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Author: Nella
There is one thing about our society that is really pissing me off. The way our society is supposed to work, is that people are paid for the amount of difference they are making in our world. This usually holds true; most people are paid what they diserve, but there is one occupation that is probably the most important part of our society who are paid pennies compared to some of the completely frivolous multi-million dollar jobs.
The people I am speaking of are the educators. The teachers. The people who spend their lives sharing the knowledge they have with others so that the next generation can build on that knowledge. Where would we be without them? We would still be in the stone age, because every time somebody died, everything they learned in their life would be lost, and the next generation would have to learn it all over again. Our finest scholars would still be stuck figuring out arithmetic. And look at what they’re paid! They get barely enough to support themselves, and even though they may not be working hard a some jobs, they are still the key to our society.
And the reason for raising teacher’s salaries have more benifits than just being fair to teachers. I’m not talking about a tiny little raise, I’m talking about making them some of the best paid people in the world. Suddenly, there is a huge amount of competition for who gets to be a teacher, because everyone wants that kind of money. So now only the good teachers are able to get jobs, and the crappy ones have to go live in a gutter! Now all the students are happy, too, because all their teachers are incredibly talented at what they do, and certain high school science teachers are out of a job! With the educators so much better, I’ll bet we would show giant leaps and bounds of our country’s test scores.
So where do we get the money for these huge raises? Here’s an idea: we take them out of the salaries of a class of people who are grossly overpaid, and aren’t helping our society along at all. Who comes to mind? How ’bout professional athletes? Let’s just switch the salaries of the athletes with the teacher’s salaries! I mean, how are athletes helping our society at all? Enterainment. They spend their lives training to play a game. A game who’s outcome matters not, and it’s purly so Americans can be entertained. Sure, they add to our culture, and give america a name, but really, they are paid millions of dollars to play a fucking game!!!
Anyway, my first act when I’m king of the world is raising teachers salaries. Thought I’d give you the heads up.
~Nella
Last night I went to see the film “What the Bleep Do We Know?” with a few of my very good chums. It brought up many topics that seemed perfect for discussion with this fine group of thinkers. All you guys that haven’t had better go and see it so you can be included in this discussion, or else you’ll be left in the dust.
Okay, my personal take on the movie: I am very interested in this revolutionary idea of quantum physics, though I have not yet been very well informed in the field until yesterday. So the first half of the movie was riveting for me, learning these new hypotheses and theories on the physics of probability. But I thought the second half about the bio-chemistry and cell receptors got very repetitive, and was mostly unnecessary. It was definitely an interesting idea about individual cells becoming addicted to certain chemicals, or emotions in the bloodstream, were talking about only that for much too long. It started to sound more like some dumb psychologist’s “self-help” video that wanted to sound all smart just by talking about the science and bio-chemistry of your emotions. I didn’t need that; I feel just fine about myself and don’t need any help controlling my emotions. But that’s just me; I can totally see how that would help some people, just not me. I want to hear more about how all of matter is really just a condensed thought.
I thought they did a very good job of tying all these interviews and explanations into the life of a speech-impedimented photographer. Didn’t seem like it would work at first, but it turned out to be pretty well executed.
A thought I had while watching the movie: When was the last really revolutionary scienctist? It was probably Einstei and his major work was in the sixties. I’m not talkin’ about someone that only people on High School science bowl teams recognize, I’m talking about the people that all the public, even the uneducated people know. Everyone knows einstein came up with E=mc2, everyone knows Galileo invented the telescope, and Newton discovered gravity, but if you asked a random person on the street who Enrico Fermi is, they probably wouldn’t be able to tell you that he’s credited for splitting the atom and creating the atomic bomb. So Fermi doesn’t count, but the others are known revolutionary scientists, and there haven’t been any of them since Einstein. I’ll betcha the next one discovers something about quantum physics. Quantum physics has so much potential to change the way we see the universe, but it’s still got quite a few kinks to work out. So it seems logical that whoever irons out these kinks and is able to make quantum physics real for everyone will be the next Einstein. Just a thought…
So now I want to go read a book on quantum physics. Does anyone know any good ones? I don’t want one that’s all math and proves everything in about six different ways that I don’t know anything about, but I also want one that’s not dumbed down so much it fails to stimulate my mind. If anyone has any recommendations, it would be greatly appreciated.
