The extinction of the human race

Taxi · #1 05-30-2010, 11:04 PM

See: The black cloud spreading in the gulf of mexico.

Build more bombs, monkeys.

President · #2 05-30-2010, 11:11 PM

I have been thinking about this a lot... It seems there could be far reaching consequences we may have yet to realize. Obviously I have no fucking clue about chemistry or weather but I would hate to see rain cloud with oil contamination. Or thinking about going down to the supermarket and not being able to get salmon/tuna/etc(I know, a ridiculous luxury 50% of the world doesn't have.. but..). Tourism on the beach literally stopping in Mexico and in the US.. possibly further depending on when it stops. Thousands of fishermen out of the job. Oil prices - yet again - rising. .. the list goes on..

bionicbadger · #3 05-30-2010, 11:29 PM

Its not like the extinction of the human race would be a big loss. The planet would be better off without humans

Goobles · #4 05-31-2010, 12:20 AM

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Its not like the extinction of the human race would be a big loss. The planet would be better off without humans

500 years without humans, and it would look like Pandora. Without all the sci fi shit, obv.

Zordana · #5 05-31-2010, 12:25 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhx...layer_embedded

stormlord · #6 05-31-2010, 12:29 AM

The earth is a fkin spaceship. Things need to operate normally. It's leaking oil. Need to fix it. The vast circle of life is just a roundabout way of giving us an atmosphere, water, food, air, natural wonders and security. But just like a spaceship, the earth isn't impenetrable, or infallible either. We gotta keep it in good shape.

I'm assuming we own it and thus it's our property. Do we co-own it possible or maybe we don't even own it at all? Is there any way to know? Fuk that. I say we own it. And we gotta fix it too.

stormlord · #7 05-31-2010, 12:37 AM

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500 years without humans, and it would look like Pandora. Without all the sci fi shit, obv.

Ya, I saw that on the history channel. Life after people.

I had a physics class where we were drilled about overpopulation. How it would solve most of our problems if we stopped having so many kids. The problem is predominantly one that less developed countries have to cope with. The more educated people have less children. If you look at the earth as a spaceship, that has requirements and limits, then it's not such a commie idea to consider soft population control as acceptable. Best way to go about doing it without draconian measures is to give the developing a countries a leg up so that their poorer population can get educated. What should follow is reduced population growth.

Taxi · #8 05-31-2010, 12:47 AM

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I'm assuming we own it and thus it's our property. Do we co-own it possible or maybe we don't even own it at all? Is there any way to know? Fuk that. I say we own it. And we gotta fix it too.

We can be like benevolent gods to other animals, or we can be gods of destruction. If the latter part ends up winning, we better build a fucking monolith on the moon imo cuz we lose, GG human race. At least in 65 million years when some monkey-lizard ends up on the moon, they can see a picture that tells "Hi, we were the human race, dont fuck up like we did"

stormlord · #9 05-31-2010, 12:55 AM

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We can be like benevolent gods to other animals, or we can be gods of destruction. If the latter part ends up winning, we better build a fucking monolith on the moon imo cuz we lose, GG human race. At least in 65 million years when some monkey-lizard ends up on the moon, they can see a picture that tells "Hi, we were the human race, dont fuck up like we did"

Hey you know, WTF do I care about a dolphin on this planet. I want to leave this sh**hole and live in a nebula or a giant asteroid like darth vader or in a double star system on a lifeless blue moon. When we're able to travel cheaply between planets and stars, nobody is going to be concerned with the fking animals on this planet except the same people who have always worried about them. You know, the peta members, the farmers, the animal lovers? We won't be any more godly than we're now. We just won't live here anymore.

We should be working to get out of here, not to baby this place like an ageless caretaker. We were meant to expand and explore. The few people who stay behind to be caretakers are not the majority.

Taxi · #10 05-31-2010, 03:48 AM

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We should be working to get out of here, not to baby this place like an ageless caretaker. We were meant to expand and explore. The few people who stay behind to be caretakers are not the majority.

I also think we should be working on exploring space, but we still have probably a couple of centuries left before that happens, and right now the chances of surviving those few centuries look slimer with each day that passes by. All our eggs are in a basket called earth, and im not sure what kind of catastrophic event its gonna take for humanity to get its shit together.

Religion sure doesnt help by pushing this toxic idea that its all in god's plan, and that what matters is this hypothetic afterlife, not what we have here right now. Some apocalyptic christians for example not only think that rapture is coming, they are actively working toward making it happen.

Heres a great hour and a half documentary on apocalyptic nuts if anyone is interested:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...5521791525424#

Yes, im ranting.