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To: JGoren who wrote (54363)	12/16/1999 3:36:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

*Oxygen, Bacteria and CDMA proliferation* JG, Voltaire is way off track on this one. CO2 is measured in parts per million. When oil or gas is burned, it takes 2 oxygen atoms for each C atom and produces 1 CO2 molecule for every 2 oxygen atoms consumed. So if we take out half the oxygen, we have to produce many percentages of CO2. So halving the oxygen would make CO2 about 20% of the atmosphere if half of it was oxygen 100 years ago, which it wasn't. Where did you get those numbers Voltaire? Maybe like me you just slipped an order of magnitude [two in this case]. On the medical front, Valueman is more right than the idea that they didn't know about microbes 1000 years ago so couldn't describe the disease. They could describe symptoms perfectly adequately. As Vman says, the big deal these days is 6bn people all living within 6 degrees of separation or whatever it is and 24 hours of each other and 80% of them in urban areas. Compare that with only 100 years ago when 80% of the 2bn people lived in rural areas and it was months from one end of the world to another. Disease is all about vectors of transmission. The numbers and speed of propagation work in favour of the diseases, but our disease control systems and understanding is heading them off at the pass. In the better-off countries anyway, though Africa is still subject to huge epidemics such as AIDS. So diseases have zero to do with burning oil, the greenhouse effect and CO2 or oxygen content in the air. Other than the indirect consequence of burning the fuel which takes the aircraft and the disease around the world in 80 hours rather than 80 days. Not a lot to do with CDMA, but a LOT to do with CDNA [TM] and the rate of propagation of CDMA around the world. Just like diseases, technology depends on vectors of transmission and rapid cloning with a huge array of varieties of which the strongest survive in a colossal quantum computing effort in which all states exist and the process of existing creates the solution. Something like that anyway. We use our brains to inhibit disease, cut off vectors of transmission and destroy it. We use our brains to enhance technology and make it propagate faster. We are entering the hyperspeed realm. Hold onto your seats! Smallpox is extinct [other than in a laboratory]. CDMA is alive and kicking and breeding like a nuclear fission process. But Voltaire is right about the dietary inadequacy causing disease. Take the contents of a supermarket, mix it up together and you don't get a nutritious enough diet. Cattle in New Zealand get selenium injections but humans don't although the same deficiency exists. All sorts of nutritional deficiencies exist, and I'd say probably in all of us to a greater or lesser extent since our diets are quite random and a function of our taste and supermarket content. Mqurice