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CHAPTERS
RA TIONAL THINKING
CONTENTS (I OF VI)
R.NASH
PAGE
1 GLOBAL WARMING 15
EXPLAINS THE REASONS WHY GLOBAL WARMING, TRIGGERED BY THE ACTIVITIES OF
MAN, IS NOW UNSTOPPABLE. DISCUSSES THE IMPLICATIONS, THE CHANGES TO BE
EXPECTED AND WHY THE MOST IMPORTANT EFFECT WILL BE THE MIGRATION
OFBILLIONS OFPEOPLE. 2 THE OZONE LAYER 37
DISCUSSES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE OZONE LAYER, THE CAUSE OF ITS REDUCTION
AND WHY WE CAN NOW STOP WORRYING ABOUT IT. 3 THE HUMAN POPULATION
EXPLOSION 40
WHY THE POPULATION EXPLOSION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR AFFECTING THE
FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE. GIVES RATIONAL PROJECTIONS AND WHY THE WORID
POPULATION IS LIKELY TO REACH A MAXIMUM OF 20 BILLION OR MORE. 4 THE
FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE 48
COVERS THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE - WORID ECONOMICS, RECESSIONS, POTENTIAL FOR
WARS ETC, THEN THE CHANGES WHICH WILL ENSUE FROM THE EFFECTS OF FAILURE
OF OIL SUPPLIES, DEPLETION OF OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES AND MINERALS AND
HOW THERE MUST EVENTUALLY BE A DRASTIC
AND TOTAL CHANGE IN THE ECONOMICS OF NATIONS AND BUSINESSES. DISCUSSES
THE UPHEAVALS THAT WILL ENSUE FROM THE FORCED MIGRATIONS OF BILLIONS OF
PEOPLE AS GLOBAL WARMING GRADUALLY MAKES TROPICAL COUNTRIES TOO HOT FOR
GENERAL HUMAN HABITATION.
SPECULATES ON CONDITIONS 1000 YEARS FROM NOW AFTER THE CREST OF THE WAVE
OF HUMAN INDUSTRIALISATION AND POPULATION FINALLY BREAKS AND THE
SURVIVORS HAVE TO ADAPT TO A HOT AND IMPOVERISHED PLANET. 5 IN THE
BEGINNING 76
DISCUSSES IDEAS OF WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN BEFORE THE BIG BANG AND HOW IT MAY
HAVE COME ABOUT THAT THIS UNIVERSE IS SO INCREDIBLY FINE TUNED TO ALLOW
THE CREATION OF GALAXIES, STARS, PLANETS AND EVEN LIFE. 6 LIFE AND
EVOLUTION 83
DISCUSSES HOW LIFE ON EARTH MAY HAVE STARTED, FACETS OF EVOLUTION, THE
EFFECTS OF MASS EXTINCTIONS AND DEMONSTRATES HOW MODEM COMPLEX ORGANISMS
HAVE MOVED BEYOND SIMPLE DARWINIAN EVOLUTION.
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CONTENTS (II OF VI)
R.NASH
7 DINOSAURS 108
DISCUSSES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DINOSAURS AND MAMMALS AND HOW
DINOSAURS DOMINATED THE EARTH FOR A HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLION YEARS
BECAUSE THEY WERE SIMPLY SUPERIOR TO MAMMALS. ONLY THE GIANT CHICXULUB
ASTEROID STRIKE ALLOWED MAMMALS TO TAKE OVER THE EARTH AND BECOME
SUPREME. 8 ENVIRONMENT 125
HOW THE GREATEST EVER ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON THIS EARTH WAS CAUSED BY
LIFE ITSELF. THE EFFECTS OF ASTEROID AND COMET STRIKES, MASSIVE
VO1CANISM, ICE AGES AND, FINALLY, THE EFFECTS OF THE LATEST IMPENDING
GREAT CHANGE THAT HUMAN ACTIVITY HAS TRIGGERED. 9 AGEING 137
AGEING IS NOT A SIMPLE WEARING OUT. IT IS A DELIBERATE PROCESS,
PROGRAMMED INTO THE GENES, LINKED TO THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES.
