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12-16-18, 05:19 PM | #1 |
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A wild theory on this climate change thing.
This is a theory which I can't prove, so it stay as a theory
Many years ago I read in a science article, that there are people who believe our earth is one big living thinking organisme. If I remember correctly they call it Gaia. If I'm not wrong the fever in a human body indicate there's a fight against a virus or a bacteria. I can't remember if the fever is an indication that there is a fight or if it's the body who is raising the temperature to fight the virus or the bacteria. Now to this way-out theory. What if our earth is one big living and a thinking organisme And what if it is earth itself who are raising the temperature in the preparation to fight the virus or bacteria-which means us the human As mentioned at start I can't prove this so it's nothing more than a theory. Markus |
12-16-18, 05:26 PM | #2 |
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Yes, earth has a parasite called humans.
Good news: It will get over it.
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12-16-18, 05:49 PM | #3 |
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Not if we blow it up first!
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12-16-18, 06:03 PM | #4 |
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12-16-18, 06:40 PM | #5 |
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Well our earth is a large living organism in the same way that a coral reef is considered a large living organism. I think it would be more accurate to consider the earth to be a large collection of living organisms all supporting/fighting each other.
As to whether the earth is a thinking organism, that might be difficult to prove. I have not seen any evidence of any consciousness
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12-16-18, 07:06 PM | #6 |
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I think August is right.
The path we are on-we are slowly on our way to blow it up. Markus |
12-16-18, 07:30 PM | #7 |
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Mapuc refers to James Lovelock, and the so-called Gaia-hypothesis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock A stupid he is not. I read one of his books back then, "Gaia - The practical science of planetary medicine" (German: Die Erde ist ein Lebewesen. Anatomie und Physiologie des Organismus Erde). If taking it literally, it did not really convince me, sounded even a bit infantile like a biology explanation book for grammar school. The Gaia model as a supra-levelled planetary organism is metaphorically more useful, in my opinion, understood as an analogy it then is capable to illustrate quite some critical links and symptoms of global warming. Like the man himself, this way the idea is not stupid either. Taking it literally, only will foster sentimentalism and esoteric cultism, and in the end people try saving the polar ice by sitting down after drinking a blessed tea mixture, and starting to collectively hum. Man, I shudder myself in disgust when seeing such sit-ins. Humming to save the earth by good vibes, becasue atoms swing and the cosmus is music. Hummmmmm. As Einstein once should have said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Well, I certainly wpould insist that this quote must be used in some certain contexts, but then it is useful as well. He hardly wanted to say that people should give up learning and scientifically researching.
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12-17-18, 09:34 AM | #8 | |
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12-17-18, 10:17 AM | #9 |
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OK we Nuke the planet and kill all life on it, problem sorted.
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12-19-18, 08:33 AM | #10 |
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^ we cannot blow up the earth as a planet yet. We can make the surface uninhabitable and kill every living thing on it, but we cannot destroy the planet Earth itself. Yet.
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12-19-18, 06:23 PM | #11 | |
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