Incipient Vagabond--Verily

I already have a Yahoo account. I refuse to create a new one just to use Yahoo! Answers.

But I really want to jump in on the discussions!!!

So i'll speak my mind to you, empty sky... vast swirling thrashing intraglobal network of data streams... the most chaotic field ever to exist... for there is no directional flow, everything rushes in different directions simultaneously... yet somehow remains superefficient.

Some thoughts:

Here's my take on the hispanic/latino race question. The members online at Yah-Ans discussed this "resolved" question in terms of "social construct". This shows me that there is a major preoccupation in this society with human interactions on a more recent timetable, therein predominantly focusing on questions of oppression, dominance, globalization, identity, and feelings. And it reinforces my understanding of a common inability to see past our own self-righteous species and its supposed transcendence of nature.(yes i am simply reinforcing past prejudices in my own mind, but as long as i realize so, it's okay--right?)
But mine is a scientific mind, and as such i see us as animals, and still partaking in the cycle of things... so I read it as a question of evolution. I would say there was/is a course upon which South America was going in differentiating, adapting to its region! Life does that. Not even all hispanics/latinos look alike. But there is a differentiation, and who decides what makes a group different enough to be a new "race" or not? It is a source of identity, as there is much shared culture in the latino/hispanic, spanish-speaking hemisphere as in the "western" european/american hemisphere! caucasians, blacks, asians, hispanics... it works for me... different regions of the world, that have adapted definite physiologic differences from the rest of the world. I say if it isn't already a new race, it is was going there, and should be ALLOWED to be identified as a different race. It only makes sense considering its dominance of more than an entire continent and the fact that you can identify somebody of latin descent as different from white, as opposed to only the savvy (others of the race who have grown up with the race) differentiating Italians and Brits, or Koreans and Vietnamese.

In other, less controversial news:

NASA has developed semi-permeable bags (old news) that they are filling with sewage (newer news) and algae (newsest). They are producing biodiesel from it. They call the bags OMEGA!!! I find that remarkable, despicable, and hilarious. First, because i am remarking on it as we speak (so to speak [we need a meme to replace those phrases...]), second, in that they would associate the precious, worthy word that is omega with a sack of sewage, and third (which i'm not witty enough to do anything about myself) for the cultural potential of this. This is a major breakthrough!! I'll work on it so I can take credit for introducing it.... perhaps a running joke on products (or nutrients...?!) with the name Omega and the implications as junk food.... =D