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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 7:16 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!
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.
You can watch it live here:
![[Image: N_iqr_timeseries.png]](https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iqr_timeseries.png)
And, here:
![[Image: S_iqr_timeseries.png]](https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_iqr_timeseries.png)
Note that the above graphs will update "real-time". As the Poles go, so does the Earth. That's what the bimbo Trump supporters can't understand. By the way, the Antarctic was predicted to start declining sometime in the 2030s, and so, we are ahead of schedule.
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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.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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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!
*shrugs*
I'll be dead by then.
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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.
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 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
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(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."
Wow, joke failure. Never mind.
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RE: Mass extinction date set by science.
September 25, 2017 at 10:06 am
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(September 25, 2017 at 10:03 am)Cyberman Wrote: Wow, joke failure. Never mind.
I did get the joke.
I know, good for me.
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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. Just hang around.
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