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Offline Dracho

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Re: Commercializing Space - with prize money or subsidies
« Reply #20 on: December 17, 2005, 09:29:55 am »
Of course life doesn't have a purpose.  Life IS a purpose.

I must respectfully disagree...  Life is a mathematical probability...  A random convergence of circumstances...  We're here but by the grace of pure blind luck, and if we survive another thousand years, or a million it will be for the same reason...

I do not think it would strive as hard to continue and improve itself if it were merely a mathematical anomaly.  Life is striving to achieve... something..

Really?  What?

That's really the $64,000 question.  It's also very difficult to ascertain, being part of the experiment and all.  It's very difficult to see outside of the parameters.

Well, if you think life has a purpose and I don't, I dare say you're the one that's winning, so I'll stop trying to talk you out of it...

I've conducted experiments and I've just about concluded the purpose somehow involves beer and willing females, but I need more research..
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Re: Commercializing Space - with prize money or subsidies
« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2005, 09:51:56 am »
I agree...  Starting this very evening...


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Re: Commercializing Space - with prize money or subsidies
« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2005, 10:11:13 am »
Seriously,  it might be that the purpose of life is simply to live it.  How much more then the loss of those who never truly do?
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Re: Commercializing Space - with prize money or subsidies
« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2005, 11:22:19 am »
Seriously,  it might be that the purpose of life is simply to live it.  How much more then the loss of those who never truly do?

Everyone lives it, whether they want to or not, I would think...


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Re: Commercializing Space - with prize money or subsidies
« Reply #24 on: December 18, 2005, 01:30:30 am »
The purpose of life is not to know the purpose, it is to find it.
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Re: Commercializing Space - with prize money or subsidies
« Reply #25 on: December 18, 2005, 01:47:42 am »
The purpose of life is not to know the purpose, it is to find it.

In all honesty, the purpose of my life is to have as much fun as possible while doing as little work as possible...  I like learning new things, but I don't always do a lot with the knowledge...


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Re: Commercializing Space - with prize money or subsidies
« Reply #26 on: December 18, 2005, 09:25:43 pm »
Of course, whenever anyone states the meaning of life, they forget to add "my" before "life".

Any other meaning is pretentious drivel :)
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Re: Commercializing Space - with prize money or subsidies
« Reply #27 on: December 19, 2005, 07:12:07 am »
Of course, whenever anyone states the meaning of life, they forget to add "my" before "life".

Any other meaning is pretentious drivel :)

Yeah, I read you five by five on that one...


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