"Eugene Miya" <eugene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> Jon <jonmein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>They are caching food and supplies. Are they caching information,
>>too?
>
> Yeah, they usually have a library, commonly US Army field manuals
> [...] basic first aid
But can they repair the damaged infrastructure, the communications
systems, refineries, etc...
>>Are they prepared to deal with loss of basic sup****t infrastruture?
>
> I think your simplest answer to your first question is like a high bar
> (threshold) that they hope they can do.
Do they go back to the coal age, steam age? Limited trade?
> 2001 was just air. It was more problematic for those on the ground
> (short term). We all handled it in different ways.
Small disruption of one mode of trans****tation.
> I'm personally a little clueless about Katrina.
> New Orleans is a city of which I have really no
> interest. It shouldn't be there.
N.O. isn't the only city in the wrong place environmentally.
> Ask the Dutch.
We cycled through many miles within polders.
> They have 1 side of water to deal with, New Orleans
> has 3 sides. It should be abandoned as a city.
Think North Sea, 1953. Natural forces. Also failure of
planning and infrastructure played a role. 1800+ people
killed. Large areas inundated. Dutch didn't abandon.
>>> A-ark, B-ark, or C-ark. You didn't want to be on any of
>>> THOSE arks.
>>
>>Well, the B-ark people survived to populate another planet. The
>>A/C-ark designees never launched, never planned to,-- it was just
>>a sham to get rid of the "non-contributors". Instead the A's and C's
>>were wiped out by a disease trivially preventable by the B-arker's
>>they banished.
>
> No, not quite.
> The B-ark people survived a short time on the proto-Earth.
> That was the basis for So Long and Thanks for All the Fish.
> Arthur and Ford and the others deduced that the B-arkers, barkers,
> weren't the precursors to Earth's modern humans.
In which version? The first books were radio series first.
And which earth? Adams uses the concept of a "plural zone".
And how much happened only within the virtual universe
constructued to ensnare Zaphod?
I'm rereading the books now. In the original radio series
Ford proposes that the Golgafrinchans are human ancestors.
> But this is fiction.
Entertaining, creative, parts of it, thought provoking...
Jon
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