(July 17, 2009 at 9:50 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:(July 16, 2009 at 7:16 pm)bozo Wrote: You usually are very positive with no room for doubt.You are a know-all with no tolerance for alternative opinions.
[expletive deleted] I am! Point out one (just one) claim I have made where I leave ZERO room for doubt.
(July 16, 2009 at 7:16 pm)bozo Wrote: You are old enough to have seen Dr. Strangelove.
So [expletive deleted] what? I don't even like the film.
(July 16, 2009 at 7:16 pm)bozo Wrote: Nonsense. You said that nuclear destruction doesn't matter cause the world will recover iover time.Not much comfort to the here and now and probably complete bollocks.
Actually no, I posed a question, I said, "And if we do go for it so what?" I then qualified it with, "It's not like the Earth will give an flying [expletive deleted] ... it will maybe shake and shiver a bit and then a few million years from now another species will be wondering what the strange race that once lived here was truly like." That was clearly speculative (a more distant philosophical planetary POV rather than one reflecting a rather dodgy species known locally as homo sapiens) and only a complete [expletive deleted] would claim that is me saying nuclear destruction doesn't matter! Of course it matters but the point you appear to have trouble grasping is that it ONLY matters to us!!!
BTW, can I ask you once again to NOT post huge chunks of text for relatively short answers.
Kyu
You said " maybe " MAD " is responsible for us still here ( in response to my claim that " despite MAD " etc.etc.
I maintain a nuclear strike would be countered by a retaliatory strike, as in the film.
I wasn't talking philosophy, just how disastrous for us here and now nuclear destruction would be.
I like to respond to what appears so that any newcomer can easily grasp the context.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
