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To: maceng2 who wrote (83161)	3/11/2002 4:55:13 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 117017

Maybe your ancestors knew nothing or less, but my ancestors knew how to make other ancestors. They wrote this down somewhere, and we are at present searching through the attic for the document. It may have something to do with time travel. If my ancestors did invent time travel it is probable that they travelled forward to a time that was more palatable than the medieval or prehistoric times they were stuck in. (Forward travel is possible but not backward, as an act in times past could create a time anomaly and a singularity in the fabric of existence. This would cause premature elimination of some lines of existence and perhaps account for the times when people simply don't show up for work one day and no one can recall when they last saw them. On the other hand if someone from time past arrives in the future, he simply occupies a new space in the space fabric of that time dimension and does not cause a paradox anomaly. New existence does not have to have a thread into the past, whereas present does depend on past events having occurred.) See you next year. EC<:-}

To: maceng2 who wrote (83161)	3/11/2002 8:23:26 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 117017

I don't know about Zardoz being an Xvian. In Zvia gold is plentiful, porous, is used to absorb cat urine and is worth about 5 plogs a ten pound bag. By the ton, you can get it at substantial discounts. This may account for his egregiously disparaging attitude about the metal and its prospects of appreciating in value. On the other hand, clay materials or rock are extremely rare on Zvia, and an ounce the stuff it goes for five hundred Zvian plogs. Ask him how much he would pay for a Meerschaum pipe or a pet rock. (The plog is rated at 2.4 minutes work in Zvia. Everyone on Zvia is guaranteed a 52,000 plog salary per year.) Since that is all the money created on Zvia, and borrowing is outlawed, the value of the plog is rumoured to have never changed. What is hard to figure out on Zvia, is where the money goes that people spend. It never seems to accumulate anywhere. There are rumours that the government collects it all in taxes, and simply cancels the account, or spends it on foreign debt repayment. But there are no countries. There is also the theory that Zvia is next to a financial black hole, and is throwing cash into it, in order not to be sucked into a void of monetary extinguishment. (See Planet Enron, the End of Limitations on Expansion) In the millenia since everything has been built and everything stabilized in energy usage and distribution, it is becoming increasingly difficult to define useful work on this planet. Everything is made out of infinite life materials so there is very little maintenance. Energy is all extra planetary radiation that has an infinite life span. It is easy to see why the Z person scorns gold on our world. If all resources on my planet were infinite and required no work at all, then things of value would cease to amuse me. I have heard that mosquitos have no use for gold. Can you confirm this? EC<:-}