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To: Brumar89 who wrote (124963)	2/24/2004 9:54:01 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

< we evolved in ice age earth. Humanity is performing a massive experiment. > Not really in that the last 10,000 years wasn't ice age, but before that it was, but then before that it wasn't, but before that it was ... etc. So we have evolved in a constantly shifting climate and with a flipping magnetic field to boot. Stone age pilots had a tough time navigating as their compasses would go wrong. Our DNA is designed with variability as a challenge. Even 10,000 years ago, people could live anywhere from the Arctic circle to tropical jungle and do very well. We have DNA to handle intense sun and long winter nights. On the experiment, it's not us doing the experiment, it's nature and we are stuck with the stupid experiment whether we like it or not. We are in a very large real-time one way experiment in which nature tossed a tiny ball of dirt and stuff into orbit around a regular kind of star and things started condensing, cooling, separating into constituents, being filtered, chemically reacted, exploded by volcano and buried in ice. Then the biological world started running an infinitely complex DNA design process, the only control being that the survivors get to try again another day. But 99.999999999% of DNA random mutation experiments in this horribly cruel quantum computing filtering process died out. Nature is an obscenity, bringing us sars, warts, worms and brain tumours. Nature is running this experiment with indifference to the outcome, which could well be a frozen Earth with the carbon stripped out into coal, oil, gas, limestone. That's the direction it has been going. We are part of the experiment. If we see nature up to no good, there's no reason not to do something about it. Nature is a mindless moron, just freezing up or turning to desert without a care in the world. At least we are aware of the experiment and can do something about it. It's weird that we are conscious of the thing that's made us conscious and that the experiment has produced the only thing which is able to think about what to do in the experiment. That very consciousness creates the reality of the thing being observed. Where's the man behind the curtain? Something's definitely suspicious about this experiment. But without knowing the full story, we can't just sit paralyzed as presume that the experiment is a good one for us. There's plenty of evidence that nature is indifferent to us [mosquitoes, malaria, chicken flu, tigers, worms of various types, wolves and lots of other things eat us alive and lots of other things eat us as soon as we are dead]. So we shouldn't assume that the man behind the curtain isn't just playing a big joke on us and the experiment has a dead end and our challenge is to try to change the experiment before it's too late. If we fail, it's game over and Earth spins on for a billion years as frozen tundra with an atmosphere stripped of carbon. We are stuck with this experiment, so let's start experimenting. I say dig up some more carbon and let's be quick about it. There's an ice age coming and we need to head it off at the pass. Putting the carbon back where it belongs is a good start. Mqurice