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You cannot go against nature
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by HappySysiphus, Unknown News
August 18, 2007
Anybody remember that song by Love and Rockets?
You cannot go against Nature
Because when you do
Go against Nature
That's a part of nature too.
I have to yawn at all the hand wrenching and gnashing
of teeth because of the way the human race is
desecrating and destroying this "Rare Jewel Of the
Universe."
I don't deny that it is beautiful. But who told you it was rare?
I remember they used to say that our sun might be the
only star with planets around it. Now they've admitted
that it is an almost inevitable consequence of stellar
formation and they have found planets around the most
unlikely of stars.
Hundreds of extrasolar planets are known to us and
more are discovered almost every day.
Because of the limited nature of our current search
methods the vast majority of exo-planets that have
been discovered are huge gas giants in close orbits
scientists call "Hot Jupiters," but that is simply
because they are the easiest to detect.
Even with our limited, first-generation detection
capabilities, exoplanets have been found that could
possibly harbor Earth-like moons in orbit around them,
and we are at the beginning of the beginning of the
beginning of this exciting Golden Age of discovery.
Still, one need not look to the stars to find
earth-like conditions perfect for familiar forms of
life. Jupiter's moon Europa has a miles thick crust of
water ice under which lies a vast liquid ocean warmed
by geothermic (Eurothermic) vents like the ones at the
bottom of earth's ocean which are now known to be the
most likely place for the beginning of Earth's own
richly diverse biosphere.
It is known that everything required by science is
there to support a staggeringly complex, light-less
diversity of marine life.
A picture is emerging of a universe teeming with life,
and with more than one hundred billion stars in our
Galaxy alone, and at least that many Galaxies beyond
our own, the idea that there aren't millions and
millions of places that would look startlingly
familiar to an earthling out there is very unlikely.
It may be that it is our destiny to expand our
territory away from this island. This seems logical
since we are the first animals these conditions have
produced that no longer need those conditions to
survive.
I for one would be greatly in support of evacuating
the human population from the Earth save a small band
of Rangers that would preserve it as a sort of
National Park of the Solar System.
But we can't deny what we are. Either we are going to
leave this place
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are the agents of Death come to destroy it.
No Indian Ghost Dance is going to turn back the clock.
Pre-history is over. History doesn't look well.
Either we take our machines out to space to harvest
the bountiful free energy and resources of our sun and
its environs, or we bring about the end of this
season in the story of the Earth and Nature starts
again.
What could be more natural than death?
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We can't deny what we are.
Either we are going to leave this place and seek our greater destiny or we are the agents of Death come to destroy it. ...
Pre-history is over. History doesn't look well.
Either we take our machines out to space to harvest the bountiful free energy and resources of our sun and its environs, or we bring about the end of this season in the story of the Earth and Nature starts again.
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