Bureaucracy Wednesday, Jun 18 2008

Something that is really nice is to get every question on a test correct. Something that is really upsetting is to have your grade reduced from 100 to 0 due to a bureaucratic technicality. It’s easy to see why today’s youth are so disaffected with things like that going on.

Something that is scary is that it is quite possible that the only careers which will remain in the future are entertainer and bureaucrat/politician. I don’t think that I’ll live long enough to see that but I feel sorry for you kids out there.

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Just link your pinkies Saturday, Apr 19 2008

After a moments reflection I thought that today I would share what I feel to be the biggest problems facing the world today.

1. Meteors. The most likely thing that I’m aware of which could actually destroy the planet earth would be some sort of meteor. What the source of the meteor would be is open to speculation, as is how large it would have to be, and how fast it would need to be going. Actually I’m pretty sure that other people have made such calculations already but I’m not aware of the parameters personally. I can say that it would take something pretty fantastic to actually smash our planet but if it gets hit by something big and hard enough it could get thrown out of orbit and then collide with something else. And of course though I say most likely the chances have still got to be pretty low of a meteor hitting earth and destroying it. It’s more likely that earth would get caught up in some sort of chain reaction which would most likely be started by something hitting something else.
2. The earth itself. There are quite a few different materials on earth and unless I missed something a clear understanding is yet to be gained of all materials and their interactions in all natural circumstances on the planet. In other words for all we know the planet might essentially be a time bomb. It probably isn’t, but you would notice that I’m not giving the astronomically low percentage probabilities for these things.
3. People. I personally think that if humans manage to survive everything long enough to keep advancing technology, and especially to devise means of surviving in space, then it should eventually be possible for them to destroy the world. And we all know how humans are about possibilities. Fortunately for the earth people are much more likely to destroy themselves first.
4. Some other sentient life form. Whether it be a terrestrial or extra-terrestrial life form does not matter. You would imagine that extra-terrestrials would be more likely to have an incentive to destroy the earth than beings that were formed on it but who knows. Personally I think it’s more likely that there could be a race that’s superior to humans living inside of the earth rather than in the ocean as far as that goes. Actually there are all kinds of races superior to humans in all kinds of ways it’s just that somehow we’re apparently on top because of our aberrant mental processes (conscious thought) which have allowed us to devise numerous ways to kill and destroy and proliferate. I mean seriously, even if everything were to go infertile for some reason we could just make modified clones and keep going forward. eh hem

Well that’s what I think about that. It might not be what you were expecting but it’s easier for me to speculate on something like that than on what the greatest geo-socio-politico issues that human society faces might be.

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