Re: Catchup voting results

Glen (ME) wrote about "Earth" being a kind of sentient being:

>>Well, not exactly because humanity, as a sentient being, lives on >> a
>>ball called Earth but is not bound by it.

John in desperate backlash :P wrote:

>I would argue that at the moment we are bound to it. Try existing
>without taking another lung full of air? It was produced for you by
>photosynthesising trees. We are a part of a biosphere and we cannot
>exist independently of it.

We were once bound by the sea but now we have evolved past it by bringing a
piece of it with us. Next time, start listening to your moist bowels and
tell me when you hear the ocean. Eating a couple of burritos will help in
the task. Anyways, point is, we are already escaping the biosphere with Mir
and the like. We can classify ourselves already as amphibian but our next
big "evolution" is to bring a piece of Earth with us to the outer regions of
space.

By the way, if you're under house arrest, does the house suddenly come
alive?

>This won't happen for another 5 billion years. Since the average
>mammal species only survives about 2 million years, any species which
>leaves Earth (carrying the biosphere with it) will have long since
>ceased to be human.

Hell, just a thousand years and no one will know what human ever was after
the geneticists have their fun. We can now determine our own evolution.
Other mammals can't. We'll be around for another billion years yet in some
form or another - diversity is the key.


-gLeN

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