Ian & Stuart's Australian Mac: Not for Sale/Another.not.for.sale (Australia).iso/hold me in your arms/nanomius/etc/doomsday2

Internet Message Format | 1994-09-24 | 2KB

From: Roger Voss <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Date: Wed,  7 Sep 94 14:59:41 TZ
Subject: RE: Doomsday

I never can understand why folks feel so compelled to go out of their
way to dispel projections of doomsday and all that. I guess they feel
if they make a convincing enough argument for why doomsday won't happen
then they themselves can psychologically rest easy in a peace of mind
that it won't. It is a self-comforting act.

But it is all poppy cock to try and argue against doomsday. There are
any manner of fates that could quite possibly befell the entire world
and end life on it as we know it. And all such possible doomsday
scenarios are hard core unarguably scientific. Indeed we have very
strong evidence that the pattern of life has already been disrupted
dramatically on planet Earth several times in its past. This kind of
persistent episodal history makes the odds all the more likely of a
repeat episode as it tends to indicate some sort of intrinsic condition
in our space/time neck of the woods.

And in the long term the sun will expand into a small red giant and
encompass the orbit of Earth anyway. And in the even longer term the
process of increasing entropy will make the entire universe expand into
cold nothingness (though you can always hope for a contraction into
another primordial cosmic egg).

You may not personally like the idea of doomsday but you had better get
used to it anyway. Doomsday is part of the natural cycle of things in
our little corner of the universe. There is no use in trying to
practice reality avoidance and wish it away by strung together
argumentation/refutation. All the literary verbiage of the human race
put together would not do one thing to deflect a large size asteroid
that happens to be on a collision course with our planet.

President of The Chicken Little Society