Syrinx - The elephant in the room - Comments

I thought about putting a conchord vid up yesterday..

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:16:12 -0600

ok mind melt.. we are all thinking the same thing now. Still my fave is the robot one as I told Dan yesterday.

Conchords!

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:38:14 -0600

I can't believe you posted that! Susan and I spent much of yesterday evening watching and laughing at Conchord videos on YouTube. And because of that, the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the title to your comment was "The humans are dead"! Imagine my surprise when the link lead to that very song! In the interest of completeness, here's a link to the "studio" version of the same song: The Humans are Dead And here's another couple of hilarious Flight of the Conchords videos, though these are a bit off-subject for this thread... The Boom King Hiphopopotamus Binary solo!

a solution to the problem

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:26:27 -0600

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64

nothing to sneeze at

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:23:32 -0600

By definition, though, humans are not viruses, although the analogy is interesting.

Very tiny parasites that penetrate into cells, and then use the cells’ machinery to multiply and eventually contaminate other cells. Viruses are molecular constructs made of a genome ( DNA or RNA ) and a protein envelope. To reproduce themselves, they hijack the life processes of the host cell. The human immune system can destroy certain viruses (e.g. cold viruses) or limit their reproduction (e.g. herpes viruses), while others escape the body’s vigilance (e.g. AIDS). There are anti-viral medications (e.g. acyclovir for herpes) that inhibit viral replication without completely eliminating the virus. Vaccines, when they exist, offer the best protection. In the treatment of cancers and genetic diseases , like cystic fibrosis, gene therapy makes use of certain deactivated viruses as “vectors” to transfer healthy genes into damaged or deficient target cells.

http://www.lexicon-biology.com/biology/definition_5.html http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Virus http://www.answers.com/topic/virus?cat=health animation of virus replication

Ebola?

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:02:16 -0600

From that article: "Being proud of being human is like being proud of being an ebola virus". Agent Smith: "You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area". Harsh, yes, but the reality is that we ARE acting just like a virus on the planet. We have to stop. But we won't.

some more data

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:33:42 -0600

http://mindprod.com/environment/population.html

The elephant in the room

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:08:55 -0600

The Toronto Star ran an article last Sunday which explores a discussion Susan and I had on that same day! I just found it today through TreeHugger as I don't read the Star. There are many environmental issues people are trying to solve in the world, such as global warming, species extinction and pollution, to name a few. The elephant in the room that nobody talks about is human overpopulation. That is the base problem behind all of the environmental issues we're facing.