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  Ensuring recovery of a form of cosmic debt? Public debt : Over the decades of the past century humanity has adopted practices whereby nations borrow financially, most notably from each other -- thereby incurring  debts  on which interest is paid, in anticipation of some process of  debt recovery .  Public indebtedness  of this kind is measured in trillions of dollars and as a percentage of GDP ( List of countries by public debt ;  List of countries by future gross government debt ). The Economist  offers an interactive  World Debt Comparison: the global debt clock . An update of the IMFâ-'s  Global Debt Database  shows that total global debt (public plus private) reached US$188 trillion at the end of 2018, up by US$3 trillion when compared to 2017. The global average debt-to-GDP ratio (weighted by each countryâ-'s GDP) edged up to 226 percent in 2018. Jeff Desjardins,  $69 Trillion of World Debt in One Infographic ,  Vis...

  Potential universal inquiry into human treatment of other species The following argument is necessarily purely speculative. It invites development through speculative media presentations, as has been done with  Avatar  and other movies. Movies of that kind have relished the depiction of extraterrestrials of every form -- with an emphasis on the humanoid. Poetic justice on a universal scale would however be better served if any  contact was undertaken by extraterrestrials of a form corresponding to that with which humans were especially familiar. Morphological transformation : The possibility can be argued most effectively in the light of the illustrations famously presented by  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson  regarding the relationship between forms of animals ( On Growth and Form , 1917/1942). Those below indicate the possibility that proportional increase or decreases along particular dimensions -- through some radical analogue of shear mapping -- might char...

  Human deep cultural memory of universal associations? There is a faint possibility that humans have an unrecognized relation to the universe which surrounds them -- suggested by the manner in which humans have related to the stars and constellations over millennia, and the process of naming those features. This may well have been reinforced by the elaboration of memorable mythical tales, as suggested to a remarkable degree by the argument of  Joseph Campbell  ( The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: myth as metaphor and as religion , 1986), or perhaps as anticipated by  Henryk Skolimowski  ( The Participatory Mind: a new theory of knowledge and of the universe , 1994). Deprecation by mainstream science of this possibility ignores the discoveries which scientists of the future may make -- given the millennia of human creativity which could be usefully imagined. The explanatory closure implied by any hypothetical  Theory of Everything  of physics may be obl...

  Anticipation of Judicial Inquisition of Humans by Extraterrestrials Introduction In the midst of a global pandemic widely framed as a war, there is a strong case for recognizing both the civilian fatalities and those whose lives are at stake on a daily basis -- in order to reduce the risk to greater numbers of humans. Humans are called upon by authorities to take shelter in their homes to avoid any risk (Cowering for One's Country in the War against Coronavirus, 2020). It is therefore appropriate to honour those -- effectively "on the front line" -- who are dying in far greater numbers in the hope of ending the pandemic as soon as possible. As in conventional warfare, they have little choice in performing this duty, having been conscripted and trained to that end. In the spirit of the cenotaphs in many small towns in the former British Empire, the concern here follows from the inscription on those monuments: Lest We Forget. Beyond the immediate focus in that regard is a...