Saturday, February 13, 2010
In the Spirit if Valentines Day
Monday, February 8, 2010
A Question of Ethics
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Just some Stuff. Whatever.
Lots of things will happen in this world that cannot be predicted. But there are some things that definintely will never happen, and some that definitely will.
Stop Terrorism – The simple fact is that terrorism is part of life. As long as there are freaky people who want to tell other people how to live their lives, or people who want to take something from someone else, there will be terrorism – in one form or another. And I don’t see a shortage of freaks any time soon. Dealing with terrorists is like taking out the trash. It don’t matter how much trash you took out yesterday, tomorrow there will be more trash to take out.
Contact Intelligent Life outside our solar System – Never mind the fact that the jury is still out on whether or not there is intelligent life on earth, I really have a hard time believing that we will find it elsewhere, let alone contact them. I do believe that intelligent life it is out there. The odds are really good for that. I just think that we won’t ever find it. The universe is so ridiculously large – and we are so minutely small that I think the odds are simply too great to overcome. We must also consider that ‘timing’ is critical. The earth is 5 billion years old and our ability (technologically) to even detect E.T. is only 60 years old. An alien life form could have called us just 62 years ago and we would not have even heard the phone ring. For all we know, that light the 3 wise men followed, could have been E.T. saying hello. Too bad we didn’t have an answering machine to pick up and say, “I’m sorry, we can’t come to the phone right now, our savior is being born and we too ignorant to know that you have called. Please call back in about 2000 years.”
Survive our own technology – My final prediction is that we probably won’t survive our own technology. I know, what a downer. But the simple fact is that we have invented far more ways to destroy ourselves then we have invented to save ourselves. Whether by a man made plague; nuclear war; trying to manipulate our environment; genetic un-gineering; becoming dependant on our technology, or having our own robots take over the earth – I believe that mankind’s technology has far outpaced his wisdom. As a species, mankind harbors too much evil. In fact, we are the only species that that acts with evil & malice. We are the only species that kills for pleasure. While other animals may defend territory or resources, only mankind ‘conspires’ to assure that others are forbidden to acquire their own resources. Do think that Dinosours would have lived for 100 million years if they had our attitude? Neither do I.