freethefly 6 #1 April 7, 2006 This is really just a continuation of the population control thread posted by akarunway concerning Prof. Eric Pianka. The aricle was interesting enough to see what he really has to say. The first article on his web page should make you think for awhile. Nowhere however does he indicate that viruses should be released to control the population. He does, however, point out that unless we (humans) take drastic measures in the way we conduct ourselves that virus will do it for us to balance life here on earth. http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/eric.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man and His Gods Homer Smith (1952) and Balfour "Man did not have forever to harness the forces of the sun and stars. The Sun was an elderly light, long past the turbulent heat of youth, and would some day join the senile class of once-luminiferous bodies. In some incredibly remote time a chance collision might blow it up again into incandescent gas and start a new local cosmic cycle, but of man there would be no trace. In Balfours's terms, he 'will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will know itself no longer. 'Imperishable monuments' and 'immortal deeds,' death itself, and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. Nor will anything that IS be better or be worse for all that labour, genius, devotion and suffering of man have striven through countless generations to effect.""...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
