amicus
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KC, not that you are open to it, but others may be, thus I offer a small peek at perspective as it applies to human science.
In the long history of the species on this planet, the last 150 years, give or take, have been the most accellerated ones in terms of scientific discoveries and invention.
Utilizing the power of steam, writers at the time thought that the end all and be all of the future, others saw it as the harbinger of doom, with the factories and industry and the decimation of pastoral life.
It turned out to be neither as soon after, Electricity took center stage and that was thought to be the ulimate in human progress as the technology virtually turned night into day.
But those, by God hotdog scientists showed us how to electricute people and use electric energy to cure all illness and even control the mentally.
Then that marvel of the internal combustion engine that truly turned the world upside down and brought an end to the age of horsepower in the old sense.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch in physics and chemistry and astronomy, other, more obscure revelations were coming to light and lo and behold, mankind advanced by leaps and bounds with even more efficient methods of both production and killing each other in mass conflict.
Then some damn fool archaeologist dug up some bones and declared they were millions of years old and God suffered a near fatal stroke.
Then another by God, hotdog scientist concerned about Noah's Ark, postulated a biblical proportion flood of natural causes and climate change that might well have brought about a bottleneck in human existence through ice ages and corresponding droughts and famines and whatever, a gold mine of theoretical discoveries.
My memory does not function in perfect chronological order, so be critical if you wish, but discovery after discovery, be it eugenics or virus theory, led to panic about world wide epidemics created by the carelessness of man in the laboratory and legislation was considered to prevent all such research.
As a species, we are children playing with an erector set who are ignorant of the function of most of the pieces we have arrayed before us.
We know of plate techtonics and vulcanology, we know of asteroids and sunspots and solar radiation and once upon a time the majority of scientest swore and all agreed the Van Allen radiation belt would forever prevent man from venturing into space.
The moon used to orbit the earth a lot closer than it does now, close enough to raise tides to a thousand meters instead of a few meters with each revolution. Scientists now think that were there no moon, there would be no life on earth at all, a curious theory which has bearings on Sagan predictions of billions and billions of life forms in the universe, they may well not be many at all.
The most recent sensational spectacular scientific pontification, aside from Super Volcanoes and the Canary Islands collapsing and creating a 3,000 foot tidal wave on the east coast of north america, is of course, climate change on a global basis.
Because a healthy percentage of the politically minded population is of the anti industrial, anti growth regimen, those who believe mankind has over populated the planet and needs his nuts cut, they were happy to find, through the global climate change zealots, warm bed fellows in lobbying for restrictions on human growth and expansion.
You may be impressed with the apparent solidarity of scientists who pretend a concensus of agreement about man's influence on climate change, fine, be that way.
But you might move outside your safe zone and peruse the findings of other, non vested researchers who caution the whole thing is a hoax.
Amicus...(ahm, just off da top of me noggin)
In the long history of the species on this planet, the last 150 years, give or take, have been the most accellerated ones in terms of scientific discoveries and invention.
Utilizing the power of steam, writers at the time thought that the end all and be all of the future, others saw it as the harbinger of doom, with the factories and industry and the decimation of pastoral life.
It turned out to be neither as soon after, Electricity took center stage and that was thought to be the ulimate in human progress as the technology virtually turned night into day.
But those, by God hotdog scientists showed us how to electricute people and use electric energy to cure all illness and even control the mentally.
Then that marvel of the internal combustion engine that truly turned the world upside down and brought an end to the age of horsepower in the old sense.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch in physics and chemistry and astronomy, other, more obscure revelations were coming to light and lo and behold, mankind advanced by leaps and bounds with even more efficient methods of both production and killing each other in mass conflict.
Then some damn fool archaeologist dug up some bones and declared they were millions of years old and God suffered a near fatal stroke.
Then another by God, hotdog scientist concerned about Noah's Ark, postulated a biblical proportion flood of natural causes and climate change that might well have brought about a bottleneck in human existence through ice ages and corresponding droughts and famines and whatever, a gold mine of theoretical discoveries.
My memory does not function in perfect chronological order, so be critical if you wish, but discovery after discovery, be it eugenics or virus theory, led to panic about world wide epidemics created by the carelessness of man in the laboratory and legislation was considered to prevent all such research.
As a species, we are children playing with an erector set who are ignorant of the function of most of the pieces we have arrayed before us.
We know of plate techtonics and vulcanology, we know of asteroids and sunspots and solar radiation and once upon a time the majority of scientest swore and all agreed the Van Allen radiation belt would forever prevent man from venturing into space.
The moon used to orbit the earth a lot closer than it does now, close enough to raise tides to a thousand meters instead of a few meters with each revolution. Scientists now think that were there no moon, there would be no life on earth at all, a curious theory which has bearings on Sagan predictions of billions and billions of life forms in the universe, they may well not be many at all.
The most recent sensational spectacular scientific pontification, aside from Super Volcanoes and the Canary Islands collapsing and creating a 3,000 foot tidal wave on the east coast of north america, is of course, climate change on a global basis.
Because a healthy percentage of the politically minded population is of the anti industrial, anti growth regimen, those who believe mankind has over populated the planet and needs his nuts cut, they were happy to find, through the global climate change zealots, warm bed fellows in lobbying for restrictions on human growth and expansion.
You may be impressed with the apparent solidarity of scientists who pretend a concensus of agreement about man's influence on climate change, fine, be that way.
But you might move outside your safe zone and peruse the findings of other, non vested researchers who caution the whole thing is a hoax.
Amicus...(ahm, just off da top of me noggin)