#1 new monograph-book: "Extinction of Homo sapiens from a science viewpoint"

Biological Extinction

(i) biological extinction due to loss of overall species diversity
(ii) biological extinction due to fundamental weakness in human DNA
which can only be fixed by a DNA that is beyond human DNA
(iii) biological extinction due to exponential increase in viral and
microbial plagues
(iv) biological extinction due to human cloning of a new species
superior to Homo sapiens
(v) biological extinction due to Homo sapiens becoming addicted to
economic self gain
rather than preservation of the entire species which is a form of
species Specialization
such as the fig wasp and the fig tree dependency. An example of this
is Global Warming.
And sometimes this species "Specialization" is obvious and apparent
such as
Global Warming but other times it could be hidden and irreversible and
not apparent
until too late. An example of this is the world's topsoil, should it
end up in the oceans
and where we lose so many plant species on land that both animal and
plant kingdom
are on the verge of extinction. And where Topsoil erosion intertwine
with Global Warming
as in the case of where people want to make ethanol so badly that they
accelerate topsoil erosion.

This chapter is very much more difficult than the other chapters,
because of
so much interrelationships and variables, although species extinction
is most
frequently due to competition between species.

So that humanity population on the rise would seem to say we are well
off
and that signal would suggest all is well. But as I said previously,
as our population
rises and extincts other plants and animals, that at some point, this
loss of diversity
would threaten the human species itself. And that the rise of insects
and microbes to
eat on humanity since most other animals are extincted would bring the
competition
between Homo sapiens and insects and microbes as a big fight. So is
humanity able
to compute at what population range makes humanity safe from
extinction due to
loss of species diversity. Is it at a human population of say 2
billion and would be
be prepared to shrink in population size to 2 million. Or are we
incapable of ever
controlling human population and that we will always overpopulate and
have wars
or famine or disease be the only trimming of human overpopulation. And
eventually
we extinct so many species that we face extinction ourselves.

Now there maybe a forced extinction of Homo sapiens due to the DNA.
Wherein some
future time we find the world environment not favorable to us because
of our genome
and where a clone of humanity to fix this DNA would be a new species
for which we cannot
reproduce. So in a sense, we clone a new species that is trans-human
in order to cope with
this future environment and if we do not clone this new species, well,
humanity goes extinct.
A possible scenario here would be that of a loss of the ozone layer
for instance and a loss
of Earth's magnetic field and where Solar Rays penetrate to the
surface and where it would
be deadly to spend much time out in the Sunlight. In such an
environment, cloning for a human
body to withstand that radiation maybe the best option.

Another example of this DNA weakness would be if cancer increases so
badly in the future
due to the dirty environment and loss of clean air and oxygen content
of air, that disease rates
increase so much that few babies are born normal and most people have
a diseased life. We see
this today in obesity and diabetes and autism and alzheimer and cancer
and heartattacks. Imagine
what the world looks like when there are 15 billion humans instead of
6 billion. It may so happen
that a normal person is rare and that most people are diseased the
moment they are borne. In such a
world, it may come to pass that most people opt for a cloning of those
that are normal with a hybrid mix
of genes that are an improvement over the old human genome. So it is
not a question of how long can
Homo sapiens last in the future, but how quickly Homo sapiens becomes
disgusted with our own genetic
code and does something to change and fix its shortcomings. And in so
doing go beyond Homo sapiens
and thus extinction of the old genome.

If I were asked for a gut opinion of how likely Humanity will become
extinct due to biological processes, I
would say it is about a 75 to 25 chance of going extinct. For just
today I heard the Pope was visiting South
America and telling them to keep on filling up the world with new
babies (and in my opinion, the Pope ought
to be put in jail and serve jail time for preaching to a world that is
overpopulated in humans to have more
babies), and that politicians here in the USA
are still spouting that Global Warming is not a problem. Our world
does not pay proper attention to science
and that the majority of humanity is nonscience. So in the future,
when it is critical that the human species
pay attention to science over an issue that could extinct us, well,
because the majority of people believe in
some nonsense rather than the science. So, my optimism runs thin.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

a_plutonium wrote:
Monograph-book: "Extinction of Homo sapiens from a science
viewpoint", Archimedes Plutonium, Internet published 1997-2007
(assimilated in May 2007 in sci.physics,sci.bio.misc,sci.astro)

