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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Hari Seldon Speaks!

Hari Seldon was the father of the mathematical discipline of Psychohistory, as delineated by Isaac Azimov in the Foundation series of books. So, Seldon's vault opens once again and he speaks to us: When man returns to the Moon, the probability of Chinese nationality individuals being among the crew is 60%; the probability that the mission will be a Chinese mission is 33%; the probability that no Americans will be along for the ride is 5%. The 5% probability that no Americans would be on the mission was vanishingly small - about .00007667 % just 5 years ago. Wow!

Hari Seldon
note: I used a photo of Asa Kasher to represent Hari Seldon.

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