From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: The Eye of the Beholder (TAS): my review   
      
      
      
   "Led4Aces"  wrote in message    
   news:7a3d349f-7bf2-4184-a839-a6f3b03f788e@17g2000prv.googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Oct 7, 7:21aam, Graeme  wrote:   
   > > Another odd thing about Trek in general. aHow is it that every   
   > > superior race the Federation meets, and there have been several. aHow   
   > > is it that NONE of them seem to have the slightest interest in space   
   > > travel, and just sit around on their home planets waiting to be   
   > > discovered?   
   >   
   > My take on it is that advanced beings like the Thasians and Metrons   
   > have "seen it all" and either weren't impressed with what they found   
   > "out there" or simply retired into their own little corner of the   
   > universe.   
      
   Physicist Frank Tipler has pointed out that human knowledge is expanding    
   at a faster rate than the Universe is expanding.  Which means that if    
   our civilization exists long enough, its expanding knowledge base will    
   eventually "catch up" to the Universe and know everything there is to    
   know about the Universe.   
      
   And then there will be no further point to exploration or research. We    
   will have learned all that is learnable (to borrow a phrase from    
   ST:TMP).   
      
      
      
   -- Steven L.   
      
      
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