DISCUSSES HOW WE MIGHT FIND WAYS TO INTERFERE WITH THE PROCESS AND
EXTEND HUMAN LIFE TO, MAYBE, 150 YEARS OR MORE. 10 GENETIC ENGINEERING
145
DISCUSSES THE POTENTIAL AND THE DANGERS OF GENETIC ENGINEERING. HOW IT
WILL BE ESSENTIAL IF THE WORLD IS TO FEED THE BURGEONING BILLIONS WHO
WILL LIVE SEVENTY YEARS FROM NOW. 11 CANCER 152
DESCRIBES WHAT CANCER ISO HOW WE ARE NOT RESPONDING TO THE MENACE OF
CANCER AS WE SHOULD AND HOW A SIMPLE CHANGE OF TACTICS, WITHOUT ANY NEW
DRUGS OR MEDICATIONS, COULD SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES. 12 KURU, BSE, HIV,
AND FLU 159
DESCRIBES THE LINK BETWEEN KURU, BSE AND CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE. THE
DANGERS OF EATING BUSH MEAT AND WHY THE THREAT OF H5N 1 FLU IS NOT AS
IMMEDIATE AND MENACING AS MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE. 13 THE BRAIN 165
COMMENTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRAIN FROM ITS SIMPLE BEGINNINGS. THE
REMARKABLE CAPABILITIES OF PINHEAD SIZE INSECT BRAINS TO THE MOST
COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL DEVICE YET KNOWN - THE HUMAN BRAIN. SPECULATES ON
FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS.
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RATIONAL THINKING
CONTENTS (III OF VI)
R.NASH
14 THE SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND 176
EXAMINES THE STUNNING POTENTIAL AND CAPABILITIES OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS
MIND - A REMARKABLY FREE AND INDEPENDENT THINKING ENTITY OPERATING WITH
AND ALONGSIDE THE CONSCIOUS MIND. CAPABLE OF SUBTLY INFLUENCING
EVERYTHING YOU DO AND WITH STARTLING
INVENTIVE AND CREATIVE POWERS. STATES HOW THE HUMAN RACE MUST STUDY AND
UNDERSTAND THE SUB-CONSCIOUS IF THE PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE ARE TO HAVE ANY
HOPE OF LIVING AND WORKING TOGETHER IN PEACE AND HARMONY. 15 MEMORY 191
WE TAKE IT FOR GRANTED AND HAVE ALMOST NO IDEA OF HOW IT WORKS BUT IT IS
THE MOST VITAL OF ALL MENTAL PROCESSES. WITHOUT MEMORY, EVOLUTION BEYOND
THE BACTERIAL STAGE WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE. 16 THE LOTTERY OF LIFE
201
WHAT ARE THE ODDS AGAINST YOU BEING YOU? FAR GREATER THAN YOU THINK AND
THE WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES IS MERE MINDLESS STUPIDITY. 17 CONSCIOUS
COMPUTERS AND ROBOTS 206 A GENUINELY CONSCIOUS COMPUTER OR ROBOT IS, AT
THE PRESENT TIME,
PURELY SCIENCE FICTION BUT IT WILL HAPPEN IF SCIENTISTS EXPERIMENT AND
IMPROVE LONG ENOUGH. THEN WE SHALL HAVE OBLIGATIONS. 18 SLAVERY 211
WE TEND TO THINK OF SLAVES CHAINED TO SHIPS DECKS - BEING TRANSPORTED,
OR AS GALLEY SLAVES. BUT THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SLAVERY. 19
WHA T IS ART? 216
WE ALL HAVE OUR OWN IDEAS BUT RATIONAL THOUGHT SUGGESTS WE HAVE, AT
LEAST PARTIALLY, LOST OUR WAY. 20 FREE WILL AND THE NATURE OF TIME 222
IF EINSTEIN WAS RIGHT, NONE OF US HAS FREE WILL - WE ONLY THINK WE DO.
