi novel ...
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