Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:05:34 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 08:31 PM 04/02/2002 -0500, you 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.
>--
>People tend to be more aware of direct experience - and I doubt any of us
>will ever be able to experience a millenia.

Not unless someone in this crowd is secretly named Woodrow Wilson Smith.

(It was Smith wasn't it?)

Candy