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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #251
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From: Bard Bloom 

> material wealth in our own solar system.  I doubt there is any
> substance, object or source of energy that would be worth the time
> and energy to make an interstellar voyage.  It would almost always
> be easier to find or build something ourselves, certainly easier

How about stroon (immortality drugs), as in Cordwainer Smith's 
_Norstrilia_ and related works?  Unless we could synthesize them here,
of course.  Immortality is worth a lot to some people.

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