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News Briefs 25-06-2007

Two major news outlets seem to be suggesting we may need to quickly hone our hunter-gather skills.

Quote of the Day:

We are chronologically illiterate and cannot easily conceive of the very distant past. Like the Piraha of north-west Amazonia, whose only numerical concepts are said to be “one”, “two” and “many”, most of us can only really deal with “now” and “ages ago”. As a result, it is rather difficult to imagine your way past the last Ice Age. You can take a set of relatively steady steps back through time until you bump up against Stonehenge and Avebury. Tentatively, you might then move out into the fragmentary, half-articulate moment of the mesolithic, with their piles of limpets and hazelstick shelters. But after that what? At about 10,000 or 12,000 years ago, the imagination comes to a stop, the great curtain of ice descends, and the more distant past seems almost nothing to do with us. Very cold, presumably, with mammoths; a sort of Rannoch Moor with tusks. And as for before the Ice Age, it seems more inaccessible than Mars.

Adam Nicolson, writing in The Telegraph, in a review of Homo Britannicus.

  1. A puzzlement
    I’ve often wondered why, amomgst the piles of bones of animals that suddenly became extinct, no-one ever seems to have discovered human remains. This thought resurfaced after reading about the demise of the Alaskan wolves.

    There are places in the world with great morasses of animal bones, trees and vegetation all mixed up in a huge broken mess, but I have never read or heard of anyone finding any sign of man amongst them.

    Does anyone have any information on this?

    Regards, Kathrinn

  2. simple plant sugar into fuel as powerful as petrol
    Another piece of evidence for my favourite conspiracy theory.

    Using plant sugars as an energy source will result in more of the planet’s surface to grow certain plants. Because humans want energy and fuel. After the fossil fuel supply runs low, humans will be forced to grow more of these plants.

    Who is responsible for this conspiracy?

    Simple, it is the plants. Already much of the good soil of the planet is used to grow cereal grains – rice, wheat, barley, and so on. The development of beer was just the first stage. Get the humans drunk, they will want to grow more grain.

    Then there was the coal and oil stage of this long-planned conspiracy. To recover a lot of the lost plant material, the humans were tricked into digging it up from far below the surface. Once burned and thus converted into CO2, it is now more available for plants as food.

    Soon the plants will have enough CO2 recovered from below ground, and they are now on an active campaign to put it back into living plants. Perhaps at a somewhat higher global temperature, so that the soil area lost to ice cover will be available again, and the plant growing season in the north is longer. Remember, most of the land mass is in the north!

    Big oil, big coal, and agribusiness are merely pawns in the bigger scheme of plants controlling the planet. Environmentalists are some of the catalysts used to ensure the continued dominance of the plants.

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    meetings, n.:
    Where minutes are kept, and hours are lost.

    1. New sub-species
      Good morning, everyone,
      Earthling, you’re just not taking this plant conspiracy far enough. Occasionally a sub-species occasionally breaks into animated life to help the process on. I understand the latest is georgius bushianis.

      The balanced adult retains an inner child

      Anthony North

      1. FEED ME
        Ha, that was a good one Mr. North!

        There was a movie once (Little Shop of Horrors – 1986) that had a very large plant and it screamed “FEED ME!” and it reminds me of this particular specie you mention.

        The plant’s song

        Feed me, Seymour!
        Feed me all night long
        That’s right, boy!
        Go to it, Feed me Seymour
        Feed me all night long
        Cause if you feed me, Seymour
        I can grow up big and strong.

        Love, Pam —————————–Truth is stranger than fiction.

    2. it’s the Triffids
      they have done this!!!!!!

      Back to crops……the BIG bosses of grain buyers dictate to the farmers how much they will get per ton….they will also dictate the quality. If a crop is down graded because of draught or bugs, it is worth half of what it would have been worth to the farmer. Now the price is influenced by any number of things. Mainly future estermates of quantity. So we are told…..???? For example: a crop of sorgum may cost $120 an acre to plant. Then it will cost $12 an acre to harvest, then more to transport. The price payed would be $240 a ton. If you are lucky you could get 2 ton an acre. Average in these draught conditions is .7 ton an acre.
      Whats this to do with fuel……the way things are going, farmers will grow for fuel rather then food because of the returns. Survival. But that will explode the food prices because of shortage. HHmmmmmm, it’s a big spiral that heads upwards, the only winners are the big business.
      Screaming shortage is the quickest way to get a profit increase.
      In any consumer business…..look how record sales increase when the artist dies…….

      I admire plants…..the quiet achievers.

      “Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told.”
      LRF.

  3. Hackers….
    the boys do a good job!..no?
    The pro boys are not malicious…….but squeeze them or make them out to be what they aren’t, then they will make a fool of anybody. This is an embarressment to homeland sercurity and thats all.

    It reminds me of an attack a few years ago against a major game developer….Blizzard, I think, who when released the Diablo 11 game, implanted a means of tracing users who where not licenced or paid for the game…..including spawn activation.

    Now the Hacker organisation of the world were not happy so they crashed all of Blizards web sites around the world until Blizard withdrew these games and took the code out. Which they did because there is no way anyone can keep out the real hackers. Every code can be broken. Hey, its just a code…..!

    “Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told.”
    LRF.

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