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Gollywog
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Location: Debussy's brain
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 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:27 am Post subject: Life as we know it is nearly over. |
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| The clock is ticking. |
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D-Man
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
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Life is ticking by and unfortunately,I just wasted 6 seconds of it opening this thread.I'll never get them back.  |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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Which one will it be...
The Large Hardron Collider ... ?
2012 and Nibiru ? |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm a big fan of the gray goo. |
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bovinerebel
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Which one will it be...
The Large Hardron Collider ... ?
2012 and Nibiru ? |
It's a matter of perspective. I'll be stoked if I make it to 2012. I got some sh!t coming for all I've done. |
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WoBW
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: HBC
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: Re: Life as we know it is nearly over. |
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| Gollywog wrote: |
| The clock is ticking. |
Mine isn't. It's digital, so it doesn't tick. |
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RufusW
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| Carl Sagan reckons that the reason we haven't met aliens is because advanced civilisations destroy themselves before they get off their planet. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:50 am Post subject: |
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Gollywog, is this your Thank God it's Friday thread? That's messed up.
Gollywog; "Boss, I won't be into work on Monday".
Boss; "Are you sick?".
Gollywog; "Life as we know it is soon to end. The clock is ticking".
Boss; "Ah, you're angry because Let's Go 5 hasn't arrived for the 5pm 12 year olds class. I completely forgot about that. I'll call the English bookstore".
Gollywog: (rattling chains) "Wooooooooooooo". |
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R-Seoul
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
Location: your place
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:59 am Post subject: |
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Gollywog you seem like a real barrel of laughs, have you ever posted anything that wasn't full of negativity?
It's summer in Korea; try kicking back with a beer on the plastic chairs in front of 7-11, chatting to the locals. Have some kalbi & soju for dinner and then chase those pretty, young K-girls with cat�s eyes. Don�t waste your time in an Asian country whining on an internet forum. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| Carl Sagan reckons that the reason we haven't met aliens is because advanced civilisations destroy themselves before they get off their planet. |
thats because Sagan is thinking planets with Alien life on them would eventually be like how humans think. As we are on the course to destroying ourselves doesnt mean they evolved that way..
might be completely different.
perhaps they see no reason to visit earth as we cant get along with ourselves how the hell would we make them feel welcome!?
"Excuse me Mr Alien do you mind if we stick all these tubes up your arse?"
NO? ok lets do it the hard way! |
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OneWayTraffic
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
| RufusW wrote: |
| Carl Sagan reckons that the reason we haven't met aliens is because advanced civilisations destroy themselves before they get off their planet. |
thats because Sagan is thinking planets with Alien life on them would eventually be like how humans think. As we are on the course to destroying ourselves doesnt mean they evolved that way..
might be completely different.
perhaps they see no reason to visit earth as we cant get along with ourselves how the hell would we make them feel welcome!?
"Excuse me Mr Alien do you mind if we stick all these tubes up your arse?"
NO? ok lets do it the hard way! |
Lot's of might bes and maybes when we're talking about aliens of course, but the hypothesis does have something going for it. Hard to become advanced without developing technology. Technology is often either developed through war, or comes with environmental prices. Let's fudge our bets and say that a significant amount of advanced species wipe themselves out. |
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RufusW
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Busan
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If they are there we should find out about them - we've been sending radio waves into space for years by now... There are definitely possibilities for evolving differently but the basics are going to be the same....
Infinite amount of planets out there.... infinite possiblities for life to evolve. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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If they are there we should find out about them - we've been sending radio waves into space for years by now... There are definitely possibilities for evolving differently but the basics are going to be the same....
Infinite amount of planets out there.... infinite possiblities for life to evolve. |
true, but what if aliens are on the other side of the stars and at the same distance from us to the stars? good luck finding those guys! |
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Gollywog
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain
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| but what if aliens are on the other side of the stars and at the same distance from us to the stars? good luck finding those guys! |
Huh?
Look, if your travel or communication is limited by the speed of light, there's not going to be much communication or travel between inhabited planets. But....
As to the issue of making it to the point of having a science advanced enough to travel such distances, humanity does face a variety of risks.
Here's an interesting article on the Siberian fireball that exploded 100 years ago, titled "Maybe Chicken Little Wasn�t Paranoid After All":
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But the big ones are, in many ways, the easy part. Smaller rocks matter, too. Perhaps nowhere is that so evident as in central Siberia, where 100 years ago last week, something � presumably a meteoroid, most experts say � streaked across the sky and exploded at an estimated height of 28,000 feet with a force equivalent to 185 Hiroshima bombs, leveling some 800 square miles of forest. Simulations by the Sandia National Laboratories showed that object could have been just 90 feet across.
The explosion that lit up the Siberian sky in a fireball shortly after 7 a.m. on June 30, 1908, is known as the Tunguska event, after the river the flows through the damage zone, and is widely considered the modern-day warning about the dangers slinging through space.
NASA�s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has estimated that a Tunguska-size asteroid will enter Earth�s atmosphere once every 300 years and says there may be 375,000 objects of such size out there. |
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/weekinreview/06revkin.html |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: Re: Life as we know it is nearly over. |
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Quite the funny original post. But he might be onto something!! 
Say your prayers peeps! Asteroids? Nuclear war? No... no... this is worse! (or better, I suppose, as it shouldn't take much time at all!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15risk.html |
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