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Dec. 31st, 2004
Hey everybody, meet pokemongirl2523, writer of a story 'titled' the story of DOOM ("Title has nothing to do with the story. I couldn't think of one, so that ended up being the title.") The rest of the summary is It's about a girl and her Vulpix, when girls were not allowed to have pokemon, let alone battle them. Folow their adventures inside!.
I reviewed, and today there's a response in the second chapter. For some reason, I have a hard time taking it seriously. Something about it just smacks of troll.
( Check it out )
I reviewed, and today there's a response in the second chapter. For some reason, I have a hard time taking it seriously. Something about it just smacks of troll.
( Check it out )
New Year's Eve
Dec. 31st, 2004 10:32 pmSince it's New Year's, I feel I should make a last post of the year.
So everyone:
Some good things. Science is marching happily onward - it's absolutely amazing at times. Did you know they're making a sort of handheld DNA scanner that can identify any animal's species based on a single gene? Yep, like Star Trek. It's far from complete right now, but it's already done some cool stuff - like shown that a species of butterfly is actually at least ten different mimicking species. Cloning is growing by leaps and bounds. Give it a few years and, government policies or no, they're going to have it down. I hope to get my cat cloned in a few years. We're able to identify defective genes and even change them, and we can actually engineer mosquitos to vaccinate people for diseases. On the hardware front, they're working on a completely new kind of computer, nanotubes that would be capable of creating a building that almost has 'nerves', and some incredibly hard and resilient metals (they've made a form of copper several times harder than normal steel. This sort of metal can be cast in molds like plastic, and doesn't warp the way metal does normally.) We've got hybrid and electric cars pretty much down, and we've found alternative sources of fuel - such as cars that can run solely on the waste grease of restaurants. The earth's population growth is slowing down and we're learning better ways of managing it all.
Some bad things. The ocean's about to collapse, we're using four barrels of oil for every one we find, and we passed the earth's carrying capacity about a mile back. The American government favors subsidizing the larger SUVs over hybrid or electric cars and spits in the face of alternative fuels. Most of the animals on the planet are going extinct. The polar ice caps are melting. Zooplankton is dying. New evidence shows that government regulations for pollutants aren't accurate and that there are no safe levels for many of these things. Topsoil is washing into the sea. The coral reefs are almost dead, but because that's not happening fast enough, companies are currently selling ground-up coral as a calcium supplement. Did I mention the ocean's about to collapse? Because it is, and what do you think is currently feeding the world's population? We're currently fishing at levels which would be overfishing if the fish population was at normal (did you know that breeding-age fish for many species no longer exist? As in, they're all dead? As in, no new fish?) Oh, and that topsoil I mentioned is creating a huge dead zone in the gulf of Mexico, where the water is devoid of oxygen. Animals not killed by this either a) attempt to leave and are sucked up by boats which circle the edge or b) stay in, going sterile in the process. Most big cats are going to go extinct, and only cheetahs are actually able to live moderately unprotected in the environment. And cheetahs have the genetic diversity of clones - you can graft skin from one onto another without rejection. Which is all very well and good when it comes to organ transplants, but very very bad when it comes to that new form of SARS that hit the big cats in a Chinese zoo a little while back. Speaking of which, do you know that most antibiotics don't work anymore? You don't even want to know the percentage of Americans that think Creationism's right. And in case you think the next generation's any better, let's get it clear - it's not. Do you know that the world is so complex most people don't know anything that's going on and we are no longer capable of filtering out truthful information from lies? There are so many issues it's impossible to focus on any one of them. The global mind has schizophrenia.
^^ Happy New Year. Enjoy it while it lasts.
So everyone:
Some good things. Science is marching happily onward - it's absolutely amazing at times. Did you know they're making a sort of handheld DNA scanner that can identify any animal's species based on a single gene? Yep, like Star Trek. It's far from complete right now, but it's already done some cool stuff - like shown that a species of butterfly is actually at least ten different mimicking species. Cloning is growing by leaps and bounds. Give it a few years and, government policies or no, they're going to have it down. I hope to get my cat cloned in a few years. We're able to identify defective genes and even change them, and we can actually engineer mosquitos to vaccinate people for diseases. On the hardware front, they're working on a completely new kind of computer, nanotubes that would be capable of creating a building that almost has 'nerves', and some incredibly hard and resilient metals (they've made a form of copper several times harder than normal steel. This sort of metal can be cast in molds like plastic, and doesn't warp the way metal does normally.) We've got hybrid and electric cars pretty much down, and we've found alternative sources of fuel - such as cars that can run solely on the waste grease of restaurants. The earth's population growth is slowing down and we're learning better ways of managing it all.
Some bad things. The ocean's about to collapse, we're using four barrels of oil for every one we find, and we passed the earth's carrying capacity about a mile back. The American government favors subsidizing the larger SUVs over hybrid or electric cars and spits in the face of alternative fuels. Most of the animals on the planet are going extinct. The polar ice caps are melting. Zooplankton is dying. New evidence shows that government regulations for pollutants aren't accurate and that there are no safe levels for many of these things. Topsoil is washing into the sea. The coral reefs are almost dead, but because that's not happening fast enough, companies are currently selling ground-up coral as a calcium supplement. Did I mention the ocean's about to collapse? Because it is, and what do you think is currently feeding the world's population? We're currently fishing at levels which would be overfishing if the fish population was at normal (did you know that breeding-age fish for many species no longer exist? As in, they're all dead? As in, no new fish?) Oh, and that topsoil I mentioned is creating a huge dead zone in the gulf of Mexico, where the water is devoid of oxygen. Animals not killed by this either a) attempt to leave and are sucked up by boats which circle the edge or b) stay in, going sterile in the process. Most big cats are going to go extinct, and only cheetahs are actually able to live moderately unprotected in the environment. And cheetahs have the genetic diversity of clones - you can graft skin from one onto another without rejection. Which is all very well and good when it comes to organ transplants, but very very bad when it comes to that new form of SARS that hit the big cats in a Chinese zoo a little while back. Speaking of which, do you know that most antibiotics don't work anymore? You don't even want to know the percentage of Americans that think Creationism's right. And in case you think the next generation's any better, let's get it clear - it's not. Do you know that the world is so complex most people don't know anything that's going on and we are no longer capable of filtering out truthful information from lies? There are so many issues it's impossible to focus on any one of them. The global mind has schizophrenia.
^^ Happy New Year. Enjoy it while it lasts.