From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:25:38 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

And most of us will not experience a millenium.

The Phantom Editor
who plays no favorites!

-----Original Message-----
From: lee gilliland [mailto:leeandalexis at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 8:31 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions

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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People tend to be more aware of direct experience - and I doubt any of us
will ever be able to experience a millenia.

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