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Post by Random Panther on Aug 18, 2012 9:14:13 GMT -5
Humanity is a biological species,living in a biological environment,because like all species,we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior,to our genetics,to our physiology,to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life,as a sacred duty,we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved,and on which we completely depend.
Edward O. Wilson
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Post by Random Panther on Aug 18, 2012 9:44:17 GMT -5
Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.
Stephen J. Gould.
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Post by Random Panther on Aug 18, 2012 10:23:54 GMT -5
I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate,maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life.
Richard Fortey
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Post by StormInateacup on Aug 18, 2012 12:07:46 GMT -5
“There will no longer be nationality, no longer fatherland, in the political sense of the words: they will mean only places of birth. Whatever a man’s race or colour, he is really a native of the universe; he has citizen’s rights everywhere.”
“To be governed is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so . . .”
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 18, 2012 19:58:06 GMT -5
"never mind that shit, here comes Mungo!"
the guy in the bar
"candygram for Mungo"
the sherriff
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 18, 2012 19:59:30 GMT -5
"freeeeze ya bloody bastads!" (northern accent)
prince wotzizname in Flash Gordon
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 18, 2012 20:00:06 GMT -5
"set phasors tae malky"
Captain MacKirk
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 18, 2012 20:01:49 GMT -5
"rrrrip tip took dirrick"
that cartoon in the 80s, the wee guy, space age cartoon thing
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Post by StormInateacup on Aug 18, 2012 22:27:52 GMT -5
"rrrrip tip took dirrick" That cartoon in the 80s, the wee guy, space age cartoon thing Battle of the Planets?
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 19, 2012 16:38:32 GMT -5
"rrrrip tip took dirrick" That cartoon in the 80s, the wee guy, space age cartoon thing Battle of the Planets? BINGO!!!
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Post by StormInateacup on Aug 19, 2012 21:08:58 GMT -5
Battle of the Planets? BINGO!!! I'm simultaneously impressed with myself and terrified at the realisation that I am beginning to understand precisely what you mean a lot of the time.
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 20, 2012 8:41:02 GMT -5
I'm simultaneously impressed with myself and terrified at the realisation that I am beginning to understand precisely what you mean a lot of the time. rrrip bip bop boop, bididp!
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 20, 2012 8:41:49 GMT -5
"most people are other people" Oscar Wilde
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 20, 2012 9:17:16 GMT -5
"humanity is not going to wait for permission to survive" some guy on Youtube
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Aug 20, 2012 9:18:07 GMT -5
"debts that can't be paid, won't be paid" Prof Michael Hudson
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