tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5489387778667207505.post6926402027497946783..comments2023-08-26T10:28:00.684-05:00Comments on Ole Bald Angus the Monk: Ghost of Sagan Speaks, Predicts FutureOle Bald Angus the Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416075501254311516noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5489387778667207505.post-28998919008039683942007-12-22T14:43:00.000-06:002007-12-22T14:43:00.000-06:00Yah I think I'd eat the blue planets slowly so the...Yah I think I'd eat the blue planets slowly so the good stuff in the middle of the Oreo Cookie had time to regenerate.<BR/><BR/>'Cause if you eat up all the Good Stuff right away then yer just left with a couple of super crappy tasting Oreo Crackers that you need to wash out of your mouth with a gallon of milk or something heh.<BR/><BR/>"Oh man its another Cracker Planet, somebody already licked up all the good stuff and left us the rinds."Ole Bald Angus the Monkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03416075501254311516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5489387778667207505.post-70706132691777703632007-12-22T03:55:00.000-06:002007-12-22T03:55:00.000-06:00His objection to treating the planet as a disposab...His objection to treating the planet as a disposable one is pure, gushy, sentimentality.<BR/><BR/>Terra-forming worlds to inhabit is likewise not a good idea.<BR/><BR/>As he said, there are billions and billions of billions and billions of worlds.<BR/><BR/>All of them face the same risk as the Earth does of being obliterated by cosmic forces at pretty much any time (asteroid impact, gamma radiation burst, whatever).<BR/><BR/>So why invest anything in making one rock a nice place to live, when there's no guarantee it'll remain a nice place to live, UNLESS finding a rock which is already a nice place to live (and perhaps teaching the locals how great it is to work for us) is more expensive than terraforming.<BR/><BR/>But there I agree with him again: what are the odds that our home planet is so very special?<BR/><BR/>And from that: If it's nothing special, why <EM>not</EM> use the Earth as a disposable planet?<BR/><BR/>Ok, maybe we shouldn't do that <EM>yet</EM>, since we're stuck here... but if we could move-on to go Galactus on some other planet afterward?<BR/><BR/>Why not?<BR/><BR/>There's no reason not to, there. The old guy just used to get all emotional about <EM>things</EM> from time to time.<BR/><BR/>Ultimately, it might even be kind of a dumb idea to live on planets at all, too.Jeff Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04619334976438544593noreply@blogger.com