dispose

For whatever we do today in physics whether we release energy processes that ordinarily go on only in the sun, or attempt to initiate in a test tube the processes of cosmic evolution, or penetrate with the help of telescopes the cosmic space to a limit of two and even six billion light years, or build machines for the production and control of energies unknown in the household of earthly nature, or attain speeds in atomic accelerators which approach the speed of light, or produce elements not to be found in nature, or disperse radioactive particles, created by us through the use of cosmic radiation, on the earth—we always handle nature from a point in the universe Outside the earth. Without actually standing where Archimedes wished to stand (…), still bound to the earth through the human condition, we have found a way to act on the earth and within terrestrial nature as though we dispose of it from outside, from the Archimedean Point. And even at the risk of endangering the natural life process we expose the earth to universal, cosmic forces alien to nature's household. >> dispose outside earth risk

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dispose | BrE dɪˈspəʊz, AmE dəˈspoʊz | A transitive verb 1 (make inclined) dispose sb to sth jmdn. zu etw. veranlassen ▸ dispose sb to do sth jmdn. dazu veranlassen, etw. zu tun 2 (arrange) anordnen (Military) aufstellen ‹Truppen› B intransitive verb (determine course of events) entscheiden Entscheidungen treffen ▸ man proposes, God disposes (proverb) der Mensch denkt, Gott lenkt (proverb) PHRASAL VERB dispose of transitive verb 1 (do as one wishes with) dispose of sth/sb über etw./jmdn. frei verfügen 2 (kill, get rid of) beseitigen ‹Rivalen, Leiche, Abfall› erlegen, töten ‹Gegner, Drachen› ▸ she disposed of the tea leaves down the sink sie hat die Teeblätter in den Ausguss getan or den Ausguss hinuntergespült 3 (put away) wegräumen 4 (eat up) aufessen verputzen (informal) 5 (settle, finish) erledigen ▸ dispose of the business das Geschäftliche erledigen or regeln 6 (disprove) widerlegen