[extropy-chat] Re: towards the Sun?

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> It is amusing that this inverts Vinge's schema in the Zoned Galaxy 
> sequence, and perhaps in Poul Anderson's classic BRAIN WAVE.  It
> might imply that the ferocious fluxes in the center of galaxies is
> where we'll  find the fastest minds.

Vinge's scheme was merely an inversion of the classical
Azimov/Heinlein/Smith assumption that Galactic civilization would be
greatest nearer to the core.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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