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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (7716)	11/27/2006 12:41:22 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12246

Ashley, it certainly is exciting, albeit a slow-motion version of exciting. <Thus I don't know that by enhancing the greenhouse effect, we're decreasing the chances of an ice-age. It's a huge experiment. Exciting. > Nuclear Armageddon was much more exciting, though I remember it more as terrifying. Not as terrifying as the possible change from a living Earth to a cooked Earth, but I rate that as very unlikely given the vast stripping of the ecosphere and freezing process over umpty eons. A 7 degree increase I'd call fun and exciting. The actuality of Global Warming [0.7 deg C] I think is trivial to pathetic, which is all we have achieved despite a century of major efforts to recover fossil hydrocarbons and coal and restore CO2 levels. We should bear in mind that when talking about "experiments", the nature of nature is that we are living in a never-ending real-time experiment, which does NOT have as its purpose a happy outcome for you and me, or any of the other 6 billion simian-like primates strutting around on their hind legs. Any happy outcome is solely up to us. It's fair to say that as far as the rest of nature is concerned, we are nothing more than food supplies - very delicious, with no horns, fur, scales, toxins, barbs, spikes, armour. We are not even good at running to escape. Thank goodness for our technological talents. Leaving things "the same" is just as much an experiment as doing something different. We don't have the option of opting out of the experiment. All we can do is use our brain-power to figure out the most likely way to succeed in the experimental war-zone, which is coming ready or not, and there's no way out [no Matrix emergency phone to call "Beam Me Up Scotty" - to mix a couple of movies]. Mqurice