h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Pretty much what I'd say. About the living with it that is.

Yes, AK has a point. Beware the pointles traps of semantics. Mother Nature was like God, invented in previous times for security.

Entropy and Order clash merely in the figurative sense, despite them being opposites; you may as well say that the knife was made to battle the fork.

Intelligence isn't really cheating, though. It's just another attribute. It is interesting to think that as much as intelligence is unimaginable to giraffes or the hump-backed albatross (despite the fact that the first doesnt have intelligence to imagine with and the latter is DEAD ), there may well be other factors alien to us.
Nice to see that someone agrees that humanity aren't the natural "master race" of evolution. We have no stability, for one thing, and the only attribute we excel in is intelligence.
Ah, if only Douggy hadn't written about the meaning of life, people wouldn't keep bringing it up. Yes, it's nice and surreal. Yes, it is nonsense and random and that reflects Douglas Adams' view of life. Yes, it has all been said before. Even that.
Question: Is life more than the sum of its parts?

Yeah!

Nice to see that. I'd say it was more like the tortoise or the mosquito. Or, until it was discovered, the dodo.

Not if you look at it for the moment, no. But if you look at where it has come, and where it's going, then yes.

Life?

Life.

Glad that's cleared up then.

Oh yes, me too, me too.
I was worried there for a second that I wouldn't get an answer.

I gave you an answer, a while back,

*Confusion*

Yes, AK, you did. But you started sounding scarily like SolelySuffering... And you were saying that it isn't now but will be eventually. Which is an interesting and somewhat controversial answer. And I'll answer it when I've time.
And Roadkill, Confucius, he say, a lot of stuff.

Indeed.

He's in my dictionary.

Really? All I have in mine is "blase", "ornithologist" and "zebra".

AK,
Ah, to be shot down in flames.....lovely , yep not much of a theory.I remember reading the books some time ago and when finishing them getting this 'gestalt ' vision thingy ( this is of course the technical version )Didn't think too much about it. (obvious )

42? Long live the incomprehensible , the challenge to understand makes life interesting.

The only problem with 42 is that it is not meaningless, and it was written by a human, which takes away the mystique.
"Ah, to be shot down in flames....."
Bad habit of mine. Still, it's justified by my philosophy.

"Not if you look at it for the moment, no. But if you look at where it has come, and where it's going, then yes" I had said
I guess it does sound like SS..., I mean you have to take into consideration that we started as microscopic blobs that did nothing but eat, excrete, and reproduce... if even all that...
And we've got to become something! We're not going to stay like this forever. Its not necessarily good though, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole race is exstinct in a millenium from their own mistakes

Oh, sorry, updating my personal space, or I woulda replied earlier.
Technically we haven't evolved at all, you know. We're still just arrangements of carbon atoms; not even necessarily more complicated ones. Elephants for example could be thought to be more complicated arrangements, simply because they are larger so the number of permutations is greater.
A millenium is glass-half-fulling it a bit, I think. A few hundred years, and if we're not dead then, we never will be. Until the solar system is crushed into a singularity by the black hole at its center.

It'll be billions of years until that.



ACtualyl with the millenium thing thoguh I was referring to pollution... I don't think we'll last that long unless we really start colonizeing other planets quick.

Oh, I'm not sure pollution'll be the problem. After all, it'll all start going away once we run out of all the fuels we use to live on.
Oh, damn. College tomorrow. Well, gotta run (to bed). See all you avid readers of the near future soon!

The problem is once we run out of fuels we still'll have liek 10 billion people...