Stumbled across this. A superb piece of rational thought and non-political theory. Take a few minutes for this one - I promise you won't be sorry: Because in the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better. That's not a good future for the human race. http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote05.html
Re: Re: Michael Crichton on the Environment - Read This Pretty good one on DDT if you're interested: http://www.acsh.org/forum/phantom/ddt.html When I was a kid, I actually lived in Borneo. They used to come around our community and spray DDT about once a week. We used to ride our bikes behind the damn truck, weaving in and out of the fog cloud. Glad to know that isn't gonna give me cancer. Now, the pack a day I smoked for about 10 years is a different story.
It was a blast actually. Although not as exotic as it sounds. My father was an engineer at a natural gas refinery. It was actually kind of like growing up at club med -company owned dive boats, ski boats, sail boats. Company hired boat drivers. We'd ride are bikes down to the docks after school and water ski 'til dark. Good times.
Side note: there was a thread on the free for all forum asking who had lived in the weirdest places. I ended the thread after about 5 posts: Brega, Libya Tripoli, Libya Bontang, East Kalimantan (Indonesian province on Borneo) I should have waited a bit, cause nobody really posted after that
Unless somebody has spent some time in Outer Mongolia or maybe Swaziland, you've pretty much retired the trophy.