home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky talk.abortion:57446 talk.religion.misc:27327 alt.atheism:26872
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!news
- From: brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:28:03 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
- Lines: 34
- Message-ID: <lm17p3INNe81@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu>
- References: <1993Jan19.050539.6745@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan21.035734.4006@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan21.215507.10830@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu
-
- In article <1993Jan21.215507.10830@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
-
- >Unlike you, however, I live in the Real World (tm) and this just is
- >not going to be a reality anytime soon. If you want to leave it open
- >to *incredibly* expensive metal mommas, then in perhaps 50-75 years,
- >we might see something. But an inexpensive one? Kibble, a vaccine
- >against the mumps will cost you $50 in most pediatricians office. And
- >the cost certainly is not going down. If you can envision an
- >inexpensive metal moma in the near future, you're either desperately in
- >need of a reality check, or merely woefully ignorant about life
- >support technologies.
- >But since it's you, it's quite possibly both.
-
- A workable, relatively inexpensive computer seemed unlikely in the near
- future around the 1930s, until the Army jumped on the chance to make
- possible a machine that could make their shells strike more accurately.
- One thing leads to another, and now we have Sparc Workstations for a measly
- five thousand bucks.
-
- (Well okay, so it's been fifty years since the Army invested in it.
- At least it was on the low end of your estimate, Mark. :) )
-
- My point is that the turmoil caused by the abortion issue could speed
- things up incredibly. Being a non-medical person, I can only sit by
- and hope. (If it needs a program to run, though, gimme a call!) If
- not a "metal momma", maybe something else. We'll come up with something.
-
- Remember when they said it was definitely impossible to discover the
- chemical makeup inside a star?
-
- Paul Brinkley
- brinkley@cs.utexas.edu
- Pro-Thought Advocate
-
-