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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:43:14PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
> Nathan Saper wrote:
> 
> > Fine.  My basis for my claim is that the NSA is the best funded and
> > best equiped electronic intelligence agency in the world, and they
> > have employed some of the smartest people in the world.
> 
> And the NASA is the best funded and best equiped rocket-launching agency
> in the world, and they also
> have employed some of the smartest people in the world, but they can't
> make a spaceship that will go faster than light.  Ot that could get
> humans to Saturn and back anytime in the next 20 years. 
> 
> Smart people and large funding don't repeal the laws of nature.
> 

Unless I'm mistaken, there is no essential physical law that
determines computing power, exploits of algorithms, etc.  The same
cannot be said for speed-of-light travel.

> Ken
> 
> 

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