Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:21:48 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at keithlynch.net>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> In just eight more years, JFK will have been dead longer than he was
> alive.  (Trivia questions: What's the most recent president that is
> already true of?

ronkean at juno.com wrote:
> Coolidge, maybe?

Correct.

Nobody has ventured to answer my second question, which was how much
longer would Reagan (the oldest ever ex-president) have to live so
that he will not have been dead longer than he was alive until some
time in the 22nd century.

The answer is "four more years".  Now where have I heard that phrase
before?

Concerning the Equal Rights Amendment, I'll confess to not noticing
that it was no longer a current issue.  It was only when you guys
reminded me of it that I realized that I haven't heard much about
it lately.  It's considered a dead issue?

Concerning age, history, etc, one needs a proper appreciation for the
awe inspiring depths of geological time.  How can a single century be
considered a long time when there have been so many millions of them?
And when the universe is still so very young, with a future far longer
than its past?

Some people were impressed by my computer history exhibit.  But I have
fossils more than ten million times older than those PDP-11 manuals,
punched cards, and Nixie tubes.  And yet those fossils all came from
the most recent ten percent of our planet's history.
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