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A sobering thought from xkcd - Logan Darklighter - 05-07-2011
http://xkcd.com/893/
Especially pay attention to the rollover quote.
- robkelk - 05-07-2011
I added the rollover quote to the Fenspace Wiki the day the strip was posted. It seemed appropriate...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Black Aeronaut - 05-07-2011
*Sighs* This is just plain sad.
- Bob Schroeck - 05-07-2011
I forget who said it, but I think it was an SF author: "I'd always hoped I'd live to see the first man to walk on the moon; I never thought I'd live to see the last." (Probably involuntarily paraphrased.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Black Aeronaut - 05-07-2011
Bob, a bit of digging has returned a find: it's Jerry Pournelle and it's from his website here: http://www.jerrypournelle...iew/2009/Q3/view580.html
You'll need to scroll down a ways to get at it, but the way it really goes is: "From the time I was in high school I knew I would live to see the first man land on the Moon. I did not suspect I would live to see the last one."
- Bob Schroeck - 05-07-2011
Thanks, BA. I probably got that out of his old Infoworld (?) column.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.