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azazel · 04-27-2003, 01:43 AM

Read Arthur C. Clarke's "Songs from distant earth". I'm not exactly sure we'd be off the solar system without that hiatus. Even in the last 500 years, there have been stagnant periods. Once you've gotten the basic gestalt of something (say, atomics) the rate of development starts slowing down (it's been about fifty years with no major changes in the way nuclear energy powers stuff. still just boiling water). it's all chance whether a new field or a ground-breaking theory is thought up, not time.

mike_decock · 04-28-2003, 07:23 AM

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Originally posted by lpetrich
Seems like an attribution of too much rationality -- I think that there might be some psychological quirk behind hostility to perceived indiscriminate sex.

It may be something like the way we like love affairs for ourselves, but not for our partners.

Part of the "social disapproval" I was suggesting would be due to psychological and social reasons, not just rational observations of disease, etc.

-Mike...

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04-27-2003, 01:43 AM	#31
azazel Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: In darkest Manila Posts: 966	Read Arthur C. Clarke's "Songs from distant earth". I'm not exactly sure we'd be off the solar system without that hiatus. Even in the last 500 years, there have been stagnant periods. Once you've gotten the basic gestalt of something (say, atomics) the rate of development starts slowing down (it's been about fifty years with no major changes in the way nuclear energy powers stuff. still just boiling water). it's all chance whether a new field or a ground-breaking theory is thought up, not time.

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