Pridal - Aventure dag 29

At Sea fra Tauranga til Wellington forbi Napier, på den Sydøstlige del af Nordøen.

Det blev dagen, hvor vi løb ind i en storm på vindstyrke 10, men da den kom lige forfra på næsen af ”CrySy” fortsatte arrangementerne som planlagt. Det var lidt surrealistisk. Vi havde ”Pingvin” dinner og Captain’ party for de nye gæster, der stod på i Auckland, så vi sad i Spisesalen på 5. dæk midtskibs og så de kæmpemæssige bølger rulle forbi vinduerne, uden at porcelænet så meget som rørte på ”sig”, som Dirch ville have udtrykt det. Vore Stabilisatorer klarede det med bravour.

Jeg troede, at de helt havde glemt, at det var min fødselsdag, men da vi kom til desserten, var der pludselig stor fødselsdagskage med lys i til hele bordet. Jeg var pludselig populær, men det varede ikke ret længe, for vi har i gennemsnit mere end 2 fødselsdage pr. dag. Vi er ca. 900 gæster om bord, så statistisk er det sådan!

Det efterfølgende show, som fandt sted i teatersalen i næsen af skibet, blev ændret til et musik og sang show, danserne holdt fri. Det var for risikabelt for dem at foretage de spring og bevægelser, som de normalt disker op med.

I løbet af dagen nåede jeg 2 enrichment program lektioner.

1)    ”The sighs of Ruamoko (Maori ernes Vulcan God): Volcanoes & Earthquakes in New Zealand.

2)    “Homo Sapiens 2.0: Genetic Enhancement and the future of Humanity”, and The human genetic Engineering revolution.

The Lecturer Jamie Metzl, who talked about Genetic Enhancement and the future of Humanity, and the Human Genetic Engineering Revolution, joined suddenly our dinner table that evening. Very exciting a Ph.D., in Asian History from Oxford, a JD from Harvard Law School and a Curricula Vitae a mile long was available for discussion right beside us.
Of course, I could not refrain from asking him about, if he had read the two novels, Brave New World of Aldous Huxley, and 1984 of George Orwell, and what he would think about being given a role as a gamma in their universe?
He got off too easy, as he denied having read those two novels. I could feel he was uneasy with that answer.
I think it is very unlikely that a doctor talking about the perfect alfa human being, he wants to create by a revolution in Human Genetic Engineering, should not have read about the consequences this could have for people, who did not have a chance to have their genes updated to new alfa standards, but were left as gammas.
Well he is still at the table, but moving further away from me, so it is getting harder to hear what he replies.

Jamie and Jens