http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/16/a-gulf-coast-relief-tee/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/16/a-gulf-coast-relief-tee/#comment-60671 Elbert Basa Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:31:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9684#comment-60671 I'm so very saddened by the the oil spill. E.O. Wilson said on the "Planet Earth" DVD series from BBC that--"It would be a serious crime to drill for oil in the ocean". The fact of the matter is the risk out weigh the benefits. And even if the risk was assessed? Was there a damaged control group that came in to save the day and deal with these possible problems? MMmm, NO! I hope mother nature really gets screwed up the A-hole on this one and humans see and experience the consequences of our actions. The stone age ended not because we ran out of stones, its because we evolved more technological ways to get energy (hunting with bow and arrows; calories from food). Oil is primitive and we won't run out anytime soon, yet we never moved on technologically because of economics. Money isn't real? BP can't dish out billions and make everything ok? Its Murphy's law--What can go wrong will go wrong, it happened when we were "transporting" oil (Exxon Valdez). Now, we are looking at nuclear as a source of energy? Why, haven't we learned or seen nature at work? When has evolution used oil or radiation as a form of energy. Our ideas of energy are perverted and bare no resembles to circle of biochemistry or life. We are so smart we actually think we aren't animals. "And to the human race, remember your humanity"---Albert Einstein I’m so very saddened by the the oil spill. E.O. Wilson said on the “Planet Earth” DVD series from BBC that–”It would be a serious crime to drill for oil in the ocean”. The fact of the matter is the risk out weigh the benefits. And even if the risk was assessed? Was there a damaged control group that came in to save the day and deal with these possible problems? MMmm, NO! I hope mother nature really gets screwed up the A-hole on this one and humans see and experience the consequences of our actions. The stone age ended not because we ran out of stones, its because we evolved more technological ways to get energy (hunting with bow and arrows; calories from food). Oil is primitive and we won’t run out anytime soon, yet we never moved on technologically because of economics. Money isn’t real? BP can’t dish out billions and make everything ok? Its Murphy’s law–What can go wrong will go wrong, it happened when we were “transporting” oil (Exxon Valdez). Now, we are looking at nuclear as a source of energy? Why, haven’t we learned or seen nature at work? When has evolution used oil or radiation as a form of energy. Our ideas of energy are perverted and bare no resembles to circle of biochemistry or life. We are so smart we actually think we aren’t animals. “And to the human race, remember your humanity”—Albert Einstein

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/16/a-gulf-coast-relief-tee/#comment-60631 Guy Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:08:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9684#comment-60631 It is good that they are drawing more attention to the problem. I hope that more people start becoming passionate about science and technology and take up careers that will enable a clean energy future. It is good that they are drawing more attention to the problem. I hope that more people start becoming passionate about science and technology and take up careers that will enable a clean energy future.

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