Re: [jbosnu] kalsa gugrgentina

["michael helsem" <graywyvern@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>
li'o

.o'esai ge darno zgana gi xenru .i ko sezykurji co'omi'e maikl.


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One day, about 10 years ago, I posed this conventional "thought experiment" 
to my closest biological colleague (also the most brilliant man I have ever 
known), Dick Lewontin: If you could invent a time machine to visit any 
moment of the earth?s history, either in the past or future, where would you 
go? (You get only one choice, and your temporary visit does not impact 
history in your status as pure spectator.)

I offered the conventional and boring paleontological response: take me back 
to one of the most salient moments in the history of life (the midst of the 
Cambrian explosion, or the instant of impact for the large extraterrestrial 
body that struck the earth and triggered the last great mass extinction 65 
million years ago).

Dick, on the other hand, answered in the opposite and far more interesting 
direction. He said: "No, Steve, I?d go the other way. I want the machine to 
set me down in New York City exactly 100 years from today. I will need only 
15 seconds at the site. I just need to know whether it?s still there. All 
insight that I might obtain from the future, for guiding the rest of my 
life, flows directly from the answer to this question."
--Stephen Jay Gould


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