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Death
22 June 2006
Foreword
The BBC has presented numerous programs explaining the succession of Living Organizations, depending on the availability of food, the death of these Organizations when an Asteroid would hit Earth and destroy for years all traces of organized Life. As the regretted Stephen Jay Gould stated, we cannot say when, we cannot say how much, but for sure, we can say it will happen again.
The very short period of the mammals, to which human beings belong, ended in the Universal Virus Pandemy, the word Universal meaning the Universe, not everything on Earth. All forms of fleshy life vanished, the Reign of the Glubs started.
Humans, a few decades ago, could not understand the Glubs, today we can. Glubs are the logical outcome of the Internet.
Glubs have no identity as such, they are just nodes of the internet, the highest praise for a Glub is so say that he is part of the net.
Yet, the Glub world is not Boolean, it is bad to be an individual and good to be a node in the net, yet at the same time, it is good to be an efficient node with much material and traffic.
In the Glub world, you both have no individuality, you are the network, and you have individuality, as you are a node but could choose within a few second not to be a node or to be a different node.
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Dear Readers whoever you are.
The Glubs were born forty years later when the implications of the matrix mathematics taught to me by Professor Geidel, entered into a zone of fertility.
From Professor Geidel, at that time a Consultant to the FAO Fertilizer Programme, I learned how easy it is to manipulate matrices.
At that time the Internet was not born as a reality of our daily life.
Possibly it came little by little, thanks to you that I realized that a web site, a web node, was both a part of the Web and the Web. The Glubs were born. Or rather reborn at this theme is nearly as old as the thinking humans.
While I am sure that you will see that the use of Internet and the building of a site would lead me to the Globs, I fear that it is less likely that it is your sites and your traffic that really gave life and sparkle to the Glubs.
Readers, greet your Creation!.
That reminds me of the books I hate, where the foreword is longer than the book.
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Good Morning Students!
Please, we are now well in into the procedure and I do expect you to Bubble yourself from your Glubitude and all be in Bubble nodes by the time we start, as I hate these suction noises and slimy slurps of deglubbing..
So, please by next time, be properly bubbly Deglubed by the time I arrive. I am not a harsh teachers, I will not object if you leave a few ports open for interconnection, but your appearance must be, well how better can we describe it than by saying “human”.
You are a very special Glub Unit, dealing both with Time Space manipulations and Anthropology. Students I wish to praise you, all young Glubs want to be space time manipulators, and none wants to spend bandwidth on trying to understand the mysterious civilization of Humans.
We have studied with success I must say, but of course, as you have noticed, this is not some kind of minor university desperately fighting to get ranking and traffic and adds, we are a very respected and highly praised University and I confess taking quite some pleasure in being one of its member, if I may say so, one of its most singular members as few are the Glubs who can pretend having any understanding of the forces that guide us, where was I?, oh yes, we are going to try and study something that has no meaning for us Glubs, something that dominated the whole life of the humans, no Red Haired Glub, I am not making reference to the procedure of constantly rubbing against one another, I am making reference to something they feared more than we fear power variations in the net, they feared death!!!
Red Haired Glub, your uncontrolled exclamation indicates that you need more individual coaching in the epidermal rubbing ceremony so you will kindly join me in my Office this night.
Amazingly, we recently received from a Papparazzi this unique picutre of the Glub Professor and one of his students.
Death !!!
The word in itself had such power on the Humans that they devoted all there life to avoid it, yet, and in this they were already showing some Glub characteristics, they were constantly stroking it, as if it was some kind of wild cat that they could tame.
Yes, blond Glub? What is a cat?
Well a cat is a kind of human which finds it more convenient to walk on four legs and never to work and let other humans do all the work. Why it should be rewarded for such breaches against the net etiquette by being epidermal rubbed, is a mystery. Possibly, blond Glub, we could look at what kind of reactions stroking of a furry epidermal layer does to the network if you come to my Office after the lecture?
Students, the subject today is DEATH!!!
The Glub that yawned, yes you at the back, disconnect yourself immediately or I will put a virus that will take days to clean away from your memory.!
Well students, I have quite often expressed in front of you, and I hope you do report it to them, the esteem in which I hold my most respected colleagues even from lesser colleges, even if they do not have access to a broadband and a data base sufficient to get a proper picture, nor to the brain capacity to manipulate such large bases, yet I feel that they really must be encouraged and that it is my duty to let it be felt that one day they could, well it will sound ridiculous, they could be in my position.
Humans were born. It was a rather messy procedure, we have a lot of information on how it took place, regretfully all our embryos-developed Human materials have been unable to give birth to a new human, even if the minus Humans have shown a better capacity to bring this process to maturity while the plus Humans have proved to be totally inept, behaving as if giving birth was none of their business.
So, regretfully, students, I cannot as usual bring in a group of Embryo material produced Humans, let them rub and then show how this will produce a new human miniature. But I do not intend to give up, I am sure that if we reduce the number of sensors implanted to monitor the process from two thousand to say one hundred and if we decrease the number of technicians observing the procedure down to ten instead of five hundred, and if we find the proper type of outer epidermis and scented clay apparently needed for this religious rubbing, we shall succeed in having a birth, here at our University, for the first time in the Glub Time!
