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Planes Without Pilots
    I am a big fan of the automation that technologies like UAVs present. With unmanned aircraft, or vehicles in general for that matter, we can shed unwanted and unnecessary tasks to technology, leaving us to do things that we really want to do. How cool is that?
More ‘Yeah What He Said’
    The Blackberry is an evil device and should be discarded at the most convenient opportunity, because it represents an American penchant for working too much for no reason. The moral of the story: stop working so hard to get ‘ahead’ while leaving everything that is important in life behind… Let’s chase our dreams, live a little, and face reality head on.
Death to Humans!
    The radical ideology of hardcore scientific humanism just marches on. In this case, Dr Eric Pianka of the University of Texas claims that human ‘population explosion’ will eventually lead to the widespread natural extinction of humans due to a global pandemic of epic proportions, and that such a pandemic is a natural response to ‘save the planet’ from the ‘damage’ caused by humans.
    The problem with Dr Pianka’s theory is that its premises are based on unproven theories as well. Unfortunately, there is no real, provable evidence of a negative human population explosion nor of the existence of a pandemic virus strong enough to affect the global population. Further, it assumes a level of understanding of the natural world that just does not exist.
    It seems odd to me that a scientist who is human would argue for a theory that advocates the elimination of his own species. It seems that, if such a threat existed, such a person would be working toward protecting his species against such a threat, rather than passively suggesting we should all die to ‘save the planet’, but such is the nature of scientific humanism and its fatalistic reliance on flawed human understanding.
DLH
KMileen wrote,
re: “Death to humans” - so how does that match up with the below “normal” birthrate in so many countries around the globe? I thought I read that some countries (Japan, maybe?) were paying couples to have MORE children.
Whatever happened to true science?
Link | April 5th, 2006 at 2001
dlhitzeman wrote,
There is no correlation because its bad science. While the world population is still growing, it is at a rate far less than the scientists predicted just ten years ago.
The truth is that this is science of wanting something to be true, so any outlandish comments that support such a premise are ok, under those circumstances.
DLH
Link | April 5th, 2006 at 2015