>>> David Martorana on "The Sky is Falling" 
 DM> Looking at the quick changing between 1900 and 2000, it is likely
 DM> that jet planes and solar cars will be ancient ancient history by
 DM> 2100. Extrapolation from current technologies is a looser in long
 DM> term prognostication! It would better wage us to say  that by
 DM> 2100 (if still here as the present species?) we would be plugging
 DM> into stars for power. And yes! the rich would still have first
 DM> call on the biggest best stars!
We seem to differ.  You expect science to solve our problems instead of 
making them worse by using science with political and capitalistic 
neptitude.
 
 DM> Mess??? .......What might be called a mess could become a bonanza.
This is the attitude of a dung beetle. -)
 DM> As nature taught "life" to love oxygen 
I suppose that you're eager to learn life's lessons of the next century, a 
lesson too late for the learning.
 DM> The problem of not having enough CO2 then becomes a next challenge.
The problem is that people don't like pollution.  If more people could eat 
industrial dung we'd have no problem.  Just imagine all the pollution that 
could be recycled into polluted fecal material.
 DM> NOTE: *IF* a cosmic disaster: The human species might be required to
 DM> retire ...but there seems some even chance that another
 DM> species (equally deserving) might have a shot as big kid on the block.
'Tis a human custom, to look forward to retirement.  It's considered 
heavenly. -)
 
 DM> Japanese-Russian team working on DNA taken from frozen mastodon
 DM> sperm to be merged into elephant egg (and carried to birth by
 DM> elephant). They figure an even chance of recreating "A" mastodon
 DM> or possible interstage between it and elephant. They did not
 DM> state the technical path to revitalizing the DNA (if that is
 DM> necessary). ;;
That's sure a cold way to reproduce.  With stuff like this happening we'd 
better make sure that there are no remnants of Hilter to be found anywhere on 
this planet.  What ever international restrictions arise prohibiting cloning, 
tyrants of the future will be sure to bequeath their genes to their faithful 
followers who will plague us with their badly made reruns.  Do you think that 
DNA from Einstein's pickled brained, that he donated to science, could be 
revitalized?  So you see, cloning is scientific proof of reincarnation. -)
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