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Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 2:09 pm
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Quote:The sun won’t die for 5 billion years, so why do we have only 1 billion years left on Earth?
Quote:The Earth is a complex system – and no model is perfect. However, it seems likely that we have no more than a billion years left for life to thrive on our planet.
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RE: Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 2:15 pm
I'm kinda bummed about that. If life gets killed of on earth now apart from microbes, it might not be enough to evolve an intelligent species again before everything gets fried.
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RE: Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 2:17 pm
Well, if extinction was good enough for the dinosaurs, it's good enough for the religionists, too.
Those of us and our descendants who accept science will have long since left the planet by then.
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RE: Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 2:18 pm
We have plenty of time to colonize the galaxy. Last 10 million years our kind spent most the time banging rocks together, the next 10 million years might be a little more productively spent.
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RE: Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 2:20 pm
I wonder how allah and jesus will reward all their devoted followers who get themselves buried properly when the earth they are buried in ceases to exist? I imagine they'll invent a magical solution.
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RE: Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 3:04 pm
Say goodbye to the Kabba, Mecca, Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and all the other sources of religious fuckwittery.
Adios, muchachos!
If Jesus/Allah freaks still exist then, they will no doubt include solar incineration as "part of the plan" all along. It's just taking a good long while.
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RE: Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 3:14 pm
(February 12, 2015 at 2:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/the-s...-on-earth/
Quote:The sun won’t die for 5 billion years, so why do we have only 1 billion years left on Earth?
Quote:The Earth is a complex system – and no model is perfect. However, it seems likely that we have no more than a billion years left for life to thrive on our planet.
Because there are lots of other earth hazards and solar system hazards like meteors and comets that are very likely to cause damage way before the sun burns out. But right now at this moment in time humans seem to be our own worst enemy with pollution and lack of good resource management.
Our burning CO2 is currently our biggest and self inflicted problem. We do even if we fix that, need to work on a meteor defense system. But life even if we go extinct will go on just like it did after the dinos died. We will be out of the picture way before the sun burns out.
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RE: Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 3:37 pm
I hope we expand into the galaxy in the future, I want it to be like Mass Effect, but without....you know.....the reapers
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RE: Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 4:02 pm
(February 12, 2015 at 3:37 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: I hope we expand into the galaxy in the future, I want it to be like Mass Effect, but without....you know.....the reapers
If you had a choice of SF universe, which nemesis would you choose? Those guys from Firefly look fun...
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RE: Well, fuck...may as well just kill ourselves!
February 12, 2015 at 4:10 pm
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(February 12, 2015 at 2:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/the-s...-on-earth/
Quote:The sun won’t die for 5 billion years, so why do we have only 1 billion years left on Earth?
Quote:The Earth is a complex system – and no model is perfect. However, it seems likely that we have no more than a billion years left for life to thrive on our planet.
If in 1.0 billion years from now, no life whatsoever from earth have managed to travel up to 0.9999 billion lights years from earth in every direction and found, made or stole at least one second home for parts of the earth's biosphere that is better than earth itself had ever been somewhere within that 4.18 octillion cubic light years of space, then I would say our planet's biosystem produced absolutely nothing of worth and therefore its end would be good riddance.
BTW, some other study suggest life on earth may have as much as 2.8 billion more years.
(February 12, 2015 at 2:17 pm)Beccs Wrote: Well, if extinction was good enough for the dinosaurs, it's good enough for the religionists, too.
Those of us and our descendants who accept science will have long since left the planet by then.
The problem is where as religionists would have gleefully consigned the scentifically minded to fury oblivion, the scientifically minded tend to be soft hearted, and would try to preserve the religionistic bacillus on humanitarian grounds.
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