tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post1984245448486692648..comments2024-01-08T09:12:42.920-05:00Comments on SF and Nonsense: Year's first potpourri Edward M. Lernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620756142619513714noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post-34109416183266185102014-01-15T16:39:56.833-05:002014-01-15T16:39:56.833-05:00How will we cope? Finding out is the fun of it :-)...How will we cope? Finding out is the fun of it :-)<br /><br />- EdEdward M. Lernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15620756142619513714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post-20460657382750086402014-01-15T16:37:30.865-05:002014-01-15T16:37:30.865-05:00So many wonders coming upon us. How will we cope? ...So many wonders coming upon us. How will we cope? As DNA discovers our individuality for medical treatment, will some see that as a challenge? ... oppose uniqueness as a threat to social uniformity and control? And indeed, life is old. As a 9 yo, I was fascinated to read of Roy Chapman Andrews' expedition to find dinosaurs in the Gobi, at 9 that was remote and unreal. At 12 exploring a quarry I pulled up a flat piece of shale intending to spin it like a pie plate. It had three two-inch trilobite fossils on it. I sat and touched each of them, suddenly the past was real; these creatures died on this spot so long ago, right where I sat. The cloud mystery is just one of many that climate science ... whatever that is ... will find inconvenient. Science is wonderful and complex, stirring to those who want to see it, defying those who want it to control it's message.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com