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[ShLoNkY]

I'd say that mending our planet is not going to happen. I think that it would be more economical (down the road) to just move on to another planet. Then proceed to f*ck that one up too.

Look at how far computer processors have evolved. In my lifetime we went from computers being housed in warehouses that used punch cards to store data to microprocessors with 90nm technology. I'm not really that old either. When you think about it, it is some pretty sick sh*t. I mean sh*t, I get over 100fps in CSS with 8xAA and max AF. My processor is crunching 1s and 0s like a motherf*cker. About as many as 1,000,000 or so of the fastest computers you could have 10 years ago.

I think we'll move to another planet in the next coupla hundred years if we end up f*cking this one up too badly. Then again, who knows. If you go back to the 1920s and see what they thought the year 2000 would look like its funny as hell.

But yeah, we are parasites.

[Cleric]

Okay Wulf, i went back and actually found the artilce online. However, it is to old. I looked up more information on it and apparently in a newer discovery volanoes actually have a cooling effect on the earth vs a warming. They still let off a ton of harmful gases but they let it off into the troposphere and not the upper layers of the earths atmosphere.

Apparently how it works is all the chemicals released, which still are extremely bad, darken the sky which cools the earth due to lack of light and heat and more importantly if it cools water like say an ocean or a sea. Water has a greater effect because it has a relatively high heat dispersal vs air.

[Frag0holic]

We don't have to be parasites, that's not what we started out as anyway... but ever since the first tool was created Man has tried to shape the world they way he wants it to be. If we could just realize that nature knows best we could live in harmony or even symbiosis with it... but it's way too late for that now. Maybe we can do that on the next planet, but of course, we never learn as is evidenced by history.. /rant

[Cyprus]

That's 200 000 years, though 'humans' have been around for almost 3 million years just not Homo sapiens. It is still just a small fraction of life in total...
I have no doubt that life will continue after all this sh*t has settled, the question is just this: Will humans be able to colonize outer space before it's too late, or will we be able to mend our planet? I think the only hope today is science. But then there is one of the laws of ecology that says "for every advance in science there is a price for the environment" <-- I don't know how much stock I would put into that though...

I don't know if i heard it right, but in my biology class my teacher said if the history of the earth was put into a perspective of 24 hours, humans only represent a few seconds of that 24 hours. Just think of it, humans have been here for only an insignificant part the earth's history and have damaged the earth. Parts of the earth have been exposed to an increase of UV light and more people are dying of skin cancer. Sooner or later, solar flares with massive amounts of radiation will be able to hit people right on the surface of the earth.

[youwerekilled]

i live in nyc, therefore if you hear me making drowning sounds on my mic you'll know why...

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its because i will be drowning... in melted icecap water... playing css to the bitter end...

Edited by youwerekilled, 15 March 2006 - 02:27 AM.

[YoJiMbO]

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