Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Let's colonize space for fun, noted physicist says. How will we get so many people to outer space? Lasers? Elevators? Atomic bombs are out, Freeman Dyson says. [CNET News.com] I think this guy is on to something.  Lets look at space travel like we do any other pioneering/exploring venture that strikes our fancy as a way to deal with what bugs us in the here and now.  For example,  how many  people ended up being pioneers to the "other ocean" because of dissatisfaction with the conditions in the East?  Yeah, there were initial explorers who laid the trails and led others, but really, hasn't NASA already done that for us?  Was NASA to Mars as Lewis and Clark was to the Westward Passage?  Yeah, I know we would be crossing both SPACE and TIME barriers but hey we've got a lot more to work with than Conastoga wagons, the ruts they created and endless plaines of undisturbed prairie grasses too. 5:23:56 PM    comment [] Wishing Upon a Star: Hiring a CEO from Inside the Company Vs. Going Outside [Edu_RSS] 4:02:09 PM    comment [] http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/102/106704.htm?pagenumber=1 There is so much about this that, unfortunately, isn't surprising having grown up attending a college where the pledge cards on the sinful actions of booze, smoking and prematrial sex were a mandatory requirement that was signed and then ignored. And, given that oral and anal are not considered sex by this generation but can still transmit STDs, why are these researchers really surprised that the technical virgins or premarital late starters have the same rate as the early "sinners"  We need to get real on this topic.  Education about birthcontrol methods and put abstinence on the list if you must, but jeez, accept that sex is a natural act that has associated risks when you are both young and old.  And give the young the information to work with so they don't have to keep relearning the pains of STDs, HIV and unwanted pregnancies.  And, note the year on this study.  1995 -- the loyalty cards have just been piling up since then hat tip to Catch 22)  10 years later, want to bet that we not only don't see a difference in STD rates with the hymen savers ( is that same as sing me a hymn and save my soul) and the more earthy types.  Bet we now see an increase in STDs among the h-savers ahead of the non h-savers Save us from these do gooders - - I don't have the fragmentation I had when I was young.  Can't always sign and ignore :-) 12:42:33 PM    comment []

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