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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: What an advanced race would come far to get...
Message-ID: <467@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 14:45:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmintl.467
Posted: Fri Jun 28 14:45:12 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 06:17:58 EDT
References: <2389@topaz.ARPA>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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Summary: No they wouldn't



In article <2389@topaz.ARPA> you write:
>From: jcr@Mitre-Bedford
>> From: looking!brad@topaz.arpa (Brad Templeton)
>> There's only one commodity a highly advanced race
>> would travel light-years to take by force, and that's slaves.  It
>> certainly isn't water.
>
>I have to disagree.
>
>1)  If you're running out of water, and you don't have the resources
>to reclaim it or manufacture it, then you've only one option open to
>you: go get some more! And believe me, you'll go whatever distance it
>takes to get it!

The problem is that there are *much* easier ways to get water.  As an
obvious example, there is considerably more water in the rings and moons
of Saturn than on the surface of the Earth.  It's frozen, but that hardly
matters.

Even more directly, water is made from hydrogen and oxygen, which are two
of the most common elements in the universe.  It takes a lot less energy
to make water than it does to cross interstellar space.