From our studies, it would appear that as soon as a human was born, it would spend the whole of its life trying to delay the time it would be extruded from the network.
Apparently these humans considered that their presence as visible nodes was something absolutely essential.
For us Glubs, the whole thing is really a nonsense beyond our understanding. Why would a node feel that its presence on the Internet was more important than the presence of another node, why would it consider that having data stored just at that node location was better than having it stored at another location is beyond our understanding.
Apparently, they appeared to be functioning under the impression that their network would no longer exist once they had been node-deactivated.
As they were unable to understand the very minimal importance of their node activity, they had constructed a group of lower gifted technicians whose only job was to adjust the parameters of the Humans.
You wonder why they were using the refuses of the human World as white coat technicians. Well Glubs, the answer is rather obvious?
The middle Glubs, kindly Bubble yourself immediately into Bubble Nodes, and leave whatever activity you had on the net.
Well, students?
Well, the Humans were not totally idiotic even if we feel pity for them, they fully understood that a day would come when they would be disconnected; therefore it took a Human of very low cerebral activity to accept to waste time pushing this time back for a few periods.
These lower Humans were given white epidermal extra material and to compensate for the dreariness of their occupation and to keep them busy, as they appeared to consider this as something enviable, they were given extra rubbing privileges, preferably with other white coated humans.
You all remember, Glubs, what a huge day it was for us when we found the rubbish heap they called the Library of Congress and were able to numerize this mysterious information into some understandable form;
Many of my respected colleagues from universities that by now have been disconnected were rather ironic when this rubbish heap was disconnected, as one of my very esteemed colleague asked << what could be find in such rubbish but rubbish?>>.
Now, this numerized treasure is the source of many of our Glub developments. Have you been told that of the material we found, nearly 90% dealt with death and nearly 87% dealt with the before and during and after of the rubbing ceremony?
Students, we shall spend a few moments in low potential, in respect for these humans and their believes and fear of death;
Humans may have been very primitive and stupid, yet if you leave my course feeling that in some way, their fear was the substrate that would one day be the bud of the Internet, then I have not wasted my time.
Thank you students.
Climate crisis near 'in 10 years'
By Alex Kirby
BBC News website environment correspondent
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People are worried by climate change, Stephen Byers says
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The world may have little more than a decade to avert catastrophic climate change, politicians and scientists say.
A report by the International Climate Change Taskforce says it is vital that global temperatures do not rise by more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that would trigger this rise could possibly be reached in about 10 years or so.
A leading climate scientist has told the BBC he thinks temperatures may be higher than 2C some time this century.
Rapid risk increase
The taskforce was set up by the Institute for Public Policy Research, the Centre for American Progress and the Australia Institute.
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We might end up in the middle of that temperature range, and if we do that wouldn't make very good news
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC
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One of its co-chairs is the UK politican Stephen Byers MP, a former transport secretary.
In its report, Meeting the Climate Challenge, the taskforce urges governments to agree to a long-term objective of preventing global average temperatures exceeding the levels before the Industrial Revolution by more than 2C.
It says: "Beyond the 2C level, the risks to human societies and ecosystems grow significantly."
It says they would involve substantial agricultural losses, widespread adverse health effects and greatly increased risks of water shortage.
Many coral reefs and even the Amazon rainforest could suffer irreversible damage, the report says.
Point of no return
It says: "Above the 2C level, the risks of abrupt, accelerated or runaway climate change also increase.
Coral reefs could be badly hit
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"The possibilities include reaching climatic tipping points leading, for example, to the loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets (which, between them, could raise sea levels more than 10 metres over the space of a few centuries."
It says the circulation of water in the North Atlantic could also shut down, altering the Gulf Stream which warms north-west Europe.
The report says limiting temperature rise to 2C is likely to mean making sure atmospheric CO2 concentrations do not rise above about 400 parts per million (ppm).
They have already reached about 380 ppm, and have been rising recently at more than 2 ppm annually, meaning the taskforce's threshold could be crossed by about 2015.
Stephen Byers said: "Our planet is at risk. With climate change, there is an ecological time-bomb ticking away, and people are becoming increasingly concerned by the changes and extreme weather events they are already seeing."
Large rise possible
The taskforce's scientific adviser is Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The Thames has flood protection -
but for how much longer?
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The IPCC predicts that on present trends global sea levels will probably have risen by 9 to 88cm by 2100 and average temperatures will be between 1.5 and 5.5C higher than now. The last Ice Age was only 4-5C colder than today.
Dr Pachauri told the BBC News website: "I think in the last few years the increase in emissions does cause concern.
"It gives you the feeling we might end up in the middle of that temperature range, and if we do that wouldn't make very good news."
The taskforce's other recommendations include:
the G8 and other major economies, including from the developing world, form a G8+ Climate Group
G8 governments generate at least 25% of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2025
governments remove barriers to and increase investment in renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies and practices by taking steps including the phase-out of fossil fuel subsidies.
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My Professor at Uppsala University, Svante Odèn was working on these subjects in 1975; He was not the first one.His predecessor was Bombus Eriksson, another Huge man.
He got so fed up with he stupidity and aggressing of the Scientific Community that one day, he went out of this life.
I thank Life for having let me meet a true genius and hope life will forgive me for not having given him enough support.
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