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	<title>Comments on: It&#8217;s time to leave earth</title>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10617/comment-page-1#comment-132029</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>G.W.Bush wants to return to the moon.
Just let him programm the flight plan and get some bretzels on board and the job should be done !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>G.W.Bush wants to return to the moon.<br />
Just let him programm the flight plan and get some bretzels on board and the job should be done !</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10617/comment-page-1#comment-131155</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are a lot of other people I&#039;d rather not share this planet with, like crack addicts, meth-heads, drunk drivers, wife beaters, pedophiles, rapists and people who listen to Rush &quot;Hillbilly Heroin&quot; Cheese-for-Brains Limbaugh.

Stephen Hawking, regardless of what you might think of him or his ideas, is a respected member of society.  He&#039;s fought long and hard to survive and contribute to humanity despite great obstacles. The world is a better place with him in it, nutty ideas and all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a lot of other people I&#8217;d rather not share this planet with, like crack addicts, meth-heads, drunk drivers, wife beaters, pedophiles, rapists and people who listen to Rush &#8220;Hillbilly Heroin&#8221; Cheese-for-Brains Limbaugh.</p>
<p>Stephen Hawking, regardless of what you might think of him or his ideas, is a respected member of society.  He&#8217;s fought long and hard to survive and contribute to humanity despite great obstacles. The world is a better place with him in it, nutty ideas and all.</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10617/comment-page-1#comment-131129</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Feel free to be the first to leave, then, Mr. Hawking. Nobody much wants you here, anyway. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Feel free to be the first to leave, then, Mr. Hawking. Nobody much wants you here, anyway.</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10617/comment-page-1#comment-131094</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, I for one, would send georgie w. The sooner he&#039;s gone - and the farther he goes, the safer the future of Earth&#039;s population will be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I for one, would send georgie w. The sooner he&#8217;s gone &#8211; and the farther he goes, the safer the future of Earth&#8217;s population will be.</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10617/comment-page-1#comment-131092</link>
		<dc:creator>Reader's Write</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hawking must be watching &quot;Firefly&quot; reruns. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_fiction#Firefly

But seriously, before we all pick up and leave for the stars I think we need to do our best to heal whatever damage we&#039;ve done to this planet first. It&#039;d be a shame if we went and &quot;despoiled&quot; other worlds just because Humanity did not require itself to clean up its mess at home.

If Hawking is right, and I believe that when it comes to space exploration, travel and eventual colonization, he is. If only because it&#039;s still a grand idea even if it also becomes an economic necessity. If so, then we as a species would need to become something more than locusts, a blight on the face of the universe. We can only do that if we first learn to be responsible home owners. Otherwise, the lesson we&#039;d take to the stars is that exploitation is not only profitable but socially acceptable.

Because, like, you know, there&#039;s always gonna be another planet we can trash, right dude?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hawking must be watching &#8220;Firefly&#8221; reruns. </p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_fiction#Firefly" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_fiction#Firefly</a></p>
<p>But seriously, before we all pick up and leave for the stars I think we need to do our best to heal whatever damage we&#8217;ve done to this planet first. It&#8217;d be a shame if we went and &#8220;despoiled&#8221; other worlds just because Humanity did not require itself to clean up its mess at home.</p>
<p>If Hawking is right, and I believe that when it comes to space exploration, travel and eventual colonization, he is. If only because it&#8217;s still a grand idea even if it also becomes an economic necessity. If so, then we as a species would need to become something more than locusts, a blight on the face of the universe. We can only do that if we first learn to be responsible home owners. Otherwise, the lesson we&#8217;d take to the stars is that exploitation is not only profitable but socially acceptable.</p>
<p>Because, like, you know, there&#8217;s always gonna be another planet we can trash, right dude?</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10617/comment-page-1#comment-131076</link>
		<dc:creator>Reader's Write</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>now I know who was responsible for creating the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation :-P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>now I know who was responsible for creating the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation <img src='http://www.p2pnet.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':-P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation</a></p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10617/comment-page-1#comment-131072</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d send Bush and Hemming on a one-way trip to a new planet in another solar system.

Think of the &quot;off&quot;-spring they would have.... </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d send Bush and Hemming on a one-way trip to a new planet in another solar system.</p>
<p>Think of the &#8220;off&#8221;-spring they would have&#8230;.</p>
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