Mike Carrell wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Philip Winestone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products > > >> "If the goal is a combination of stability and instability that is a >> disgusting mix >> of opportunism and pragmatism." >> >> Nope - it's called "life". > ========================== > Exactly so. There is an excellent book, "At Home in the Universe", which > persuasively argues that Life, as a dynamic biochemical process, exists in > the non-equilibrium zone between statsis and chaos. If you want order, try > prison. A gun-toting Segway has an ancestor celebrated by a statue in > Ukraine, three rearward-pointing guns mounted on a horse-drawn carriage, > which was a decisive weapon in some war or other. > > Living orgasnisms are in continual contest with the unfolding Universe. No > static, "safe" solution exists, even for a nation, for the external world > continually changes and that which does not change with it will die. > > Mike Carrell
Wow, Does the author of that book actually use language like "Living organisms are in continual contest with the unfolding Universe"? Harry
