Posted: 8/17/2012 2:07:13 AM EDT
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| 50,000 years my ass. We will have long destroyed this place and most life here by then. I bet within 500 years we have used all available resources. Overpopulation will be our downfall as a species unless something drastic happens to cull our numbers. It'll happen way sooner than 50K years. I've said this before and I'll say it again, humans are like mold on a piece of bread and the bread is quickly running out. |
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50,000 years my ass. We will have long destroyed this place and most life here by then. I bet within 500 years we have used all available resources. Overpopulation will be our downfall as a species unless something drastic happens to cull our numbers. It'll happen way sooner than 50K years. I've said this before and I'll say it again, humans are like mold on a piece of bread and the bread is quickly running out. You are sorely mistaken. Humans are clever bastards and will find a way to continue. Look at the Inuit people of the Arctic or the Bushmen of Southern Africa. They thrived for centuries with very meager resources. |
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Stuff like this messes with my head.
I wonder if theres going to be any people around to see this happen, if they'll even be what I recognize as "people", if Earth is just going to be a distant memory...And if all the stars out there are going to eventually run out of fuel and die, turning the universe into a big dark empty void...Then what? Yes, I am oh so well aware that I'm not going to be there to see any of it happen, which I sort of regret as I'm sure some of it is going to be quite beautiful in a sick and twisted "Yes it's killing us, but isn't it pretty?" sort of way. Meh, screw it. |
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We are never going to get off this rock unless a significant portion of people make it our long term goal. This is going to be very hard to do for two reasons: 1) the vast majority of people are only concerned about making their lives better. Many people want free shit, and many people don't care about destroying or wasting resources. Fuck the future generations, this is my shit and I'll do what I please. 2) a large portion of the population already believes it knows all of the answers to everything, they believe that the earth and its inhabitants are the most important thing in the universe, and thus, don't care about learning anything else. Heck, many don't really even give a shit about the survival of our species, because if we go extinct, its all part of some sort of plan by some deity(s). |
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the only timeline you need https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKWU2EqNgF-vLQDf6YLLPAwAi0gGhs609Z0GkB2a67gx0jEKPMqw +1 |
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As the climate changes so will the creatures, including us. Most all creatures will slowly change to adapt to a warmer briter planet. If humans are still around in the far future we will probobly be the ones to fight the climate change by avoiding the outside or building domes that would slow our natural adaptation to it and ensure our eventual death when the artificial protection fails.
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50,000 years my ass. We will have long destroyed this place and most life here by then. I bet within 500 years we have used all available resources. Overpopulation will be our downfall as a species unless something drastic happens to cull our numbers. It'll happen way sooner than 50K years. I've said this before and I'll say it again, humans are like mold on a piece of bread and the bread is quickly running out. You are sorely mistaken. Humans are clever bastards and will find a way to continue. Look at the Inuit people of the Arctic or the Bushmen of Southern Africa. They thrived for centuries with very meager resources. Exactly. Don't know what RickNC is so negative thinking we'll have to "cull" our numbers...what if we actually pull our heads out of our collective asses and manage to blast off this rock with a sustainable colony in the next millennium? |
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50,000 years my ass. We will have long destroyed this place and most life here by then. I bet within 500 years we have used all available resources. Overpopulation will be our downfall as a species unless something drastic happens to cull our numbers. It'll happen way sooner than 50K years. I've said this before and I'll say it again, humans are like mold on a piece of bread and the bread is quickly running out. You are sorely mistaken. Humans are clever bastards and will find a way to continue. Look at the Inuit people of the Arctic or the Bushmen of Southern Africa. They thrived for centuries with very meager resources. Exactly. Don't know what RickNC is so negative thinking we'll have to "cull" our numbers...what if we actually pull our heads out of our collective asses and manage to blast off this rock with a sustainable colony in the next millennium? If most of the nations on this planet were developed economically, socially, scientifically, etc. then that would be a possibility. As it is, the vast majority of nations on this planet are still 3rd world dumps where the goat herders are more concerned with stoning women who were raped than they are advancing their society beyond the stone age. Greece~2,300 years ago was more advanced than the majority of countries on this planet today. And the nations that do have the advanced societies, economies, etc. are too damn concerned with reverting us all to slaves via socialism/communism than they are thinking about mankind's future. Shit, even the most powerful nation on Earth (United States) just pretty much gutted its space program (NASA) in favor of Muslim outreach. |
