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yes, by all means, please do so
The New York Times had a story called “Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012 “ which at the time of the writing of this blog can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/science/17essay.html
In it, it says that both CERN and NASA stte that Doomsday will NOT happen in 2012. This, of course, brings out the cynic in me and so now I KNOW that’s when it is going to end.
Beyond that, however, I read where people like David Morrison, an astronomer at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., get emails (quoting the article)
“Dr. Morrison said he had been getting about 20 letters and e-mail messages a day from people as far away as India scared out of their wits. In an e-mail message, he enclosed a sample that included one from a woman wondering if she should kill herself, her daughter and her unborn baby. Another came from a person pondering whether to put her dog to sleep to avoid suffering in 2012. “
Okay, so, how SHOULD Dr. Morrison respond? Well, I don’t know HIS circumstance, so Iwill respond for me. If I got such a letter, I would at least WANT to reply (I wouldn’t for fear of being sued - I am SUCH a coward), “Yes, by all means, please do so.”
I see this as the historically accurate and correct answer. Life on this planet has evolved, changed, and adapted in response to the environment. If you watch the lions on the Discovery channel, they eat the young, the old and the ill. If you watch the fish eating the octipi, you see they eat the little ones, the weak ones, the diseased ones. The healthy, lucky, strong ones survive.
If we change the scenario around it gets quit simple…
A weak whale writes a letter to a strong giant squid, “Dear strong giant squid, when the water gets dark, my friends and I get eatten. Should I just go ahead and kill myself, my little whale-kins, and my unborn whale-baby? Also, while I’m at it, shouldn’t I just go ahead and kill all my close friends and family - after all they are going to die anyway once it gets dark.”
The strong giant squid replies, “Dear weak whale, by all means, please do. In fact, I would love to be there to help. Where do you live?”
I keep hearing people say that humans are at the top of the food chain. I think they have it wrong. There is not a food chain. There is a food circle. Things like H1N1 show us just how vulnerable to the little things. I am quite sure somewhere there is something that eats things like H1N1. Something then eats that. Something then eats that and eventually the weak whale eats something only to be treated to the strong giant squid treatment. You gotta know that the lions in Africa are looking at the little africans and thinking - you know, they don’t taste very good, but those humans are a lot easier to kill than hyenas, maybe I should alter my tastes some. Plus, there are LOTS of them - I would never have to go hungry again!”
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