I’m still finding it hard to concentrate long enough to produce anything like a Newswithviews column. Maybe next week, I pray.
Meanwhile, here’s one from 2018 (Good grief! Was that really five years ago? Where does the time go?)
If you’re gonna study computer models instead of reality, and sit like pirates’ parrots on the shoulders of statist politicians, and swoon with admiration whenever you look in the mirror–
Well, you can at least feel like a scientist.
Study our civilization! If you can find it.
Is there a secret government agency whose only job is to invent ever-more frivolous ways to waste our money?
I’d like to know how much this caper cost–“studying” the effects of Climbit Change on an alien civilization on another planet.
Just askin’–what do they mean by a “civilization”? Our own planet has had many civilizations. It has quite a few different ones today. But then most of science-fiction has always taken eventual Global Government as a given.
Heaven forbid.
I suppose, meanwhile, it would do no good to ask for our money back…
Are these people quite all there?
Below the disclaimer by MSN and Microsoft, we have an article from The Atlantic entitled “How Do Aliens Solve Climate Change?” (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/how-do-aliens-solve-climate-change/ar-AAy3Ndh) I will not repeat the exclamation my wife uttered when she discovered it.
As we speak, a group of scientists (LOL) are “mapping out possible histories of alien planets” and “exo-civilizations” in hopes of gaining “insights into what might happen to us” if we continue with our “energy-hungry industrial civilization.” I dunno, it seems there’s something to be said for a civilization that makes food and housing readily available and even gives you air conditioning, to say nothing of toilet paper–but really, should those amenities be provided to us peasants?
How do they study the effects of an imaginary problem, “Man-Made Climate Change,” on something that probably does not exist? I mean, you can’t observe it–right? You can’t do that old-time science thing of studying what’s really there–not if you want to study an alien civilization on another planet.
Not to worry! All you gotta do is “build a simple model for the evolution of a civilization with its planet” and study that. You study something that exists only in your imagination. Sort of like performing a rigorous scientific study of Oz.
Can it get any sillier than this? Aw, studyin’ nature, that’s boring, man! And hard, too! We’d much rather study our own computer models that we made up.
And these people want to control our lives.