From: Party of Citizens (citizens@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 19 2001 - 14:57:33 MDT
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> Party of Citizens wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Lee Corbin wrote:
> >
> > > Party of Citizen say
> > >
> > > > Ahhh grasshoppers, how can rationality be complete without
> > > > irrationality? How can that which is be complete without
> > > > that which is not? How can the yin be complete without the yang?
> > > >
> > > > When you put the yin of rationality together with the yang of
> > > > irrationality do you not get REALITY...the world which science
> > > > observes? And is your science not incomplete without both?
> > >
> > > Ah, so. Can there be intelligence without stupidity? Can
> > > there be fullness without scarcity? And indeed, can there
> > > be light without darkness? Well said!
> >
> > Can there be global warming without global cooling? That said, I live
> > less than 100 ft. above sea level near the shoreline in Vancouver. After
> > Spike's optimistic note on global warming I had to wonder if I should
> > trade my rubber duckie for a rubber raft.
>
> Trade it in for a plexiglass bubble and live under water. Global warming
> is an immense opportunity to develop mass production techniques for
> pressure vessels for underwater living, the first step in acclimatizing
> humanity to colonizing space. All of these island nations that risk
> total immersion should be focusing their money on developing underwater
> infrastructure, ocean thermal energy systems.
How about just starting to build shoreline floating apartment complexes
like the recently completed "World of ResidenSea"? Existing buildings in a
place like Vancouver have a limited life span. As the sea rises, the old
buildings get torn down anyway and the new ones to replace them can float
so they will be relocated as the owners wish. Operation Noah?
POC
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