[ExI] Meat v. Machine

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:53:30PM -0600, Damien Broderick wrote:

> That's not the problem (there's thousands or millions of others with you  
> in the star sliver), it's the isolation from the Borg back home, where  
> all the good stuff is being done and you're out of touch by subjective  
> millions-fold. Slowing yer clock down would make it worse.

Maybe they just ran out of beer.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2625/did-the-pilgrims-land-on-plymouth-rock-because-they-ran-out-of-beer