--OBd5C1Lgu00Gd/Tn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:10:02PM +0900, Phlip wrote: > > And besides, who are we kidding thinking that the planet needs us? > > It's been around for a long time before we were here and can do > > without us fine**x, where x is a Bignum. > > Who will move it to a safe orbit as the Sun goes off the Main Sequence? Post-humans, of course. I, for one, welcome our new us-as-masters in a post-singularity world. > > Mother Nature works in mysterious ways. Including sometimes via Epic Fail. . . . or, in this case, by giving rise to a race (humans) who have the potential to accelerate its own evolution via technological singularity (I hope). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] My first programming koan: If a lambda has the ability to access its context, but there isn't any context to access -- is it still a closure? --OBd5C1Lgu00Gd/Tn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAknq3cIACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKV64QCdFRzfgqoGIFsQffOJxuFLsRjN 9FkAn3L100rziUgm+dz+7EQdg8FqGVbo 7s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OBd5C1Lgu00Gd/Tn--