Chapters of this monograph-book:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Astronomy extinction of Homo sapiens
Chapter 3: Biology extinction of Homo sapiens
Chapter 4: Geology extinction of Homo sapiens
Chapter 5: Physics extinction of Homo sapiens

Geology Extinction of Homo sapiens

I am not happy with the biology extinction chapter, but maybe time
away and a future revision
will help that chapter immensely.

I do like this chapter because it is rather straightforward. We
already know alot about Global
Warming and how that can threaten our extinction. If we just blithely
did nothing about Global
Warming and continued to fill the air with carbon compounds from
fossil fuels and increased human
population from 6 billion on upwards to 15 billion, I think we could
easily enter a crisis period of
possible extinction, chiefly due to loss of other species.

Just a few days ago I read a report about the loss of honeybees that
go to pollinate so much of the food
we eat. There is no telling if Global Warming left unchecked that the
extinction of so many plant and
animal species will threaten our own existence.

But I want to talk about some other geology issues that could easily
extinct our species and which have
little to no public awareness. Two subchapters on Topsoil Erosion and
Shifting Geomagnetism.

Subchapter : Topsoil Erosion

This topic is rarely given public awareness. But some day in the
future we will find our continents mostly barren
of topsoil and where most of it is underwater in the oceans. So what
would happen tomorrow if all the world's
topsoil were lifted up and dumped into the oceans? There would be alot
of plant life extinctions, perhaps nearly
all plants who require soil.

I once did an experiment where I dug up some clay that was 6 feet down
and put it into pots and to see if any
wind borne plant seed would sprout in that clay. There was no grass
but there were a few broadleaf weeds.

So, I wonder, if all the world's topsoil were dumped in the ocean, how
much plant life could live and survive on
what remains? I suspect this could trigger a extinction of humanity if
we ever find all our topsoil in the oceans.

Subchapter : Shift in the Geomagnetism of Earth

There was a brilliant PBS show on this topic telling us that at some
moments in geological time the geomagnetism
shifts and thus allowing for deadly Solar Rays to penetrate.
Astronomers love to point to the Moon or Mars
and say that they cannot support life because they have no magnetic
field to shield them from the deadly
Solar Rays. Shifts have occured in past geological times. So that if
for some reason this geomagnetic field
were to shut down, well, that is a serious threat to humanity and
could lead to extinction.

But what about several of these dynamics working simultaneously? What
about Global Warming working with
Topsoil Erosion. We have a case of that at the moment when we think
about hyperfarming for corn to
produce ethanol. Where we accelerate topsoil erosion. I do not have
exact figures but it is said that the world
loses about x number of hectares of topsoil per day that ends up in
the oceans. In hyperfarming the number
may be 10X increased.

So that in the future it is easy to see a world that has the dual
problem of Global Warming and the retrieval of
Topsoil that ends up in the oceans.

My answer to both Global Warming and Topsoil is that the planet needs
to have human population in the range
of 1 to 2 billion where both problems are kept under check. But to
have 15 billion humans, both problems
run amok and could lead to a extinction of humanity.

Now I doubt there is a link between Global Warming and Geomagnetism
Shift. However, some years back
I did pursue the idea that lightening bolt strikes affect the internal
core of Earth and its dynamo. So that if
Global Warming increases, then also Lightening Flashes increase as the
weather becomes that much
more filled with energy. So maybe as Global Warming increases, then
the changes of Geomagnetic Shift
increases for the worst. I tried doing a experiment of running
electrostatic pulses into a running motor but
that experiment was inconclusive because I did not want to ruin the
motor. My guess is that the pulses will
eventually destroy the motor windings of its lacquer coating. Whether
there is an analogous windings in the
Earth's core and that lightening flashes change the dynamo of the
core, is unknown to me at this moment.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies