Balls of Evolution

Good evening to all of you.

The world is quite the overwhelming place at times, and human existence even more so. There is always so much to do, and so much to see and think and learn, that I do not understand how any of us ever manage to find peace of mind, but we do somehow. For me, I find solace in music, beauty, and wonderful people. It is those things that keep my mind from wandering aimlessly down winding roads with no beginning or end. Without all of that, I don't think I would ever think a clear thought, my mind would be a mash-up of discombobulated nonsensical nonsense. Sometimes I feel like my mind is like that anyways, so I can't possibly imagine what it would be like if there was nothing to keep me in check. Everybody needs something in their lives that settles them down. Be it a loved one, sports, nature, music, whatever, everybody needs it. Without it, all of us would be the most amazing assholes you have ever seen.

I was pondering something with Andrew this evening. Why is the world so concerned with itself? I mean, there are vary obvious answers to this question, like because we have to be, because its all we can see, because if we don't something bad will come of us, but what about being concerned with things outside of our world? It would take many many nuclear weapons to stop the 10,000 year ball of modern human evolution from rolling, but only one kilometer wide rock to fall from space. We as a species have accomplished a great number of wonder achievements in a very short time and there appears to be no chance of the advance slowing. It appears to me that it is constantly speeding up, with no end in sight. However, I believe there must be a breaking point somewhere, a point where we officially pushed it too far and fucked something up beyond recognition. Lets call this the FUBAR boundary. We can keep pushing and pushing, but eventually nature will push back.

At this point in our evolution, we are essentially God. We now control everything that happens upon this planet with the exception of weather, which we are working on, geologic forces, (also trying to control those), and anything that comes from space. All life on this planet is now at our whim and we could wipe it off the face of this planet if we so desired to. Does this level of control not disturb you? What the hell happened to real nature? Currently, people are building a particle collider under Switzerland with the goal of creating small black holes in a lab. Uh, so let me get this straight. You want to crete an object with gravity so strong that not even light can escape, and you want to contain it a small metal sphere? And you think that this is a good idea because...? I understand the scientific curiosity behind this, and I fully believe it can be done without destroying the planet, but at the same time I feel as if this might be stretching our reach a bit too far into something we know diddly-squat about. Hey, if it works, give the physicists their Nobel. This is exactly my point behind the FUBAR boundary. Eventually we will push our control over nature too far, and it will squash us. Enjoy the thought that somewhere in Europe, somebody is attempting to create the single most exotic and potentially dangerous planet and star destroying object in the universe. Sleep tight.

- Zack, From Vancouver