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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by Xichekolas on Saturday January 10, 2009 @08:53PM (#428657)
An astute observation, but you could generalize this as:

Geeks seem to have this funny blindspot when it comes to premature optimization if the premature optimization makes for an interesting problem.

Even if the death of the sun is not imminent, it's still an amusing scenario to toss around.

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by patio11 on Saturday January 10, 2009 @09:04PM (#428667)
Yes, but I only hear of this particular amusing scenario in the context of "Why you should be forced to give your money to support a government agency which I approve of".
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