Worry?

Post #334,742 by dmcarls 10/25/10 12:28:24 PM Reply	Worry? Yes, indeed. But, be careful... http://www.laborator...aspx?xmlmenuid=51 "...Researchers, however, believe they have found a long-term solution. They think the insect could be tamed by its archnemesis - a Chinese wasp. But that is years away. Welty says the government needs to make certain that the wasp won't cause more problems than it solves." The dubious experiments with cane toad in Australia come to mind.
Post #334,766 by Ashton 10/26/10 5:33:32 AM Reply	All I need to hear is.. 'wasps' and the plots for a mini-series just flood in. Clearly the chinese Stink Bug has a higher IQ than its (local?) nemeses. {shudder} I wonder what the budget for this 'little problem' is ... $500, my guess.
Post #334,768 by folkert 10/26/10 7:47:25 AM Reply	Its no worse than... Shipping Honey Bees Globally. Different Variants of Honey Bees are being shipped globally... and back. Picking up really pissy things like bacteria and fungal infections that are decimating hives that have never seen it before. Ehhh... what is the worst that could happen? (Ashton, that last question was a HUGELY rhetorical one!)
Post #334,855 by Ashton 10/27/10 2:16:47 PM Reply	Rhetorical or no, The thing about The Worst ... is, you only ever hear about That.. in retrospect. 'Cause just-no-one ever wants to go there while there is (may.. be) still time to take annoying, boring? likely costly steps to forestall ... something so unLikely -- everyonehopes.) Maybe that IS the reason why the only thing homo-sap 'learns from history' is: that we Don't. [OK I won't even mention the ongoing, geometrically-increasing Problems with DOW's genetically-modified seeds. That movie, too will be on Nova (the stone tablets form, perhaps.) All about the hubris of imagining that you know Enough, when the dim-young MBAs say; "Make a billion of these and let's see what happens.."] What, Me Worry? And I still like Edw. Teller's (lone?) memorable quip, "The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function." That and similar pithy quotes re, the profligacy of the human legacy can be found at: http://www.systemsthinker.com/quotes/ Like.. "Men have become the tools of their tools. " =- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity." -- George Will And so it goes.. (Kurt V. natch)

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