BUT I HAVE A SUGGESTION. 21 FLIGHT 234
IF YOU STUDY AERODYNAMICS IT WILL ALL SEEM VERY COMPLICATED. IN ACTUAL
FACT IT IS EXTREMELY SIMPLE. 22 MONEY 247
MONEY IS ONE OF THE BEST INVENTIONS EVER. LOVE OF MONEY IS NOT THE ROOT
OF ALL EVIL. IT IS A DRIVING FORCE THAT IMPROVES THE WORLD. AN
UNDERSTANDING OF MONEY IS EASIER THAN MOST PEOPLE THINK.
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CONTENTS (IV OF VI)
R. NASH
23 WEALTH 278
WEALTH IN ALL ITS FORMS IS, IN THE END, BENEFICIAL. IT IS FAR BETTER
THAN POVERTY AND THE BILLIONAIRE BENEFITS THE POOREST IN THE LAND; EVEN
WHEN HE AND OTHER DON T REA E IT.
24 THE DOTCOM/TECHNO FINANCIAL CRASH 285 THE NATURE OF FINANCIAL BUBBLES
AND WHY GOVEMMENTS IN THE 21 SI CENTURY SHOULD PREVENT THEM. TO FAIL TO
DO SO IS INCOMPETENCE -
A FAILURE TO GOVEM.
25 THE GREATEST SHUTTLE DISASTER 292 THE WHOLE FUTURE OF SPACE
EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST HAS BEEN CHANGED. MANY DREAMS WILL NOW REMAIN
AS MERELY DREAMS. ONLY LIMITED AND VERY EXPENSIVE VENTURES WILL NOW BE
POSSIBLE - UNLESS
SOMEONE CAN CRACK NASA S ONE GREAT PROBLEM. THE REAL SHUTTLE DISASTER
EXPLAINED.
26 PRESIDENT BUSH S MO ON BASE AND MANNED TRIP TO MARS 301
THE MOON BASE COULD BECOME AN ENDLESS DRAIN ON AMERICAN RESOURCES AND
THE MARS MISSION A VERY EXPENSIVE AND RISKY SCALE UP OFTHE MOON LANDING.
BUT IT WILL KEEP I00,000 WORKERS BUSY.
27 COLONISING THE STARS AND THE GENESIS SPACECRAFT 309
WHY HUMAN BEINGS WILL NEVER EVER GO AND COLONISE PLANETS AROUND OTHER
STARS. BUT THERE JUST MIGHT BE A BETTER AND MORE WONDERFUL WAY.
28 EXTRA TERRESTRIAL LIFE 326
WHY LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS THAN EARTH IS PROBABLY COMMON - BUT AN
INTELLIGENT ET IS LIKELY TO BE VERY, VERY RARE AND VERY FAR AWAY AND
WHY, IN FACT, THIS COULD BE EXTREMELY GOOD NEWS.
29 SPACE ELEVATOR 339
TO BUILD ASPACE ELEVATOR WOULD REQUIRE A MATERIAL 200 TIMES STRONGER
THAN OUR FINEST STEEL - AND EVEN IF WE MANAGED TO PRODUCE THAT - ASPACE
ELEVATOR STILL WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE.
