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Originally Posted by Russ
Obviously my views lean towards the spiritual but even on those terms as well as evolutionary, we are vastly over-inflating our own importance on the planet. We are only the (self-imposed) dominant species because God/nature/whatever-you-believe-in allows us to be.
A good example is the weather. We may think we're awesome enough to get a Short Circuit-type robot on another planet but all it takes is for nature to slightly alter the Gulf Stream to give us the chaos that the rain caused last year.
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Our brains!
But yes controlling the climate is a step too far for us
at the moment. Ultimately even if we manage in reign in the earth and manage nature we'll still face the prospect of the sun burning out.
We need to colonise other planets!!