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Eloquently put, Diplo. I agree totally.

Well we have got non-stick frying pans as a result.

Mart

urban myth, sorry

3.3billion eh? How much have we spent on killing people over the last year or so? I heard somewhere that Iraq was costing a billion a day?

We need to kick that religion bollox into touch before we can even think of moving on as a species. Then, when peace reigns across the planet, we need to clean the fucker up and give nature a break. Then, when all that's sorted... we should start looking elsewhere in our solar system.

I don't think we'll even get out of our solar system because its just too damn big. Unless someone comes up with ways of entering a fourth spatial dimension and using that to 'jump' space ?

Theres knowledge and thers knowledge

Of the 2 great frontiers left to explore I'd sooner see the deep oceans explored rather than Space...it would seem to be more relevant

I don't need some expedition to Saturn to tell me that the Earth is going the Venus way,just common sense says if we keep on with out wanton use of the earths resources we'll come a cropper

For what...MONEY...which exists merely to hold back progress IMHO

If we'd only stayed in those caves we might have lasted as long as some of the indigenous tribes have...I can't even see us lasting 500years let alone tens of thousands of years as some have by living as a part of nature rather than her owner

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B....OZ

If you want to look at the creation story as a parable, we were thrown out of paradise because we tasted the fruit of the tree of knowledge---in other words, our appetite to know, and to explain, things is what makes us different from the other creatures on this planet, but is also our curse. I defines who we are individually, and as a species. The majority of people might be happy living in a valley, but there'll always be some that want to know what lies over that hill. As long as there are limits to our knowledge, we'll push for answers.

I'd agree with you that the oceans are worth investigating, but the problem is the pressures involved. That's why it's easier exploring the vacuum of space.

The curse is the Brain

The most complex entity in the universe bar none

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B....OZ

The thing is, though, without it, and our constant thirst for knowledge, we'd still be lame vegetarians being picked off at will by predators.

Like most things, the brain, the thirst for knowledge, is a double-edged sword. With it, we survive; we can use the imagination to see our way through problems. But we're also more and more divorced from our natural instincts and senses.

Is there not a theory that we actually have three brains in one---lizard (no, not the French Maid dressing one), monkey and human? Neuroses, paranoia and many other forms of mental illness could stem from the inability of these different brains to work together.

Bugger, another good story gone.

Mart

I have a Brain but don't thirst for knowledge
what am I: Lizard,Monkey or Human?

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