Ain't Tech Grand

At 01:42 PM 4/24/97 -0500, Mark A. Siefert wrote:
>Hello All...
>	Anti-Gravity... Free Electron Lasers... The possiblity of 
>life on other planets/moons...  All we need know is a working
hyperdrive 
>and we're in business.
>	Seriously,  I haven't heard of any of these events (except 
>the stuff about Callisto) on the news.  Goes to show that the media 
>doesn't share our interests.  It great time to be a sci-fi fan!  

	There is still a lot of work going on with the Unified Field
Theory.
There may be a force not completely explained yet that brings them
together.
Dan Alderson (Formerly of NASA's JPL, May he RIP) designed the Alderson
Drive based on this idea.  We may find a FTL (in this case
instantaneous)
drive system yet...
	Besides there is plenty to do here in our own back yard.  What
we
really need is lots of Energy.	Anyone know how the Tocamak is doing
these days?
	The other issue is expense.  It takes the same amount of Energy
to
fly a 10 pound package from LAX to Sidney Australia as it does to place
that
same package in orbit.	But the costs are radically different.
	It is good that all of us nerds are the only ones that can
survive
in this changing world.  Now I'll point my sandcaster at that bully from
the
beach...
	Phil P.