On moon water, human expansion on mutation

[hedgetrimmer]

The potential for water on the moon raises an interesting question of whether a moonbase is now one step closer, without the necessity to ship water from Earth on a regular basis, the cost of which would be prohibitive

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[ulaire_daidoji]

The 33% of the brain in use thing is not factually correct. They did it on QI and Mythbusters. A very quick google threw up this : http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html

And to a very great extent we have thought our way out of a lot of the problems. This is highly entertaining and highly informative : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080#

[hedgetrimmer]

thanks for those links.

[marginal_jc]

I agree with a lot of what you wrote. Our resources our finite. I also believe in the law of large numbers. With enough people, some of them will be smart enough to figure out brilliant solutions to our problems. Whether that is down to mutation or just chance - I don't know. The story of the last 200 years is a huge increase in human population accompanied by a huge increase in quality of life for most of them - sort of the opposite of what our intuition might have expected.