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... commune.)

Yes, there are bright people out there who can be just that silly.  (Having a couple of degrees doesn't alas stop you from being a fool.)

So yes by all means (as I told Skeexix) let's move ahead and transition to different and (we hope) better things when the technology is there - but in the meantime, don't forget to keep the lights on and the wheels turning.  I'm afraid that some people who spend all their time staring at imaginary worlds on computer screens, tend to forget that there's a *real* world out there with its own exigencies ...

One thing that fascinates me is the great gap between the government bureaucrat and life-long academic scientists on one hand, versus those who work in private industrial research and development - when it comes to the degree of concern about modern climate trends.  The distinction generally appears quite sharp.   Future sociologists and historians of science will have a lot of fun with this topic.

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