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2006-10-02 Science & Technology

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Posted by .com 2006-10-02 01:30|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So does this mean "the Plan" is NOT to build SPACESHIPS/SPACE ARKS to transport humanity into deep space > you know, to save humanity from that Big, probably GOP-Conservative Fascist Meany THE SUN, + RIGHT-LEANING ASTEROIDS-COMETS-PLANET X's, whom won't listen to Lefty intellectuals and activists as to how to run its solar = space cycles. OWG NOW, D ** IT > TREASONOUS SUNBEAMS ARE EVERYWHERE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-02 02:37|| 2006-10-02 02:37|| Front Page Top

#2 This is the James Martin who got rich peddling obvious schlock to morons.

Back in the 80's when systems theory was little understood, he churned out 2 or 3 books a year detailing a paint-by-numbers approach to software development.

He had a great run until it dawned on people his stuff doesn't work.

Posted by phil_b 2006-10-02 06:49|| 2006-10-02 06:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Global warming threatens to wreck the planet.

-Unproven that it exists beyond a statistical blip.

-Proven warming trends in the past during historical times were associated with wealth and development of arts and sciences. This squares with the word "wreck" only if you are an anticapitalist.

Water is being used unsustainably and is running out.

-Where, precisely, is it going? At least on the scale of centuries/millenia, water on the surface of earth is in a closed system. It can't run out.

Animal and plant species are being wiped out.

-Some extinctions are inevitable. That is how life changes over time. Are Bush and Halliburton responsible for the extinction of the trilobites and dinosaurs? If we save species which should have gone extinct, have we not tinkered to the overall detriment of the biosphere?

Terrorists are becoming more likely to gain access to these weapons.

-This is occuring precisely because people like this guy have turned their back on Western traditions and refuse to recognize that the solution is to project sufficient force to prevent said access.

Overall wealth should increase dramatically beyond inflation.

-And which economic system allows this to happen - collectivism, or capitalism?

Population, though, will grow to 8.9 billion, and it will not be possible for all these people to enjoy sophisticated lifestyles.

-NO economic system can GUARANTEE "sophisticated lifestyles" for everybody, but collectivist, highly regulatory ones guarantee that you create a society where the MINIMUM number of people have said lifestyles.

Few people fulfil their creative potential. The pursuit of wealth and knowledge is often conducted without reflection on what this means for the future. Science and technology are accelerating furiously, but wisdom is not, Dr Martin writes.

-This is just nuts. Never does it occur to this guy to wonder whether or not people WANT to fulfill their potential. It probably doesn't occur to him, either, that the way to encourage this isn't through the government forcing it to happen, but to set up a society where people can sink or swim, choose their vocations and avocations, and allow people the freedom to do this, without coercion to do so, so that everyone can find their own peace voluntarily.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-10-02 07:23|| 2006-10-02 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 It's no secret that the enviro-wacko's policies have done and will continue to do great harm to the 'planet', and consequently, the people.

Wrap your mind around this one for example: DDT was demagogued and then banned for no good reason. In fact the 'environmental' movement used junk science, Rachel Carson's propaganda book 'Silent Spring', and incomplete and now discredited studies to ban DDT in order to increase their power and influence. EPA administrator Ruckelshaus banned it in 1972 after ignoring his own department's studies and the decision of his own administrative law judge. He didn't even read the EPA reports on DDT.

At what price? It's estimated that Malaria, for example, affects between 300 and 500 million people per year, with a resulting death toll of approximately 2.7 million. Most of these are children. DDT may have prevented more than two thirds of these deaths. If you do the math, using a conservative estimate, the ban on DDT has cost the world TWO MILLION UNNECESSARY DEATHS per year since it was banned.

2,000,000 X 34 Years = 68,000,000 people. That's more than all the deaths in World War II. These clowns could care less, because they worship the god of mother earth, and not the God who made man in his own image.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-10-02 08:23|| 2006-10-02 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't forget how our aversion to 'nasty' predators and love for "Bambi" are causing us to drown in goose droppings. See Rantburg Article

Posted by Bobby 2006-10-02 08:41|| 2006-10-02 08:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, Daddy's path to riches and fame (he invented an enzyme or something that made DDT effective at orders of magnitude decreased usages levels) was cut off after only a year when Carson's "Silent Spring" came out. In his frustration he turned to cancer research, and discovered interferon. But he was forced into retirement before he could run the experiment series to demonstrate efficacy, so others got the prizes and magazine covers a decade later.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-02 23:35|| 2006-10-02 23:35|| Front Page Top

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