(urth) The green man is a fake

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sun Jan 16 13:20:20 PST 2011


And sci-fi is a religion.

On 1/16/2011 3:38 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>
> Yes, but one must allow the possibility that artifically manufactured 
> algae could leverage the sunlight to get more oomph. Even today, 
> people boost the idea of solar energy replacing carbon fuels in all 
> our vehicles and homes. They expect this even though after 3.5 billion 
> years of evolution no creature that uses a significant amount of 
> energy (like say a really lazy alligator) relies on solar energy even 
> primarily. They all rely on carbon fuels and --at best-- gain 
> supplementary energy from the sun. Yet, hope in technological 
> breakthroughs springs eternal. And, this is, after all a sci-fi story.
>


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