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

Gosh... I didn't know it was old fashioned already.

Well it helps if you got more than gannets as permanent residents ya know? I mean it's hard to get people to accept that the gannets mighta craved the protection of the Crown under treaty and stuff.

Now I was thinking though that Greenpeace coulda said the gannets turned over the isleta to them under treaty for the protection of birdland and birdculture and stuff kinda like the Maori did in NZ. Of course getting the protection of the Queen didn't help the Maori much did it? Maybe Greenpeace woulda done better by them but who knows?

One thing's for sure... the SAS ain't gonna protect them... they only know how to blow stuff up which would sorta render the whole thing moot then right? Because then the oil companies would have to justify a claim to open water... which they could probably do if they could build a few company towns on the seafloor... but the mudloggers probably wouldn't go for it.

Greenpeace would have stuck them into their little grass skirts again,and everybody else who doesn't look out too, because we ask for it via our subconscious cravings, mind you grass skirts definitely would be an improvement on suits, at least in the hot climes, not that suits are much good in the cold, and while we still wiggle our butts delightedly they'd built a fence around us and make us all into model ecological savages, because that too is our subconscious craving, true democracy i call that, being given what i want before i know i want it, even if i never know, and guess who'll be the chiefs of the tribe?

Does this grass skirt have a top? Or are you going native?

Au contraire, as the man said in the Bay of Biscay when they asked if he'd dined, I'd resist any such nativist attempt on my person with all four feet, with a fair amount of hissing and spitting and baring of fangs thrown in, to make it stick.

Why, do you have anything to hide?

You see,this is a discussion that's sort of spilled over from another place, matter of principle thingy I'm afraid, which by now is quite inaccessable by logic or any other consideration

She doesn't do 'exotic' stuff but I do... or did... so if you're looking for hidden thangs... well... who knows? Depends on what trips your trigger of course... and it ain't free neither ok?

And I also think we maybe discussed this ecological savage thang before with Del saying it's convenient all us savages got no history so our little transgressions get buried along with the rest of the archeological debris except that ain't quite right ya know? In fact, you could say the same thing about Romans or anybody else... because they don't usually document their screwups.

Which doesn't change the main issue in the least which is if you get big enough to shove things faster through the entropy mill you get more entropy faster... duh!!! So maybe there's an advantage to Rockall discussions because they sorta put things in a microcosmic perspective that's hard to see on say an island like Ireland... let alone a continent.

And ya gotta wonder maybe at the kinda minds that think up things like claiming rocks in the middle of the ocean so they can sink gazillion dollar drilling rigs for a few more years of petrochemical gluttony. Nevermind the ecosavage stuff... when will these idiots get it through their thick skulls that they're using up 300 million years worth of hydrocarbon accumulation in a few generations and human beings don't live near long enough to fix it? So when it's gone it's gone... end of story and it's going fast... duh!!!

But their creepy little market system will give them plenty of incentives to act stupid until the bitter end and then they'll complain about the friggin dark ages again when the lights go out.

Like Agatha had Hercule Poirot remark, you have only to let people talk to get to know things. It doesn't matter what they say, even lies, let them talk long enough and you'll know all about them. The Romans didn't write up their screw ups, but the decisive thing is that they wrote things up. So we know pretty much about them anyway

Yeah right... the parts they wanted you to know about the people who wanted to be known.

Not quite, as they weren't ashamed of exactly the same things that we are. Anyway, to people who say they have no records, because they got nothing to hide, i can only say that won't wash, not a chance. Murder will out. That was Agatha saying.

Yeah... but murder mysteries are fiction. Real murders do go undetected and unpunished alotta times. And justice is rarely done.

But you're right about them being unashamed. Most of the time if you're powerful enough you can murder or do anything else you want out in the open and nobody says nothing until they figure out how to kill you without suffering too much. That's brute force in action right?

I wonder if it really is better in the longrun?