A Standardized Pattern in Nature

I read a study of the development of human societies. One of the themes that has occurred over and over throughout history is: one group encountering another slightly less technologically advanced; killing them all and taking their shit.

The decimation of the New World and other european imperialization are excellent examples, though it has been going on long before then. I imagine early modern humans, being taller quicker and smarter, when encountered, would have killed off the Neanderthals and any other protohuman species.

I also remembered that this same phenomena occurs in nature where a nonnative species is introduced. If it doesn’t die immediately, they quickly and easily take over. A similar thing happens in the germ world; mold, infection etc.

This seems to be a standardized pattern in nature.

My conclusion to all of this is that Earth has not yet been visited by other beings from another planet.

The book, BTW: Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel.

Nosy Banana

Hair

Most animals have a consistent fur. Few on the planet grow hair longer in one area of their body than another. Lions, horses, goats, elephants, humans, squirrels and more. Humans are the only ones trimming their fur.

Many New World tribes grow their hair throughout their lives. Longer is a sign of status; to cut it is analogous to castration. Many other groups respect long hair as showing wisdom and commitment to a cause.

Everyone who grows their hair to the maximum knows the philosophy being the naturality.

Women have the option, in this era , to wear their hair any way possible. Many do not appreciate the gravity of the accomplishment.

Some mammals are relatively hairless. Pigs, whales, humans, hippos, Chihuahuas, and more. There are many theories for this strangeness, but none conclusive and scientifically accepted.

Pleasantly Breezy

Chemicals like to organize.

Water molecules attract each other and flow together. Rivers form. It is not a dispersed sheet of water over the land. Even as a gas, the mass of more dispersed molecules stays together in clouds large and small. Water molecules stick together and flow even in solid glaciers. The extreme state of temperature and the extreme amount of mass.

The physical and electrical shape of water molecules lead them to become a nearly universal solvent. The electricity in its V shape separates certain types of molecules from others.

I think this V organization of the 2 hydrogens and 1 oxygen is the cause for the shape of snowflakes.

Beyond water:

Most molecules only react or combine with specific molecules. There are many things that don’t form chemically; the other things are inevitable.

Friendly Showerhead

Shapes of Actions

The shapes of river deltas resemble the shapes of plotted actions of many human endeavors. Traffic for example. The cars flow together for faster traverse. Then trickle apart as the outflow slows nearer to a destination. Also paths worn by human and non-human animals. Check out the natural flow through the grass which develops on a college campus. And all of these particles are somewhat consciously directed. Water molecules or blood flow are probably not conscious.

The shape of a river – small and dispersed lines converging to a larger mass; then diffusing near the end of its cycle – is a common natural shape, reflected in tree roots, trunk, then branches, vascular systems, lightning and fulgurites, …

Changes Through Growth

Being a Hedonist

Being a hedonist frees me to indulge in many things. Yet jewelry and religion are still too decadent for me.

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