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The final frontier on the Web

Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:33 AM by Alan Boyle

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the term space exploration is misleading here...exploitation is more like it...human, or otherwise...
there is zero sense of expanding humanity's hopes and dreams via exploration of the unknown...
in case ya'll forgot...that's what got us to here...make of that what you will...
worth it?
ya betchyer sweet patootie it's worth it...
done right, that is...
so far...the psycho killers are way ahead of the pure explorers...DRAT!

steve smyth (Sent Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:04 PM)



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