Lots of interesting nuggets in this.  Thanks for the link.  But mainly I
wanted to ask:  Is your Hawking quote accurate?  (Surely the second last
word should be "without"?)  Regards, Brett.

"Michael Ragland"  wrote in message
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>
> P.S. I thought I was alone in my belief intelligent life could modify
> the physical laws of the universe for its own purposes. Many may
> strongly disagree with Freeman Dyson but I don't think anybody would
> justifiably consider him a crackpot.
>
> http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Omega/dyson.txt
>
> "It's uncertain whether intelligence has any long term survival value.
> Bacteria do quite well with it."
>
> Stephen Hawking
>
>
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