| We are currently discovering new data about the universe at a quicker pace than ever. The last 10 years have really been stellar. Of course the budgets have been cut again and our focus has been diminished. I hope to see increased focus put back on maned missions to Mars, etc. |
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All I saw was a giant kumbaya hit piece.  We dun need any of that thar fancy book lernin here in GD, bub 
Although I thought it was bs for other reasons. The human DNA is ever degenerating. I don't really have any references but I don't know if the human genome in it's present state, present protective measures etc is sustainable for such a timescale. We'll either have degenerated into something completely unrecognizable as a human being or completely extinct in a few million years. Even if we don't kill each other off before. I say we'll kill each other off before. |
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All I saw was a giant kumbaya hit piece. We dun need any of that thar fancy book lernin here in GD, bub
Although I thought it was bs for other reasons. The human DNA is ever degenerating. I don't really have any references but I don't know if the human genome in it's present state, present protective measures etc is sustainable for such a timescale. We'll either have degenerated into something completely unrecognizable as a human being or completely extinct in a few million years. Even if we don't kill each other off before. I say we'll kill each other off before. How is the human genome degenerative? |
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All I saw was a giant kumbaya hit piece. We dun need any of that thar fancy book lernin here in GD, bub
Although I thought it was bs for other reasons. The human DNA is ever degenerating. I don't really have any references but I don't know if the human genome in it's present state, present protective measures etc is sustainable for such a timescale. We'll either have degenerated into something completely unrecognizable as a human being or completely extinct in a few million years. Even if we don't kill each other off before. I say we'll kill each other off before. How is the human genome degenerative? Mutations. Who can say that in a million years, there won't be enough mutations in our genome to cause an extinction? |
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In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive He's taken everything this old earth can give And he ain't put back nothing Now it's been ten thousand years, man has cried a billion tears For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday |
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Quoted: the only timeline you need https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKWU2EqNgF-vLQDf6YLLPAwAi0gGhs609Z0GkB2a67gx0jEKPMqw Sorry, I read that book and it didn't contain anything useful about the actual timeline of the universe. Its statements about the age of the universe and the earth weren't literally accurate. |
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Quoted: Quoted: the only timeline you need https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKWU2EqNgF-vLQDf6YLLPAwAi0gGhs609Z0GkB2a67gx0jEKPMqw +1 Biblical literalists sadden me. |
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Quoted: Quoted: One thing to think about: if the sun does indeed get hotter...doesn't that make Mars more inviting? Mars won't hold an atmosphere now due to the solar wind. I think if the sun went red, it would make it even more difficult for Mars to keep air. Actually, atmosphere loss takes place over long periods of time. Theoretically (maybe not practically) mars could be terraformed to hold an atmosphere good enough to support earth life. That said, if enough time has gone by that the sun is going red giant, and we are just beginning to look at mars as a lifeboat and haven't left the solar system, there is little chance that mars will buy us enough time to figure out what we hadn't been able to figure our from now until then. |
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the only timeline you need https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKWU2EqNgF-vLQDf6YLLPAwAi0gGhs609Z0GkB2a67gx0jEKPMqw Ooh...I like fiction. |
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Quoted: Sorry that you don't like the OP then.Quoted: the only timeline you need https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKWU2EqNgF-vLQDf6YLLPAwAi0gGhs609Z0GkB2a67gx0jEKPMqw Ooh...I like fiction.  |
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Sorry that you don't like the OP then.
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the only timeline you need https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKWU2EqNgF-vLQDf6YLLPAwAi0gGhs609Z0GkB2a67gx0jEKPMqw Ooh...I like fiction.
OP's ok..glassy eyes, not so much.
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Quoted: ....and to think of all we've accomplished in the 6,000 years that the Earth has been around. Well, recorded history is a little over that long. Before that there was pretty much no progress (other than the most basic of tools used for hunting and gathering.) So yeah, most of what we've accomplished has been done in that handful of millennia. |
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A hit piece on who, exactly?
All I saw was a giant kumbaya hit piece. I have no sound. Reading it, by the end all they said is if we don't join together we'll die in eleventy biliion years. "Join together" is a phrase that usually is spouted by tools. Just sayin'. I give special props to the 50,000 year mark. 
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| THat timeline is off compared to a thread a few short weeks ago. THere's some stuff (forgot the name of it) that could be called anti-matter and acts as the glue for everything in existence. With the continual expansion of the universe it loses its integrity and eveything is hurled every which way after disentigrating IIRC. Possibly as short as 1.1 billion years from now for the complete collapse of the universe.. |