Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!BARD From: BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #251 Message-ID: <2630@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 14:01:22 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2630 Posted: Tue Jul 9 14:01:22 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 08:09:21 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 12 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. -------