Will predicting the weather in 2036 cause the weather in 2036 to change? Not from a Heisenberg/limits of observation way, but from a Toynbee Convector way. Will the prediction suggest an outcome that we don't like, and push us to make changes?
But of course, we have existing reliable predictions that suggest long-term warming, and we're just squabbling over their accuracy. Maybe instead of looking at this rationally, we should just dress the damn thing up as an oracle and ask it about the meaning of life.
Some days, I have panic attacks while reading/. for no good reason. Wii controler = scary. Not so much. Up the Xanax.
Other days, there is a very good reason. Drifting off into space with only hope of 1) re-entry or 2) sustaining small colonies of warring microbes until your eventual death in the VACUUM OF NOTHING would constitute such a reason.
You are absolutely correct. Professor Hawking asked about the human race, not modernized society. We are very selfish to confuse the two.
On the advice of Mesrrs. Lennon and McCartney, I don't go around quoting Chairman Mao. However, his observation about the future of the human race is pertinent:
The sun will keep shining
Trees will keep growing
And women will keep having children.
I refer to Oliver Wendell Jones' plan to circle the Earth with a net of dollar bills. Not only would this prevent the imminent attack by a nuclear capable third-world nation, but would also stop some of the global warming problems.
Similarly, his electro photo-pigmentizer would end racism and skin cancer.
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Will predicting the weather in 2036 cause the weather in 2036 to change? Not from a Heisenberg/limits of observation way, but from a Toynbee Convector way. Will the prediction suggest an outcome that we don't like, and push us to make changes?
But of course, we have existing reliable predictions that suggest long-term warming, and we're just squabbling over their accuracy. Maybe instead of looking at this rationally, we should just dress the damn thing up as an oracle and ask it about the meaning of life.
Some days, I have panic attacks while reading /. for no good reason. Wii controler = scary. Not so much. Up the Xanax.
Other days, there is a very good reason. Drifting off into space with only hope of 1) re-entry or 2) sustaining small colonies of warring microbes until your eventual death in the VACUUM OF NOTHING would constitute such a reason.
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You are absolutely correct. Professor Hawking asked about the human race, not modernized society. We are very selfish to confuse the two.
On the advice of Mesrrs. Lennon and McCartney, I don't go around quoting Chairman Mao. However, his observation about the future of the human race is pertinent:
The sun will keep shining
Trees will keep growing
And women will keep having children.
I refer to Oliver Wendell Jones' plan to circle the Earth with a net of dollar bills. Not only would this prevent the imminent attack by a nuclear capable third-world nation, but would also stop some of the global warming problems.
Similarly, his electro photo-pigmentizer would end racism and skin cancer.