ZOMG ‘BLOG

Debris. Waste. Junk. Garbage. We cast it away as useless, but the truth is it is the stuff of LIFE. Organic wastes provide food and habitats for all sorts of tiny creatures. Radioactive wastes help speed evolution (defective mutants are a natural part of evolution, FYI). Even things like shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea, quickly become teeming habitats for life even thought they are mostly just lifeless piles of wood and metal.

Out of all of the planets in the solar system, Earth, this planet, has the most garbage and junk and goo. We also have the most life. This is no coincidence. Now, I know life creates garbage, and that is one explanation for this corellation, but even before there was life on earth there was garbage. Lots of lava and space rock debris and space dust. This finally settled down into what could be described as a gas-covered soggy ball of dirt, and then there was life. It’s a cycle. Life creates garbage creates more life. Well that is simplifying things (energy is important too) but you get the idea.

Now life is good and all, but the kind of life that is in some of our garbage is just not cool for human life to co-habitate with at the time. Why not send that garbage to Mars? Yeah, just rocket our trash into Mars. After a decade or so of blasting Mars with trash rockets we could have a nice habitat for … “something”. Then we send some “seed life” and wait another decade and see what grows! This simple project would both solve our waste disposal problems and be an amazing experiment.

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Scientists continue to work on mapping the neural pathways of the human brain. It is only a matter of time — around maybe 50–150 years — before we know the truth. Are we mere robots: mechanically more complex but fundamentally no different from a rock or a lever, or are we special beings with an intangible quality that takes us beyond being mere machines?

If we learn we are machines, what next? Should we move into a virtual reality of our own devising? Create new humans from scratch to prove we can? Drop all codes of ethics and morality on the pretense that we are all mere mechanisms and our actions are not really our own decide even though it may seem that way?

Or, on the other hand if we find out we are special, will that be justification enough for decades of robot slave labor? I mean they are just machines, right? They don’t have the secret aura or whatever.

But either way, the true important thing is that we must be prepared to use our new knowledge of the human brain to enable everyone to ‘blog by thinking. Documenting our experiences at this time will be very useful for future more enlightened generations (who will know the secret reason of why it actually doesn’t matter if we are mechanical or not.). They will be able to look back at us and laugh and laugh at how silly the old days were. But really they might need stories from the past to help them repair time rifts or something. Yet another possible reason that ‘blogging is important.

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