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CONTENTS (V OF VI)
R. NASH
30 WAR AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS 344
COVERS THE DISCOVERIES, INVENTION AND DESIGN OF ATOMIC WEAPONS, MY
PERSONAL INTEREST FROM BEING A SCHOOLBOY OF 15 DURING WORLD WAR TWO WHO
LEARNED OF ATOMIC ENERGY AND EVEN HOW THE HIROSHIMA BOMB WOULD BE
CONSTRUCTED - AT A TIME WHEN THE MANHATTAN PROJECT WAS TOP SECRET. MY
THOUGHTS, IN 1962, DURING
THE CUBA CRISIS AS I SAW, FROM LESS THAN A MILE AWAY, THREE THOR
MISSILES, EACH CARRYING A ONE MEGATON HYDROGEN BOMB ON THE NOSE,
STANDING UPRIGHT FULLY FUELLED WITH LOX BOILING OFF, NEEDING ONLY THE
PUSH OF A BUTTON TO SEND THEM ON THEIR WAY. LATER, IN THE
1980S, WITH THERMO-NUCLEAR WAR ON THE BRINK OF INEVITABILITY, WONDERING
IF EVEN I MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING TO HELP PREVENT IT. 31 THE
WINDSCALE ACCIDENT 397
FR NEARLY FIFTY YEARS THE DETAILS OF THE NUCLEAR ACCIDENT AT WINDSCALE
WERE TOP SECRET. BUT, FOR MOST OF THAT TIME, I KNEW ENOUGH TO BE SURE WE
HAD ESCAPED A COLOSSAL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT SIMILAR TO CHERNOBYL - BY A
HAIRSBREADTH. 32 NUCLEAR AND FUSION POWER 408
DISCOVERY, DESIGN AND DETAILS OF FISSION AND FUSION REACTORS. OUR
RADIOACTIVE LEGACY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. WHY FUSION POWER REACTORS ARE
UNLIKELY TO BECOME COMMONPLACE FOR AT LEAST 50 YEARS. 33 RADIOACTIVE
WASTE DISPOSAL AND REACTOR
DECOMMISSIONING 415
DISCUSSES THE MOST RATIONAL WAY TO DISPOSE OF EXISTING HIGH LEVEL WASTE
AND A MORE SENSIBLE WAY TO BUILD NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS IN THE FUTURE
WHICH WOULD DRASTICALLY SIMPLIFY DECOMMISSIONING. 34 9/11 AND THE
BUSHIBLAIR RESPONSE 420
EXPLAINS WHY THE CREATION OF INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS ON TERRORISM
(THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS), THE MILITARY INTERVENTION IN AFGHANISTAN
AND EVEN THE INVASION OF IRAQ WERE RATIONAL ACTIONS IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES
THAT EXISTED AT THE TIME.
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CONTENTS (VI OF VI)
R. NASH
35 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT 428
RECOUNTS THE AUTHOR S PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND ARGUES THAT LIMITED
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT CAN BE EFFECTIVE WHEN APPLIED TO MANY FOOLISH
YOUNGSTERS AND COULD LEAD TO BETTER EDUCATION (THROUGH IMPROVED
ATTENTION AND CONCENTRATION) AND CORRECTION OF
ERRANT TEENAGERS BEFORE THEY GET MORE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN CRIME. 36 THE
KILLING OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY 439 ANALYSES THE ASSASSINATION AND SHOWS
THAT A FEW SIMPLE TESTS WOULD INDICATE WHETHER OSWALD DID OR DID NOT
KILL KENNEDY AND IF
THERE WAS, INDEED, A CONSPIRACY. 37 WATER DIVINING AND DOWSING 443
CALLS FOR SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF DOWSING AND WATER DIVINING
AND DESCRIBES THE AUTHOR S PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. 38 DEVOLUTION OF
SCOTLAND AND WALES 449 CONSIDERS THE CREATION OF THE SCOTTISH AND WELSH
ASSEMBLIES AND
FOLLOWS THE PROCESS TO ITS LOGICAL AND RATIONAL CONCLUSION. 39 GREAT
DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS 453 DESCRIBES THE MOST IMPORTANT INVENTIONS
OF THE HUMAN RACE FIRSTLY THE INVENTIONS THAT GAVE US THE PLANET AND,
FINALLY, THE
CREATION OF THE THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB. 40 THINK FOR YOURSELF 461
MOST OF US THINK WE ALREADY DO BUT ANALYSIS INDICATES THIS IS USUALLY
FAR FROM THE CASE.
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