<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><div>On Saturday, May 25, 2013 5:54 PM Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net> wrote:</div><div>> Eugen Leitl wrote:</div><div>>>> or wherever will likely mean that space enterprises and space settlers</div><div>>></div><div>>> There won't be any space settlers. All the settling and processing</div><div>>> will be done by solid state.</div><div>></div><div>> I find that statement profoundly offensive. It implies that some</div><div>> agency will exterminate all other forms of life and modes of</div><div>> existence. If you don't see what I'm getting at, swap out "solid</div><div>> state" with "the Aryan race".</div><div><br></div><div>I don't find it offensive, though it's merely speculative. It might happen that way, but no one here has a working crystal ball.</div></span></div><div
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Regards,<br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Dan<br> See my SF short story "Residue" at:<br>http://www.amazon.com/Residue-ebook/dp/B00BS3T0RM/ -- US<br><br> </div></div></body></html>