From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-04-19T01:04:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
>> And besides, who are we kidding thinking that the planet needs us?
>> It's been around for a long time before we were here and can do
>> without us fine**x, where x is a Bignum.
>
> Who will move it to a safe orbit as the Sun goes off the Main Sequence?
Hmm I was very recently thinking that we are really worried about the
wrong thing. 10**9 years is a long time to be hit by a big enough
meteorite to really worry about. That is where research and argggg
weapon like devices are needed to prevent aehems, ....
>
> Mother Nature works in mysterious ways. Including sometimes via Epic Fail.
Oh she does and extinction might happen despite all our efforts, even
"tomorrow" and without our doings. I however think we should still
deploy our efforts, don't you?

And now for something completely different, the more I follow the
links Christophe provides the less I feel that this thread is OT.
Those models seem maybe utopic to you? Well I would have liked to have
your prognosis about the Open Source movement when it started to
evolve, would you have thaught it might come so far and lead to
strange languages like err "Ruby" :).

Cheers
Robert