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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: BenjBenj Date: Sep 10, 2008 09:51
On Sep 10, 8:40Â am, John J wrote:
> I was a kid when my eldest uncle, a PhD in nuclear physics, told me that
> people worried that the H-Bomb would set the atmosphere on fire. But
> that was a no-brainer.
No Brainer? Right. Better to destroy the whole Earth than to give up
one tiny percentage of the political power that an H bomb represents!
I'm sleeping sound tonight comforted by thoughts of the guys who think
like this being in charge of the world!
> Today have no experimental evidence of black
> holes. 'bout time they made one, and I would bet a pint of Guinness that
> they will claim to have done so, then redefine a black hole to suit what
> they made. And, IMHO, a pint of Guinness at the end of the world is not
> a bad way to go. What if it were Budweiser?
Right. No problem to "stop" a small back hole if one gets made. Just
stuff a nearby planet down it until it "chokes" on it! Lessee where is
one we can use? Oh yeah, we are living on it!
The problem with these questions is that nobody balances the options:
What happens if we don't do this vs what happens if we do this and
things go wrong. If the "go wrong" scenario involves the destruction
of all life in this corner of the galaxy, it may be time to reconsider
options. The argument that every time in the past when I spun the
cylinder and put the gun to my head and pulled the trigger nothing bad
happened so I have nothing to fear from doing it again, does sort of
have it's limitations.
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