[extropy-chat] Life is good...

[J Corbally]

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>Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 16:07:55 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com>
>Subject: [extropy-chat] Life is good...
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>Well there are simply some days that I'm so impressed that
>I can hardly contain myself.
>On the one hand there are two robotic machines crawling around
>on another planet in the solar system. And they have been
>doing this for four months!
>And on the other hand you have Cassini about to enter orbit
>around Saturn. And it was launched in 1997!
>And last but not least some people in the Congo have discovered
>a mushroom that is a yard (meter) across and 45 centimeters
>(1.5 feet) high [1]. I have no doubt that the sequencing
>of its genome will be added to the current priority list.
>There are days when one really needs to sit back and
>appreciate how extropic humanity may indeed be.

I'd have to agree.  I've just read a snippet in New Scientist about a 
Korean remote control that wouldn't need batteries.  Now _that's_ progress.


James...


>R.
>1. 
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=5&u=/nm/20040527/sc_nm/congo_mushroom_dc