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To: Moominoid who wrote (2102)	7/22/2001 7:07:19 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12411

When I first heard of the Gaia Hypothesis more than 30 years ago, I was intrigued by the notion the Earth can maintain itself and correct itself, and do this because it behaves very much like a living organism itself... it was reassuring to me..... I haven't heard much about it in all these years, and I thought you might have known something more current on the Hypothesis and the work of James Lovelock..... Physical Science is that department of knowledge which relates to the order of nature, or in other words, to the regular succession of events. The name of physical science, however, is often applied in a more or less restricted manner to those branches of science in which the phenomena considered are of the simplest and most abstract kind, excluding the consideration of the more complex phenomena, such as those observed in living beings... And yet here in 1988, a group of geophysical scientists convene a meeting over the Gaia Hypothesis - the hypothesis which implies the Earth may be considered as a vast living system... This would have been inconceivable only prior to the time of space-flight... yet, as a direct consequence of space flight, and through the technology of computerised image communications, for the first time in his generic history, man is able to perceive physically his native global terrestrial home from an extra-terrestrial vantage point... this is some exciting stuff..... Here are some great links to the Gaia Hypothesis... dir.yahoo.com GZ