[crackmonkey] Fwd: Exodus to cold-land.

[George Moffitt]

On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 11:46:56AM -0500, The Mitochondrion wrote:
> 
> bekut at world.std.com sed:
> > (b) terraforming Pluto
> 
> WELL, I THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA.  AFTER ALL, NO ONE CAN REALLY BOTHER
> YOU THERE, SINCE YOU'RE ALONE.  BUT THEN ON THE OTHER HAND, MAYBE
> THERE WOULD BE PEOPLE WITH YOU, OTHER TERRAFORMERS, BECAUSE NASA, THEY
> MIGHT REQUIRE THAT THERE BE MORE THAN JUST ONE PERSON, BECAUSE THEY
> MIGHT THINK, HEY, IF THERE'S ONLY ONE PERSON, THEN THAT ONE PERSON
> MIGHT GET BORED AND STOP TERRAFORMING, OR STOP FOR SOME OTHER REASON,
> AND THEN THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY TERRAFORMING GOING ON.  AND ALSO WHAT
> IF THERE WERE NO OTHER PEOPLE BESIDES YOU, THEN WHY BOTHER, SINCE NASA
> WOULDN'T CARE ABOUT JUST YOU, THEY WOULD WANT TO DO IT FOR LOTS OF
> PEOPLE, FOR THEIR OWN REASONS, BUT WHO KNOWS WHAT THOSE REASONS ARE,
> BUT, ANYWAY, WE CAN BE PRETTY SURE THAT IT HAS TO DO WITH HAVING MORE
> THAN ONE PERSON THERE, DOESN'T THAT MAKE SENSE?  I CAN'T SAY I CAN GET
> INTO THE MIND OF NASA, HELL, I'M NOT EVEN SURE IF NASA DOES HAVE A
> MIND, MAYBE NASA IS JUST A FREE-FLOATING FRUSTRATION, CALIBRATED TO
> CREATE IN US A COPY OF ITSELF, AND THATS WHY IT WOULD SEND US TO
> PLUTO, THAT'S THE REASON, AND MAYBE IT WOULD, SURELY IT WOULD, DO THIS
> TO LOTS OF PEOPLE, LOTS OF PEOPLE ON THE PLUTO; BUT THEN MAYBE WHAT
> THEY ARE GOING TO DO IS TO HAVE A DIFFERENT PLUTO FOR EACH PERSON,
> KIND OF AN EXPERIMENT, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THEY CAN WRITE ABOUT IN THE
> JOURNALS THAT THEY HAVE BACK THERE IN THE BACK ROOM AT NASA, AND EACH
> ONE OF US CAN GO AND DO OUR THING, AND WHEN WE ARE DOING, THEY CAN
> COMPARE THE NEW WORLDS AND SEE WHATS WHAT.  MAYBE PICK THE BEST ONE,
> AND THE KING AND FIRST-LADY CAN GO LIVE ON THAT ONE, THAT BEST ONE.
> WOULDN'T IT BE COOL IF THEY PICKED YOURS, AND YOU GOT TO LIVE IN THE
> NEW CASTLE FOR THE PRESIDENT AND QUEEN, AND YOU COULD HELP OUT IN THE
> KITCHEN AND LOOK OUT THE WINDOWS AND KNOW THAT IT'S ALL THERE BECAUSE
> YOU HAD TASTE, YOU HAD REALLY GOOD TASTE?

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