[Alumni-chat] What will the BOT do?

[Jon Estes]

On 9/5/07, Mark Pomerantz <marklp2 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>  Its possible that a more humanistic regime will arise here in our,
> your lifetimes. Sometimes the striving is as important as the result.
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I'd obey a group of people holding sticks with colorful pipecleaners affixed
to them if they could and would do something as simple as make the rape of
the planet stop.

Really - I have reached a similar conclusion. It's either lights out, or
not. Globe is too small, I can barely breathe in here. R&D to get us off
Terra and on to destroy untold numbers of blingingly pristine M-Class
planets is too slow. The math won't work out nicely anymore, I'm out of
scratch paper anyway. So something really big will have to give. I'm not
sure a humanistic regime will fit the bill, even - but yes, in the end if
something does not happen fairly soon.. it will just be in the local
galactic obits...  the tragedy of another civilization failing to pass the
atomic threshold without suddenly gorging themselves with all terrestrial
resources, and being drunk with the wine of such fornication -
unceremoniously drowning in vomit while spontaneously combusting, very
concurrently. Another insignificant failure to generate a meaningful epitaph
in a long, redundant string of karaoke bar taps, one of many doomed
campaigns peppering the acne-laden march of discrete material. Sort of puts
a kink in your step when you try to strive, diffusing spunk even among those
who thrive on trying for tryings sake alone. But your point is well taken
nonetheless.