Earth Hour

March 29, 2008

Peter Watts tells it like it is in Earth Hour - Because the World Isn’t Worth a Whole Day. For it was said, we head for hell and we do it well.

Posted by Vladimir Gritsenko Filed in General

2 Responses to “Earth Hour”

  1. Johnny G Says:
    March 31, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    I do hope he is joking about all the “bringing in the shit into their hallways”. In the 1960s we had the Beatles and these days people are obsessed with the Global Warming instead. Give me a break.

    We need to preserve our moral integrity and God will take care of everything.

  2. Vladimir Gritsenko Says:
    April 4, 2008 at 11:26 am

    In Sagan’s Contact, Ellie (the main character) confronts Joss Palmer (a prominent American televangelist) on the old science vs. religion issue, calling him out to test his faith. The test is simple: release a heavy bob of a pendulum and see if it hits you. Theory and observation tell us that the bob will return to the same position, unless it gains or loses lots of energy (normally it loses energy because of air friction, but it’s negligible for the proposed experiment). So, Ellie should release the pendulum and stand there, and if it hits her obviously God intervened to teach us all a lesson. Joss should release the pendulum and take a step closer, and if it doesn’t kill him we also know that God intervened. Eventually Joss agreed, but Sagan didn’t let him finish the experiment, so he lived.

    Now, I have no problem with the faithful testing their faith, as long as they don’t do it on the backs of humanity. Go swing some other bob, please. I’m sure one can be constructed. Do you want to conduct that experiment?

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