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"We can reach Mars in just 11 days with a crewed 40 mT vehicle. Actually, we already made it to Mars in 34 days requiring just a few micrograms of antiprotons using the DENIED muon-catalyzed fusion propulsion device. But all the technology you could use for space propulsion we use it to power our underwater facilties. The ocean covers roughly 70% of the earth’s surface and about 80% of that is deep sea. In a disintegrating planet going underwater is a must. That's how we prepare for what's to come.
A slower metabolism, due to lower temperatures, so therefore organisms live longer and can grow larger. A larger size and lower surface area to mass ratio creates advantages in body temperature regulation. Scarcer food resources delay sexual maturity and result in a larger size.
"You shall acknowledge no God but me. . . . You are destroyed, Israel. . . . The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open." (Hosea 13:4, 9, 16 New International Version)
"O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us! Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!"
(Psalm 137:8–9 NRSV)
Do you think that the Nature Spirits form the consciousness of Earth? I'm sort of seeing it as a collective force that's bound to the planet, responding if another force crosses its boundaries.
You are defined as primitive beings by your inability to understand that any elite to which you grant decision-making powers must be selected at random from the entire world population. You are unfit for contact.
Are they suggesting we should select (powers that be) randomly from the entire world population?
“The only guiding principle is this: potential future lives are morally equivalent to existing lives. Only when we have learned that we will be contacted.”
Steering the world through an age of perils involves difficult choices. Choices that will frequently have divergent answers depending on one’s values. Even a comparatively smaller crises lead to clashes in values and understandings of what defines a good society. This is something we accept. What we don't accept, the thing we will never accept, is that you always talk about decision-makers that we always find to be just an elite, a small group of people that is not selected at random from its wider population. For us, you are a retarded civilization not because not because you do not know how to coexist with the environment, not because your propulsion systems are primitive, not because your science is still closer to superstition than to reason; you are cognitively primitive beings not because you do not understand the reality around you. All that does not define you as primitive beings. You are defined as primitive beings by your inability to understand that any elite to which you grant decision-making powers must be selected at random from the entire world population. You are unfit for contact.