<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 October 2011 16:17, Ben Zaiboc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bbenzai@yahoo.com">bbenzai@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Yep, the space age is dead. Long live the space age!<br>
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The space age is dead in the sense that the horse-drawn-carriage-age is dead.<br></blockquote></div><br>No, I am more inclined to see it dead in the same sense that speed records for ground, sea, air, space have been stationary for decades, and speed *averages* are even declining, so that horse-drawn carriages may actually be on the way of becoming fashionable again.<br>
<br>So much for the law of exponential returns. :-(<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>