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deeliciousplum (August 26, 2008 at 3:33 am)
Instilling fear in the public is something that falls under the most commonly used form of control. One need not even make a stretch for current examples of this within our own behaviours. There are a few common oppressive thinking patterns that fall both within the religious and scientific circles, one of these is the behaviour entitled: self-interest. If we could see through the veil of deception, we would see this trait as the bond that keeps those 2 communities together.
deeliciousplum (August 26, 2008 at 3:27 am)
though there is an immense beauty and truth within the parameters of science and discovery, there is also an unfathomable amount of tragedy & sadness. Hipatia sought to excel in her studies and to bring this knowledge to the public at large. This desire went against the laws and wishes of both religious and academic circles. To silence her love for truth & the sharing of knowledge, the community harmed her in the most horrifying way. This would, in turn, set fear into any who followed her path
belle2smart (August 25, 2008 at 8:37 am)
He makes so many good points about science and human nature.
Nuclearcx (August 24, 2008 at 1:54 pm)
After all we already have an International Space Station, it's not that big of a reach to suggest we could colonize other planets or asteroids
Nuclearcx (August 24, 2008 at 1:24 pm)
We'll probably have mars and jupiter colonies so that even if the people on earth manage to screw up the people on the colonies can pick up the ball and continue the game.And by then we probably have like satellitescans for dangerous substances like plutonium and then if someone has it just send a signal to the chip to poison taht bastard and stop him from nuking anyone!But yeah I guess it is pointless to "what if.." about alexandria.
Eikinkloster (August 24, 2008 at 1:18 pm)
But I'm not asking them to return to caves, boards, and plagues. Just to stop whinnying about how we have been set back a thousand years in progress. But I believe we will eventually return to caves and boars. For a simple reason: The power to destroy increases in both dimension and availability. It's a matter of time before every other human will have his own nukes. And then killing sprees will be nuking sprees, and Muslim suicide bombers will be Muslim suicide nukers. That will be the end.
Nuclearcx (August 24, 2008 at 1:13 pm)
Major demographic shifts take way longer than just a couple of decades to happen.Scientific breakthroughs can happen in a few years and mature in a decade.So it's quite likely that the very speeding progress will save us rather than doom us :) It's too late to turn back now and ask people to go live in caves and hunt boars.And how we can stop people from blowing up the power lines: Let's put rfid chips with a cyanide capsel in them, and when they're being bad release the poison :P
Eikinkloster (August 24, 2008 at 12:51 pm)
But that *is* the Jetson's dream. It doesn't seem so likely now as it did in the 60's. And certainly there is no way to know whether we would have that or a dystopia where Muslims would blow the power lines and leave you with all your gadgets turned off.So I think we'd best stop morning that which we didn't get (a world where the Alexandria Library wasn't destroyed) and try to salvage what we still have. Hopefully, this one thousand years of darkness gave us some extra expertise.
Nuclearcx (August 24, 2008 at 12:33 pm)
Also maybe we can make machines that can think for us and medicine that can make us happy and fix all our most pressing problems and virtual reality where we can play out different lives or whatevér fantisies and stuff like that. When you're engaged in things like that and live to like 200 yo who cares about the collapse of society and stuff like that
mistermuffin420 (August 24, 2008 at 6:45 am)
truely a great role model. he has converted many people into scientists. furthermore, he has made many people use the word "far" in their speech. eg. "this comment is far better than those of the previous". |
