Standard Wolfean riddle

António Marques · 12 Aug 2010, 22:59 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:59:37 +0100
Subject: (urth) Standard Wolfean  riddle
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James Wynn wrote:
> On 8/12/2010 1:03 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
>> - Wolfe presents Urth as a possible, bleak future for Earth. I don't
>> want Earth's future to be Urth; I think the presentation is a warning
>> - see what may happen - and that warning is given in the form of what
>> happened to some who started off pretty much like us.
>
> eh...It could be worse. Urth's future for humanity is at least better
> than what HG Wells foresaw The Time Machine.

Well, evil is more distributed on Urth, hence more diluted, but so is good.

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