From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: The Eye of the Beholder (TAS): my review   
      
   "Steven L."  wrote in    
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   > "Led4Aces"  wrote in message    
   > news:7a3d349f-7bf2-4184-a839-a6f3b03f788e@17g2000prv.googlegroups.com:   
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   >> 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?   
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   >> 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.   
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   > 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).   
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   > -- Steven L.   
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   I'll believe it when people learn the difference between they're, their    
   and there.     
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