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On 1/6/25 11:58 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2025-01-07, 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/6/25 1:35 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> _We_ are the locusts.  See my .sig.
>>
>>     Ummmmm ... you don't work in a secret govt bio-war
>>     lab do you ?
> 
> No, I just do a little basic math.
> 
>>     In any case, as I said to another here, we now have
>>     eight billion people
> 
> ... and counting ...
> 
>>                          all wanting to live the life
>>     of a Kardashian ... 1st-world plus. CAN'T happen,
>>     maybe not even with an extra century of tech. This
>>     causes all sorts of dissatisfaction and politics
>>     and chaos. May largely kill ourselves off before
>>     the 'resources' run out.
>>
>>     It's a problem.
>>
>>     Know how to knap a flint spearhead ?
> 
> I could probably learn.  I didn't get that ability
> bred out of me.

   I watched a guy do it once ... archeology prof.
   Doesn't LOOK too hard, but apparently there's
   art and eye to striking Just Right. Pressure-
   flaking makes nicer stuff, but there's great
   danger in fracture.

   Anyway, for 100 years or so there'll still be
   lots of metal bits laying around you can put
   a point on .....