Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 00:35:49 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

> 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.

Time is not all the same.  An hour with your lover is not the same as an
hour with your dentist.

And for those of us interested in astrophysics, planetary time is all
very much "almost yesterday".

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."