The world as we know it... - Page 2

jard · #16 09-27-2002, 05:10 PM

I'm worried about our future. I look at it this way history always repeats itself and I dont want to be stuck in the middle of another depression or to see our country go down the tubes like other super power nations before use (ie. Rome or more recently U.S.S.R).

Saddam is a tyrant like Castro and many others. I've seen what people will do to get away from an opressive goverment. I was on a Naval ship outside Cuba when the Cubans began leaving in '94' and those people were desprate to get out of there they would risk death at sea for the chance at a life someplace else. I pulled a 9 year old boy who left on his own because he had no real family to take care of him, when we found him he was in a innertube for a large truck tire with a pair of flippers on his feet with no food or water and no land in sight. We pulled 804 refugees out of the water in 72 hours.

I think its time to pool our resources to explore our solar system. That way if our planet becomes uninhabitable because we destroy it or some natural event occur's we as a race will continue. And a little extra breathing room never hurts.

Just my 2cp

Skullphoenix01 · #17 09-30-2002, 08:53 PM

Ill give you one word for whats needed in this world.

Solidarity

a_Guest03 · #18 10-02-2002, 04:46 AM

You wanna know the truth about what I worry about? I worry that nobody will take the time to slow down and understand the nature of man. I worry that we won't let dead people die to make room for new people or new animal life. Why can't we just stop using antibiotics until there's an outbreak of something? We waste so much tactical safety for the human race on saving people when they DON'T NEED SAVED. Let's let people die once in a damn while... Let population grow at its healthy ORIGINAL rate, and stop mooking around with creating more people. What happened to natural selection, and why don't we just let it go again? I really don't think it would be THAT BAD if we all got in a war. Either you're dead or you're not. I have to agree that I don't want to die as much as the next guy, but there has to be a cutoff, a final day for us all. We used to live 30 years if we were lucky. What happened!? My great grandma died at 98! Life has a cycle, and we should just do our best to live our lives close to that cycle. Otherwise, we become dependent on our current safety nets, and TONS of us will die all at once when it doesn't work anymore.

That's why I don't go to the doctor unless I need help getting to the doctor. I want my kids to have pissed off immune systems. I kicked off life with a hernia and scarlet fever. If I can live through that, forget doctors until my teeth hurt. If nobody else wants to let normal diseases spread normally, then I guess I'll let my DNA adapt one way and let everyone else pick their own way. But defensive DNA and antibiotics do a hell of a lot more than weak DNA and antibiotics.

Good luck to the world; I won't be here at the end.

Trumpcard · #19 10-02-2002, 06:33 AM

Are you in the church of Christian Science?

Baltar · #20 10-02-2002, 09:30 AM

A_guest, I see where your saying, but we cant let murderers go arround rampaging. It will take millions of years for the human race to adapt to a desease. And in some cases we can't adapt. Take AIDS for example. It has the capability of wiping out the entire race. We have reached our current state of technology by keeping a healthy (or unhealthy) balance of nature management. If we can stay along the middle ground we can prolong the human race to a longer point. We can only rely on evolution to a point, because in the end we will all die eventually. Evolution for the most part accelarates the process.

a_Guest03 · #21 10-04-2002, 03:08 AM

These diseases DO NOT have the ability to wipe out the entire human race. AIDS has such a sporadic incubation period that those who have long periods will outlive the rest. Smallpox didn't kill everyone. The bubonic plague didn't kill everyone. Even NUKES won't kill EVERYONE. It takes a hell of a lot to beat down the human race. We'll probably take a big hit and won't have Windows 98 anymore, but we'll still be moving along until the worldwide climate is no longer able to support us.

If these diseases that are around now had the ability to wipe us out, we'd see percentages like 68% of a generation killed by smallpox, and the death numbers would be higher than the birth rates... I haven't serious death rates happen for quite some time, at least not globally. And the strong death rates we've seen have rarely lasted an entire century, aside maybe from smallpox and the bubonic plague, to which people a) were not exposed to in large parts of the world due to the high death rate or b) were partially immune. Disease requires an incubation period to continue to spread unless it feeds on something other than people. Its continued growth requires that animals or people or plants still exist nearby. A disease doesn't usually kill off entire species without help.