Even if we had 100, 1000 years, I doubt remediation would be possible. Hope this puts your planning into perspective. 6 months to go...

REAlity

-- reality@check.com (foo@foo.com), July 27, 1999

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Just so long as we are ready by Y-10-K.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), July 27, 1999.

How much would a thousand years of dehydrated food cost? Does anyone sell a thousand year package for a family of 6? How many well pumps would I need to buy and stock? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never mind. I checked the expiration date on my foot and it says I'd be gone by then.

-- daryl (rushmore@dailypost.com), July 27, 1999.

Since this is about Y2K, I assume your figures are in bug-years. Although there is currently no universally recognized standard definition of a bug-year, I myself tend to favor the Hessian fly metric.

Now, the female Hessian fly has an average life expectancy of about 3 days. Thus, 1 human-year would be approximately 70 * 365 / 3 = 8516.66 bug-years.

I have to agree with your point--it seems to me that remediation will require thousands of bug-years!

-- Peter Harlan (pharlan@efn.org), July 27, 1999.

I respectfully disagree...for I firmly believe that the society will be rebuilt within 100 years. Of course, most of us will be deceased by then...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), July 27, 1999.

Reality,

Make that FIVE months, plus a few days remaining in July.

1. August 2. September 3. October 4. November 5. December

Just five days from now it will be only FOUR months and change.

-- Lawrence (not@this.time), July 27, 1999.

We seem to have built another great civilization over the past 5 centuries. And like all the other great civilizations, it will die.

I think it is important that it only took 500 years to get this far. We had to be doing something right. The Chinese have been at it ten times that long and based on what I see, ain't made as much progress.

I can't decide what would be worse, only wounding the beast and suffering it's slow, agonizing death, or driving a stake through it's heart, knowing what another 1000 years of hunter-gatherer based human history means for the participants.

People stopped living that way for a reason.

If Y2K is a ten, it might take more than a thousand years to recover.

Anybody know the half life of CRT?

-- Lead Mouse in the Wall (greytek@hotmail.com), July 27, 1999.