…that one could run amok and not hit anything. But not anymore. From two billion to eight in my lifetime. Wow. That’s a lot. It’s a wonder that we haven’t tilted over and rolled right on out of our orbit. I wonder if that’s possible? I guess equal disbursement has steadied it. But still, all of the continents are not equally distributed around the globe. So I go back to my original question; why have we not tilted out?
I remember watching an episode of West Wing and they were talking about a snow storm, and CJ kept talking about “…an order of magnitude…” for the snow accumulation. I wonder if it’s the same for the tilt effect of the earth. You know what I’m talking about, it’s like a CD in the player, if it’s out of balance, it starts to wobble and then tries to escape its containment in the device and shatters into thousands of pieces. Maybe what will happen is that eventually the order of magnitude gets to be such that we start to wobble and then poof, one day we shatter into a million pieces flying all over the universe.
I know it doesn’t make any sense, but you never know. Life is like that. You’re just going along, running amok, if you will, then boom. Nine billion was just one billion too many. And then we wobble. Stranger things have happened you know. Maybe that’s what earthquakes are, the beginning wobbles of the earth trying to regain equilibrium.
In any case, if we keep going, we’re bound to find out the limits, and what then? We see how mankind does with stepping back from the brink with climate change. Do you think anything will be different? Mankind, what an interesting experiment.
Anyway, go run amok while you can.
Jaunty-Rabbit 