Natural Science Forum / Biology / Biology / November 2007

Plutonium Day is the November 7 of every year for it was on this day
that the Plutonium Atom
Totality was discovered in 1990. The second and only other holiday in
the year is 14 December for that is
the day in which the element plutonium was discovered in 1940.

In the future, those will be the only two holidays in all countries
around the world. It may take
a thousand years or less, but in the future the only two holidays will
be these two. Everything
else we celebrate is of minor significance.

In past years I would celebrate this day with alot of joy and
excitement and doing something
new and different. But this year I am very much somber. I recently
learned that bees are
dying out worldwide. I knew of it before but never knew how large
scale was the dying out.
The large scale dying out of bees was not on my radar until a TV show
outlined the amount.
So bad is the bee populations that some Chinese pear orchards have to
mechanically pollinate
their pear trees every year.

And the show gave the stark assessement that if all bees died out we
would have no fruit
or vegetables or nuts and much of the flowering plants would be gone.
And only wind pollinated crops of
wheat corn rice would remain. Imagine a world where there is no fruits
or vegetables.

I recently wrote a Internet book about the possibility of humanity
going extinct. And one of the
themes of that book was that we perhaps can stave off a extinction
scenario if we are faced with
one or two grave disasters such as global warming and nuclear war. But
what the book tried
to outline as a theme was what if we are hit with multiple disasters
such as what if Global
Warming does extinct bees and many plants follow the bee extinction
into their own
extinction so that we have Cascading Extinctions. And humanity may
just get caught up in
a Cascading Extinction where we go extinct.

I do not like to be pessimistic and I rather spend my last decades of
life optimistic and
reassuring. I do not like gloom and doom. But the more and more I see
in my last decades
is not reassuring to me. Where we have this huge problem of Human
Overpopulation which is
fueling increasing Global Warming, and where we see politicians
talking about how to put more
health care money in your pockets rather than campaigning about the
"big problems". Sort of
a world out of synch and out of touch with reality.

Today I was thinking of suppose scientists found a huge asteroid
bearing down on Earth and
scheduled to impact by October of 2008. A huge rock that is ten times
bigger than the
KT bolide of the dinosaurs. And that such a report would be greeted by
the USA public with
what are the Democrats and Republicans promising if elected getting
page one coverage speaking
about shallow things of health care and economic growth while a bolide
is moving closer
and closer.

Well, maybe it is good that humanity goes extinct, for then, young
school children never have
to waste time of memorizing some fool list of past American
presidents.

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Usually on Plutonium day I do some music or poetry, but this year I am
too somber for even that,
and I find myself as I get older that I look upon music as not
satisfying anymore. That I rather
have peace and quiet and that music is more of a distraction from
thought. I remember my
father had the same attitude as he got older he listened less and less
to music.

I have alot to be thankful of so I should not be so somber and moody.

But let me depart this years Plutonium Day on a very good and upbeat
note. That by believing
in an Atom Totality, where God is Science and Science is God, that the
best we can do
on Earth is to find scientific truth, because even if humanity is
fated for extinction, that the
Atom Totality carries on.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies