Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:41:33 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <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.

For some, maybe.

mjw

>
>And for those of us interested in astrophysics, planetary time is all
>very much "almost yesterday".
>
>--
>Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
>Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
>"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
>