[extropy-chat] re: news in perspective

[The Avantguardian]

--- Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:

> Here's a bit of 'trivia' that someone pointed me to
> today,
> a video, from January, from the PBS program "Nova":
> 
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/02.html
> 
> The video fairly accurately predicted what was going
> to happen.
> I wonder why the New Orleans area wasn't better
> prepared, given
> that these dangers were so well-known.

Because when the solutions to dangerous problems are
difficult to implement, we are reluctant to solve them
and instead, we simply live in denial of the danger.
"hmmm. . . is that smoke coming from Vesuvius? Well I
don't have time to worry about that now, I must get my
sapho to market." - Castigus of Pompei.  

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"The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us." 
-Bill Watterson


		
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