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The World Ends Today
So apparently the world is ending today. After 6PM GMT we will have 5 months of earthquakes. The good and holy will be taken to heaven, away from all the carnage.
Peace out and Farewell!
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Too bad it ain't happening really, I can't wait for the "good and holy" to gtfo and let the world be civilized and based on humanism and modern ethics at last!
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What about the forests?
Nope.
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Well I don't know about your plans but I'm going to just chill in my bed, hopefully you won't go insane from the mental pressure of thinking that world will end
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I'm just hanging out, watching my boxsets... if the world has ended I don't know about it. Ignorance is bliss, right?
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I'm with Jasiek.
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Still alive...
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For the time being, Hungary has a temporary internet server in the metro station. In case it goes wrong by tomorrow THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING YOU EVER GAVE ME !
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lol the underground was filled with "21/05/11, get ready for the apocalypse" and more shit like that.
I hope one day people will learn to understand how foolish it is to believe in things of which there is no evidence of... or do it in a more realistic manner.
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We are all safe untill they all agree on the same date....
That said, these doomsday predictions do annoy me as they somewhat make it seem implusible that plantary extinction events can occor. The nonsense hides the truth that this stuff can happen and we are pretty unprepared. Unfortuntely as a species we are pretty darn short term thinking - things that "probably" will happen over the next 10,000 years or something just dont enter our minds.
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I think our extinction will occur sometime within the following decades and as far as things are going it seems inevitable*, but not yet, not... yet.
* green movements are still too slow for what is really necessary and should've been done some ten years ago.
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Space Guitarist If the "green movements" had their way all the time, we'd be on the verge of extinction now...
They would either starve us all to death by banning gm foods... or do it in a more indirect way by say, banning nuclear power plants and making most of us perish with the ensuing energy crisis. Paranoids and crack pots. The tree huggers are as stupid as the profit crunchers. If anything, it should be the scientists who govern things in their respective fields.
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Now, now...You shouldn't brand all the "green movements" as crazy as greenpeace etc. They arn't all that "weirdly selective" in their targets.
At least everyone is slowly comming around to the fact we don't have enough resources at the moment to cover our rate of using them up and they are helping make people aware of that. Its just sometimes their members knowledge isnt best at making the choices needed to recover from it, or sometimes they prepose worst solutions (ie, species introduction instead of pesticides). I'd still rather have well intentioned but slightly ignorant people then the "I dont care I'm going to be dead by the time this maters" crowd. Or the "i couldn't possible effect anything" people. I tried to invest in a "Unit Trust" a few months as I had some money to spare...you wouldn't believe how "evil" most of the companies making them up are. Ok, evil is a relative term..but the most recomended stuff was almost always incredibly dodgy...people dont care, they just go for the $$ numbers ![]() I was more or less forced to invest in some trust that avoided GM stuff just to avoid investing in arms companies, BP, GoldenMan sachs etc. I also loved the fact that just about all of them labeled oil as an "alternative resource". Your basicly trapped between the uneducated "greens" that care, and the successfull but short-sitted/unethical bastards that don't. (not that there isnt plenty of one pretending to be the other either). [/rant] -sigh-
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Sure the aim might be there. Less water use and all that. But the starving argument is a false one so far. The starving has all the more to do with distribution and money then anything else. Quote:
A lot of the pro nuclear arguments are full of shit aswell. False promises and misleading wordings about how it supossed to be the future. Jumping on any sentiment that happens to be in the air. Now they even try to sell it for the short term construction job opportunitys it provides. lol Quote:
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I am getting more optimist as I grow older but its still clear that research is very much restrained by money and special interest legislations. Anyway, yeah the whole world is full of paranoid crackpots. I think it perhaps has to do with all the lazy myths being trown around in it. ![]() |
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@ Darkflame, Odysseus:
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The current lack of plants being built can actualy lead to a big problem ![]() The irratation is that nuclear plants can be both (relatively) safe, and produce a lot less waste thanks to reprocessing now, but a lot of protest groups still object to even that. (then again, people object to wind farms too -_- you can't please people whatever you do really) Quote:
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About the yield: Since the introduction of gm plants in the early 90's we've been able to move from a very costly and time consuming process of spraying individual weed plants to dusting entire crops with pesticides (which usually is a substance that blocks the production of a certain protein that plants - and plants only - need) that do not hurt the modified crops (which produce a different protein). Thanks to a better way of getting rid of weeds plants have access to more nutrients and water which means a bigger yield... Which has helped (amongst other things) the prices stay relatively steady (not counting inflation) since the 90's despite a growth in population. What I was really talking about: The future, not the present... - which I thought was obvious really... By 2050 we will have to double our food production, with more then 80 percent of it coming from land that is already being used - and there's only so much you can do with traditional breeding, or proper seeding. If the crackpots had their way and blocked research on transgenic plants (on say, transfering the immunity to fungi from rice to wheats, creating drought or frost resistant plants etc.) the world could wake up one day to a very bad situation. Then there's the fact that using phosphorus based fertilisers is killing the oceans... And then there's the possibility of a bigger vitamin, calcium, protein content (amongst other things) in transgenic plants like the flavrsavr tomato. Quote:
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We'll have better and more efficient power plants in the future - it's a fact. In fact one is about to be built in the US ( a first of it's kind - a meltdown proof plant, and a first one built in 30 years). It's also a fact that there's no other more universal and steady way of generating power other then fusion which is at least two decades away. Solar panels might reach 50% efficiency at one point (and I'm sure as hell going to get me one of these) but that's it with them, and not everywhere in the world is lucky to be sunny enough... We've built dams anywhere they could be built, and as much as I'd lovw to own a wind turbine not everywhere is windy enough (and they don't let you put them up on your apartments balcony)... Coal mines kill hundreds of people each year, and the plants still, despite the best of efforts pump co2 and radioactive soot into the air. What other solution you have then? Praying to nature? There will be more people, with bigger power requirements in the future. Quote:
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People think it will effect their standard of living to make it less wastefull. But thats just cause they are confronted with for example "recycling" bullshit. -That took their effort. Or damn ugly lights that use less energy. Those kinda things are so random and make being less wastefull look like its a freaking hell. Quote:
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Its a theorectical max still, of course, but pretty sure it was more then 50% and didnt take up so much space. (as it can be growen in tubes and doesnt need direct sunlight so much). Just wish I could find the research.... Also, don't forget wave and geo-thermal too ![]() (not that they are magic fix either, but they could be used more then they are)
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In the comments, they say that it's a joke...
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