From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: Led4acs@aol.com
Subject: Re: The Eye of the Beholder (TAS): my review
On Oct 9, 8:17aam, "Steven L." wrote:
> "Led4Aces" wrote in message
>
> news:7a3d349f-7bf2-4184-a839-a6f3b03f788e@17g2000prv.googlegroups.com:
>
> > On Oct 7, 7:21 am, Graeme wrote:
> > > Another odd thing about Trek in general. How is it that every
> > > superior race the Federation meets, and there have been several. How
> > > 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. aWhich 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).
I don't think that's likely. How can we know all there is to know
about far away objects like quasars? We only see their light from
millions of years ago.
And speaking of an expanding universe, there are some objects so far
away that we can't see them at all (and never will). I think total
knowledge of everything just isn't possible.
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