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To leave Commie, hyper to
http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html
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> > Uuuh... Why is it that every time I hear science/technology related news
> > nowadays, I feel like I was living in a bad scifi-book?
> >
> > I want to live in a good scifi-book! One of those with rolling sidewalks,
> > flying cars, thinking seas and galaxy-wide civilizations!
>
> flying cars are here ! rolling sidewalks, well, Heinlein
> had rolling roads but if Heinlein could forecast, we'd be
> fighting giant bugs right now !
>
> a galaxy-wide civilization, well, have you read Iain Banks's
> "Culture" books ? I think most of the action takes place in
> the last couple of thousand years.
>
> so you might be a citizen of FInland or Germany or the USA
> or whatever and they teach you stuff in skule to make you
> an informed citizen. but are you ready for galactic citizen-
> ship ? are you ready for your offworld driver's license ?
> I might suggest
>
> http://www.seds.org/messier/more/mw.html
>
> here are two sample questions from your citizenship quiz:
>
>
> How wide is the Milky Way ?
>
> How many times has the Solar System has orbited the Galactic
> Center since its formation about 4.6 billion years ago ?
>
>
> battlederf galactica
>
