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Originally Posted by thedoc
The 'butterfly effect' is popular nonsense, any small input can easily be drowned out by other larger inputs. Show me a million butterflies flapping their wings in unison in the same direction, and maybe you have something to consider.
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Short reply No.1: Explain to me in detail what you think the "butterfly effect" is,
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Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger
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Originally Posted by thedoc
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Originally Posted by But
Hmm. Let's see. Climate changes. The planet has fever.
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A fever is usually a bodies was of killing an infection, So if the planet has a fever it's probably trying to get rid of an infection, and the only one I can think of right now is people. |
Indeed. Some proponents of the "Gaia Hypothesis" more or less seriously claim that global warming is the planet's way of getting rid of us -- or more precisely, the industrial technology that is contributing to destabilization of the Earth's ecosystems.
Personally, I think that the Gaia Hypothesis is pretty-much nonsense on stilts, but I must admit that there's a certain poetic justice to the notion of us being done in by our own arrogant refusal to accept that our actions have consequences. |
and short reply No.2: Please tell me what your interpretation of the Gaia Hypothesis is. I might add that in my worldview at the moment, there are large oscillating masses at the center of the planet that bend the world lines of particles. Have you ever noticed that when you pass a certain point at, say, 10 AM and 10 PM on the same day (2 Pi phase shift), you can pick up energy at one point and leave it at the other?