~Nella
I have recently had some intriguing insight on the topic of war. I hope everyone can go along with me observing it in a purly scientific way, not as a democrat who’s likely to be drafted the second we turn eighteen.
Okay, so this kinda ties in with my posts on Ismeal about everyone getting what they want without having to lift a finger. In today’s system, natural selection is utterly fucked up. It no longer exists! It doesn’t really matter if you’re strong, or smart, you’re still gonna be able to mate before you die. Every trait will continue to be passed on, not just the desirable ones. So what’s the answer? Well, my friends, the only remaining stand of natural selection that I can see today has gotta be war. Now, it certainly works nowhere near as well as it did in the good ol’ days where if you couldn’t fight off your preditors long enough to mate you got eaten. Now a days, instead of weak individuals getting picked off, it’s the weak countries. Compare WWII to a tribe living out in the jungle, and each country is an individual, and there’s a rise in the population of jaguars at the time. Well, they come sweeping though and kill all the countries who are too weak to fight back. But this really isn’t gonna help our species much in the long run, because countrys who are hugly successful sometimes have the weakest military, and if their doing the world good in other ways, like the advancement of science or industry, they certainly don’t deserve to be destroyed.
So I’m not pro-war. I’m pro-natural selection. And these days war is the only thing that’s looking anything like natural selection at all. So unless there’s some competition between individuals, then I think war is a neccesity to keep our weaker ones, be them individuals or countries, in check. Can anyone think of any other way to bring back natural selection?
Mmm…food for thought…
~Ian
Hey Fellas and Jackie and whoever else might be reading this,
I thought long and hard about what my first post would be on Andrew’s regal website. One of my first thoughts was to inform everyone about my brilliant plans to design and build an electro-magnetic canon, but can’t, for fear of my idea being stolen by someone with more initiative than I.
I think it would be opportune of me to use this space given graciously by andrew to erase any doubts that anyone out there has about the existance of extra-terrestrial bodies of marijuana. In addition to my being able to prove the existance of a single “planet of pot,” I can easily continue to prove an infinite amout of them. There really is no stopping me 
Okay, now, this proof will only work if everyone out there agrees that there is the possibility that a planet of pot exists. There is, and if you don’t think so, go talk to Mrs. Sorg. Now I’ve also run into a slight snag with people having a slightly misinformed fundamental understanding of the universe/space. I’m not sure exactly how accurate this is, but for reasons of understanding in this blog, I will refer to “space” as all of everything that’s out there, and “the universe” as this giant clump of matter that we believed to have originated from a singular point of matter. Now that we have everything straightened out, I can continue.
While our universe may be finite, Space is infinite. No matter how far you go, there will always be something more. It may be a void for a very, very, very long way, but no matter what you can keep going. People have often argued, “Well what if you reached the end?” It is possible that somewhere out there, there is an impenetrable barrier, but even so, there has got to be something beyond it. No matter how far you go, there will always be more.
I also know that there is more matter outside of our universe. The fact that matter occured here tells us that there is a possiblilty that matter can occur, therefore it will occur again somewhere due to the fact that space is indeed infinite. An infinite number of monkeys at typewriters will give you Shakespeare, an infinite space will give you matter. But not only will it give you matter, it will give you an infinite amount of matter. Lets keep thinking about it in terms of monkeys. You walk down the line of monkeys at type writers, and eventually you find one that’s got the complete works of Shakespeare. What if you kept going? Eventually you’d find another, and then another. With infinite monkeys, you’ve also got an infinite number of Shakespeares.
So we apply both these things to this aforementioned planet. If there is a possibility of the existance of a planet of pot, then eventually you’ll find one. In the infinite expanse of space, there’s going to be, not only one, but an infinite number of pot planets. Quod Eras Demonstratum.
This topic is probably better for discussion, so please comment. Any angry rants about how utterly wrong I am are most welcome. 
Out
∼Nella