RE: Latest Nations/States/Organizations document

This is only if they evolve at a  markedly accelerated rate (compared to
us).  We've had life on Earth for approx 3 billion years and we still
can't do it.

David Best

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>From:	Thomas Barclay[SMTP:Thomas.Barclay@sofkin.ca]
>Sent:	Thursday, April 23, 1998 11:14 AM
>To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>Subject:	Re: Latest Nations/States/Organizations document
>
>Mark spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
>
>>	Give the sun a couple of billion of years.  As the sun goes to
red
>> giant phase, the life-zone should move outward.  If things work out
>> well, Jupiter's moons could be capable of sustaining life for a
couple
>> of hundred million years if not longer.  More than enough time for
life
>> to start, evolve to sapience and move out amongst the stars when
things
>> get too hot (or too cold when the sun starts to contract).
>
>Or long enough for us to move to one of these moons and kill off 
>whatever is living there... (*grin*) (or perhaps not a grin after 
>all...)
>
>> Later,
>> Mark A. Siefert
>> 
>>	"I know I'll make it, love can last forever
>>	Graceful swans of never topple to the earth
>>	And you can make it last, forever you
>>	You can make it last, forever you"
>> 
>>				     --Smashing Pumpkins
>>				     "Thirty-Three"
>> 
>> cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu		   
http://www.uwm.edu/~cthulhu/index.html
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