Drop It

[HAROLD POSKANZER]

>> The thing that turns me off about the bomb is that it's a big 
>> waste of energy. That, and the fact that it turns so much 
>> interesting information into useless noise, so quickly.

>What about all those human beings that got turned into "useless" ash? Or 
>were they not "interesting"?

Interesting...I read jporter's message as mourning exactly that:  the complex, 
self-organising information nexus that was Hiroshima -- the layout of the 
buildings, the words in it's books, the habits of it's people, the DNA sequences 
of it's beings -- was instantly reset to 0.  That's an intense event.  It turns 
jporter off and makes bnolan angry and sad.

To me, calling real humans "interesting information" does not deny their 
humanity or pain.  (Some would say it doesn't deny their souls, either.)  We and 
everything around us is information.


-H