On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:40:53PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: > 1. I don't think world peace is possible. We are a race that cannot be > at peace with each other. I agree with all the aliens that say this. I > am resigned to the fact that we humans will kill each other for a > multitude of things that change periodically. Religion seems to be the > current favorite.
I agree there will be always conflict as well as cooperation. > 2. The planet will save itself. We are incapable of getting over our Without us, the ecology is dead, cooked meat at about +500 megayears, probably much sooner if there's a great impactor or supervolcanism event. > selfishness. But, on the flip side, this might lead to World Peace by > wiping out humans. Humans (not necessarily the kind you see when you look into the bathroom mirror) either have no future at all (having joined the current autoextinction event as a yet another stratum in the fossil record), or be a local catalyst/nucleus of an expanding wave of life that will consume most of the visible universe. Making it aware, alive. A good thing, no? > An "optimistic" Venkat -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
