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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (37867)	7/27/1999 9:55:00 PM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 116764

ok Zeev your assumption that using the shuttle to bring the metals down as being not cost effective is correct. Maybe in 5-10-20 years a low cost up and down transport system will be developed. My dropping of the stuff into a free fall was 99% goofing, but if the issues of controling the path of the object could be resolved, then the real problem of collecting the stuff could be a show stopper. I think each year MIT has that engineering coarse option for making a machine to destroy other machines, rather than more of the book stuff. I still remember the look on that guys face when it was clear from the start that his team's design was superior to the others, except for that one overlooked fault in design reflected in that saying that the chain is as strong as the weakest link. I think another college or university has a contest of dropping an uncooked egg from a high place with the egg inside or attached to a container to absorbe the impact so than the egg does not break. For the egg drop I think the path has to be straight down to the concrete sidewalk so that airplane type trips are excluded. Those heat shields are by nature lightweight, so maybe the gold could be put inside a glider type one, and a reward given to anyone who retrieves it. (on topic) Will C-Span on tv broadcast the wednesday Greenspan talk to Congress ? If so, time = ? Zeev, any comments on the following ? By Martin A. Armstrong Princeton Economic Institute © Copyright July 26nd, 1999 This week, our computer models begin with a Panic Cycle in global capital flows... Russia is on the brink of another default... The economy of China is also silently imploding... Japan remains the real issue of concern. The BOJ intervention has clearly failed. Japan NEEDS a lower yen in order to stimulate its economy and prevent unemployment from rising sharply... .... A decline in the dollar will push China over its own wall and a devaluation will become MANDATORY to remain competitive in commodities. A collapse in the dollar will also destabilize Asia as a whole. Doug

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (37867)	8/15/1999 5:21:00 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeev Congratulations being # 4 SI PeopleMarked for June 99 Please comment on the future predictions. the 21st century, BEYOND 2001, By Arthur C. Clarke ------------------------------------------------- 2002 The first commercial device producing clean, safe power by low-temperature nuclear reactions goes on the market, heralding the end of the Fossil-Fuel Age. Economic and geopolitical earthquakes follow ------------------------------------------------- 2010 The first Quantum Generators (tapping space energy) are developed. Available in portable and household units from a few kilowatts upward, they can produce electricity indefinitely. Central power stations close down; the age of pylons ends as grid systems are dismantled. ------------------------------------------------- 2015 An inevitable byproduct of the Quantum Generator is complete control of matter at the atomic level. Thus the old dream of alchemy is realized on a commercial scale, often with surprising results. Within a few years, since they are more useful, lead and copper cost twice as much as gold. ------------------------------------------------- 2016 All existing currencies are abolished. The megawatt-hour becomes the unit of exchange. ------------------------------------------------- 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) reaches the human level. From now onward there are two intelligent species on Planet Earth, one evolving far more rapidly than biology would ever permit. Interstellar probes carrying AIs are launched toward the nearer stars. ------------------------------------------------- 2040 The "Universal Replicator," based on nano-technology, is perfected: any object, however complex, can be created - given the necessary raw material and the appropriate information matrix. Diamonds or gourmet meals can, literally, be made from dirt. As a result, agriculture and industry are phased out... ------------------------------------------------- 2090 Large-scale burning of fossil fuels is resumed to replace the carbon dioxide "mined" from the air and postpone the next Ice Age by promoting global warming. ------------------------------------------------- My only comment is that the consciousness of the AI being will prove to be false as later it will be realized that the brain of a human or other living species is only a receiver of an existence that happens elsewhere. We all do indeed live on this planet Earth thru each's physical body, but our thoughts originate not in our space and time, its just our awareness that exist inside our head. For example, the Universal Replicator mentioned above was sucessfully able to duplicate a person, including all present energy content at the time of duplication, and the result was that it had no awareness of the person it was copied from, and also it lacked total ability to reconize or learn as would a new born baby. Proved that life is created not by man, but from something higher. Man and woman can create a person, but a higher gives it life. Man cannot create life outside the birth process of a baby. Man and woman creates a baby, and the baby receives life not from the creation of cells, but from the creation of man joining woman. ------------------------------------------------- Clarke is a futurist and science fiction writer. Copyright Arthur C. Clarke 1999 pathfinder.com