tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879044552984472733.post3549631035635794012..comments2024-03-19T10:38:49.562+01:00Comments on Merks' Meanderings: Predation, Parasitism, Commensalism, and Mutualism in the Garden and in the CommunityEd Merkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000982591510437551noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879044552984472733.post-12116978938862198172007-09-23T16:02:00.000+02:002007-09-23T16:02:00.000+02:00http://www.hbci.com/~tgort/jfk_rice.htmhttp://www.hbci.com/~tgort/jfk_rice.htmUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07401382440979008289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879044552984472733.post-49795500563883763292007-09-23T15:56:00.000+02:002007-09-23T15:56:00.000+02:00some lines from the JFK Speech at Rice University,...some lines from the JFK Speech at Rice University, Houston, Texas<BR/>September 12, 1962.<BR/><BR/>I'm not that clever at metaphoring, this is what comes to my mind sometimes when thinking about Eclipse & meta modeling challenges. <BR/><BR/>It is probably a bit far from all mutualism & commensalism stories, but as for me, it can fairly illustrates some of fears/hopes surrounding the Eclipse community at the moment.<BR/><BR/>...<BR/><BR/><BR/>"We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.<BR/><BR/>There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?<BR/><BR/>We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not only because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."<BR/><BR/>...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07401382440979008289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879044552984472733.post-60470471520195954972007-09-23T09:37:00.000+02:002007-09-23T09:37:00.000+02:00Yeah, I'm interested in who the leeches are, too.Yeah, I'm interested in who the leeches are, too.AlBluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06362201865553416948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879044552984472733.post-42447609226247069192007-09-22T21:29:00.000+02:002007-09-22T21:29:00.000+02:00Enjoyed your beautiful pictures and metaphor Ed. I...Enjoyed your beautiful pictures and metaphor Ed. <BR/>It would be interesting and entertaining to query people's opinions about who in the Eclipse community are the predators, the parasites, and the 'mutualists'. But too scary for some to actually be done, I guess.Scott Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15783631237186844143noreply@blogger.com