[TheForge] Hellooooooo!

[Chris Kilpatrick]

There actually was a y 1 k scare;  then end of humanity, the second coming, pandemonium.  and then it fizzled, just like y2k.  Our lives have been hugely impacted by technology, but society has endured.  In my lifetime I have seen the birth of space travel, cell phones, microwaves, computers for consumers, cable, tiVo, gps, digital electronics, computerized cars, color TV.  the list goes on, but it never ends society.  I have witnessed the end of communism, but the russians are still there.  I have witnessed wars and rumors of wars, but we find a way.
     My life will change, my opportunities will change but I will still live, and love my children and my wife,  what is eternal in my life stays eternal, what is material in my life is subject to rust dust and obsolescence.  That is and has always been true.

-Chris K.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Donahoe" <flyingpigforge at earthlink.net>
> To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: RE: [TheForge] Hellooooooo!
> Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 22:04:22 -0400
> 
> 
> The history of "Chicken Littles" goes way longer than 100 years, it's as old
> as humanity.
> 
> Kevin
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>   [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Darrell
>   Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 1:16 PM
>   To: Sponsored by ABANA
>   Subject: Re: [TheForge] Hellooooooo!
> 
> 
>   The "END" has been near for the last 100 years. Every time it gets really
>   close, someone invents a new "END" stretcher that moves it down the time
>   line.
>   Not that many years ago the "END" involved the depth of horse manure in the
>   streets of New York.
>   Alternative fuels, the way it is being done currently, uses more energy to
>   produce than it is worth.
>   We do have the technology to build small nuclear reactors that are safe (we
>   use them to power submarines and aircraft carriers) that could produce
>   alternative fuels as a byproduct of electricity generation. The
>   problem with
>   the current nuclear power plants is that they are so big and expensive to
>   build that they never pay for themselves before they have to be shut down.
> 
>   Darrell
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: <schade at acegroup.cc>
>   To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>   Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 9:45 AM
>   Subject: Re: [TheForge] Hellooooooo!
> 
> 
>   >
>   > On May 6, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Demon Buddha wrote:
>   >> I've been working on that one for a while.  I have a few more years of
>   >> this insanity, then I drop out.
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   > You might not want to wait that long. I am reading The Long Emergency by
>   > James Kunstler. He thinks that we have already or will very soon pass the
>   > point of peak oil production worldwide. He thinks that the big oil
>   > discoveries have already been made and that extracting liquid
>   oil from oil
>   > sand and shales takes too much energy to be worthwhile. Altho
>   the price of
>   > oil may make such oil economically feasable the end price will be so high
>   > that we won't be able to afford it anyway. This at a time that China and
>   > India are just pulling up to the pump. Things could get hairy real fast
>   > once people start to realize that 'the end is near'.
>   >
>   > You can read an excerpt from the book here...
>   >
>   > http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emergency/
>   >
>   > Bob
>   >
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