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Mass extinction date set by science.
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 7:16 am
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 8:57 am
Why should I think that our species can avoid a mass extinction? We are not that special.
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 9:04 am
(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!

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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 9:52 am
Speak for yourself. I plan to live forever, or die trying.
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 9:55 am
(September 25, 2017 at 9:52 am)Cyberman Wrote: Speak for yourself. I plan to live forever, or die trying.

I believe I was speaking for myself. I didn't say "we'll all be dead by then." Rather, I said, "I'll be dead by then."

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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 9:58 am
(September 25, 2017 at 8:57 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Why should I think that our species can avoid a mass extinction? We are not that special.

Until now they've rare been self-inflicted.
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 9:58 am (This post was last modified: September 25, 2017 at 10:00 am by TheBeardedDude.)
(September 25, 2017 at 8:57 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Why should I think that our species can avoid a mass extinction? We are not that special.

We are the only known species that is aware of the potential for its own extinction, and the only known species that is capable of technologically innovating solutions to problems that might otherwise result in the extinction of a species. We have the ability to make accurate predictions about future outcomes, and if one of those potential outcomes is our extinction, then it is possible to avoid it if planned for.

*Mass extinction refers to the rapid loss of taxa across numerous genera, families, orders, classes, and phyla. So your sentence should read "Why should I think that our species can avoid extinction?"
(September 25, 2017 at 9:58 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(September 25, 2017 at 8:57 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Why should I think that our species can avoid a mass extinction? We are not that special.

Until now they've rare been self-inflicted.

I don't know of any "self-inflicted" mass extinctions. 

And even among individual extinctions, I don't know of any species that inflicted an extinction upon themselves through heavy modification of their environment.
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 10:03 am
(September 25, 2017 at 9:55 am)Lutrinae Wrote:
(September 25, 2017 at 9:52 am)Cyberman Wrote: Speak for yourself. I plan to live forever, or die trying.

I believe I was speaking for myself. I didn't say "we'll all be dead by then." Rather, I said, "I'll be dead by then."

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Wow, joke failure. Never mind.
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 10:06 am (This post was last modified: September 25, 2017 at 10:10 am by Kitan Etos.)
(September 25, 2017 at 10:03 am)Cyberman Wrote: Wow, joke failure. Never mind.

I did get the joke.

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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 10:15 am
(September 25, 2017 at 9:58 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote:
(September 25, 2017 at 8:57 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Why should I think that our species can avoid a mass extinction? We are not that special.

We are the only known species that is aware of the potential for its own extinction, and the only known species that is capable of technologically innovating solutions to problems that might otherwise result in the extinction of a species. We have the ability to make accurate predictions about future outcomes, and if one of those potential outcomes is our extinction, then it is possible to avoid it if planned for.

*Mass extinction refers to the rapid loss of taxa across numerous genera, families, orders, classes, and phyla. So your sentence should read "Why should I think that our species can avoid extinction?"
(September 25, 2017 at 9:58 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Until now they've rare been self-inflicted.

I don't know of any "self-inflicted" mass extinctions. 

And even among individual extinctions, I don't know of any species that inflicted an extinction upon themselves through heavy modification of their environment.
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