Re: Yet Another Roswell Thread

On 13 Jul, 19:29, Eric Chomko <pne.cho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The one weapon which I think is relevant in the war on terror is in
fact Google. Everyone I know scoffs at this but I feel it is cerainly
the case. You see we will eventally be watching the television that
Google finds for us. Traditional broadcast is on its way out. One can
for a start have good webpages and good arguments on Islamic theology.

On this topic I particularly cringe when they scoff. I wonder
sometimes whether the CIA has secret plans to bring Google into their
orbit. I think it would probably be difficult to do.

What makes you think that the CIA can't use things that are overt for
their covert activities? Hell, think of the weather, is it secret?

There is one difficulty. If it is overt people can see what you are
doing and oppose you.

I now return to Mars. I sometimes wonder whether the desert has played
its part in creating Wahhabism. You have a caravan crossing slowly and
harsh memes. BTW - It is not just Dawkins that talks about memes. All
sociobiologists talk about memes, Dawkins talks about religion being a
virus which others tend not to. Martian memes are likely to have the
hashness of Mars about them. Mars is a caravan, it is not Corduba,
Damascus or Baghdad (before recent events). Do you see where I am
coming from?

No

The point is that in a space colony is going to consist of a small
group of people. They are going to be very much like minded
individuals. If they were not they would fall out and numbers of them
would start returning to Earth. They are also likely to be selected
individials with the ability to groupthink being an important
criterion.

It could well be that the Internet will (eventually) bring about a
super city, and lead to greater understanding.

I can say one thing, at a scientific conference Rand Simberg and Fred
McCall would be asked to apologise or be chucked out. You rubbish
theories, you don't rubbish individuals particularly when they are
right on the technical points involved.

The problem with Simberg and McCall is that they both have large egos
and want to be right rather than actually create, discover, or prove
something. Wanting to be right is a path to laziness whereas creating,
discovering, or proving something actually takes hard work.

Indeed yes.

- Ian Parker

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