tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post3888077384596109208..comments2024-03-28T00:01:34.598-07:00Comments on The Galloping Beaver: Future PlanningDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-51322597289896879642015-06-26T11:08:47.037-07:002015-06-26T11:08:47.037-07:00Because we're wired to make more of us. This ...Because we're wired to make more of us. This is not just our nature as humans in specific. Every evolved creature is, whether human, cockroach, or orchid. Let's not forget that evolution works two ways: By change, yes, but also by inheritance and the spread of inherited traits. Every living thing comes from an ancient heritage of critters that passed on their traits to their Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-45430595966816588652015-06-25T14:43:32.182-07:002015-06-25T14:43:32.182-07:00What if we came to accept that mankind does not de...What if we came to accept that mankind does not define Earth's terrestrial life? Why do we think we need to establish human life on Mars?<br /><br />If there is indeed another mass extinction we probably won't make it. We were lucky at times to survive far lesser challenges during the gentle Holocene epoch of the past 10,000 years.<br /><br />As with all the previous mass extinction The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-32192868118226940222015-06-10T09:19:17.591-07:002015-06-10T09:19:17.591-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-410806191151560162015-06-09T13:58:32.561-07:002015-06-09T13:58:32.561-07:00As much as I, too, see a rather bleak destiny for ...As much as I, too, see a rather bleak destiny for our civilization and species unless we can abandon capitalism, our slavish dependence on fossil fuels and the illusion that only renewables such as wind and solar can rescue us, as well as the poisonous bill of goods that the political/military/industrial complex keeps selling to our leaders, media, thank tanks, academia, et al, that what we have ThinkingManNeilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10233707013338083180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-63424820963040633512015-06-08T13:42:14.804-07:002015-06-08T13:42:14.804-07:00Yeah, I do. From all cultures. Including photograp...Yeah, I do. From all cultures. Including photography. <br /><br />I'd exclude all religious texts and iconography. For which I know I'll go to hell and all that blather...all religions can fuck off.<br /><br />I'd include a lot of ancient philosophy, less modern philosophy. <br /><br />And I'd include a narrative of how and why we auto-exterminated. As a warning. <br /><br />Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-66636245350999661582015-06-08T13:00:30.066-07:002015-06-08T13:00:30.066-07:00You don't think all the classic literature, mu...You don't think all the classic literature, music, poetry, and art are worth preserving for the times?<br /><br />Just because the world has degenerated culturally, morally, and intellectually doesn't mean there never was anything of merit ever accomplished during mankind's reign on earth.<br />It only means humankind has collectively lost the ability to appreciate the finer things Tal Hartsfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-73661358947856861332015-06-06T11:04:54.744-07:002015-06-06T11:04:54.744-07:00Yup. Nice headstone. I guess the piss stains have ...Yup. Nice headstone. I guess the piss stains have worn off. <br />Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-42690151390102390612015-06-06T07:41:54.262-07:002015-06-06T07:41:54.262-07:00" It's an interesting question.'
My ..." It's an interesting question.'<br /><br />My thoughts from a couple years back https://ffibnamol.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/the-legacy/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-51230705856069000882015-06-05T13:56:46.217-07:002015-06-05T13:56:46.217-07:00So you're assuming electricity, some kind of i...So you're assuming electricity, some kind of internet, photocopiers, phones, ham radio etc etc. Not likely. Has anyone begun copying now? Storing where? <br /><br />Where are these networks of organic producers located? Mostly in India? Warmer climates, as in nearer the equator? What will they be able to grow? Is anyone working on high temperature hybrids for them? Will they have a fresh Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-34504968412166543472015-06-05T13:32:03.790-07:002015-06-05T13:32:03.790-07:00A civilization? Maybe, maybe not. Depends. It m...A civilization? Maybe, maybe not. Depends. It might be quite a few civilizations. There were civilizations before the 20th century, you know. For that matter, a crash in numbers doesn't even imply a crash in technology.<br /><br />But what it <b>wouldn't</b> be is a "future species", which is what you opened the post with.<br /><br />Crisis is not eternal. If there's aPurple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-68307658312431259082015-06-05T12:11:00.361-07:002015-06-05T12:11:00.361-07:00And you'll still call that civilization will y...And you'll still call that civilization will you?<br /><br />I would really like someone to tell me *where* humanity will survive, what the shelter will be, what the food stocks will be and so on. <br /><br />Every time I think about how it might happen I come up with endless war, pestilence and famine. <br /><br />Where are the groups of people who are preparing to survive? How are they Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-83081876824944535482015-06-05T11:43:07.301-07:002015-06-05T11:43:07.301-07:00Global warming and various other human-caused envi...Global warming and various other human-caused environmental catastrophes are likely to get very bad. But we're not going to go extinct from it. I've yet to see anyone propose a plausible mechanism for that happening . . . well, other than global thermonuclear war. That could happen, but it quite likely won't.<br /><br />People are very adaptable, very good at altering their Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.com