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Mass extinction date set by science.

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Mass extinction date set by science.
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 21, 2017 at 11:33 am
In Los Angeles the saying used to go "Never trust any air you can't see!"
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 21, 2017 at 11:45 am
(September 21, 2017 at 4:40 am)Sal Wrote: I reckon around 2050, we'll have carbon dioxide reclamation plants siphoning carbon out of the atmosphere.

Only if someone can figure out how to get rich off of it.


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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 21, 2017 at 12:01 pm
So, has anyone seen canned air for sale yet?
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 21, 2017 at 12:05 pm
(September 21, 2017 at 11:45 am)Minimalist Wrote:
(September 21, 2017 at 4:40 am)Sal Wrote: I reckon around 2050, we'll have carbon dioxide reclamation plants siphoning carbon out of the atmosphere.

Only if someone can figure out how to get rich off of it.


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"When shit is worth money, the poor will be born without arseholes."

Though whoever said that never imagined reality shows.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 21, 2017 at 12:06 pm
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For people who are too lazy to blow dust away!
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 21, 2017 at 12:08 pm
(September 21, 2017 at 12:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: [Image: 40KJ49_AS01?$zmmain$]

For people who are too lazy to blow dust away!

I mean, the basic point of some of these products is to make bad/polluted air more tolerable to breathe. So we aren't far off: https://www.walmart.com/browse/household...93_1025739
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 21, 2017 at 12:11 pm (This post was last modified: September 21, 2017 at 12:13 pm by Aroura.)
(September 21, 2017 at 1:35 am)ignoramus Wrote: Yep. It's official folks... We've got 83 years to go before we put ourselves out of our own misery! Yay! Go humans!
Just thinking about all those starving people and children not having to suffer anymore! It brings a tear to my eye...

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandsci...spartandhp

Quote:Planet Earth appears to be on course for the start of a sixth mass extinction of life by about 2100 because of the amount of carbon being pumped into the atmosphere, according to a mathematical study of the five previous events in the last 540 million years.
Not that I disagree with the notion that we are headed for even WORSE mass extinction, but the 6th mass extinction already exists, and is currently underway.

Holocene Extinction

So the next one would technically be the 7th.  Would it even be different from the current, because although the root cause is the same (humans), the ultimate cause is not? (One is over hunting and direct habitat destruction via deforestation and such, the other would be more specifically from global climate change and ocean damage).

IDK, I think we are just going to see an acceleration of the current one, but it's not really NEW, per se....
Turns out Dr. Seuss was a prophet, then. Only his hopeful ending seems less than likely now.
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 21, 2017 at 12:32 pm
Maybe it is time for us to go extinct.  Perhaps evolution will do better next time.

From the "You Can't Make This Shit Up" Department.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trumps-n...-on-earth/

Quote:Trump’s NASA nominee wants to study climate change on Mars — but not on Earth

Stupidity Triumphs.
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 21, 2017 at 1:03 pm (This post was last modified: September 21, 2017 at 1:03 pm by Jackalope.)
(September 21, 2017 at 12:01 pm)Aroura Wrote: So, has anyone seen canned air for sale yet?

In a variety of colors and sizes...

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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 21, 2017 at 2:22 pm
(September 21, 2017 at 2:09 am)Aroura Wrote: So, intelligent enough to realize we are killing ourselves and many other things with us.  Not intelligent enough to stop the behaviors we know are causing it.

I'm not so sure there is any actual higher intelligence on earth at all.

We're addicted to industrialism, and like any addict, we know what we should do, but refuse to do it because of the moment now.

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