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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: koods]
#27098520 - 12/19/20 10:53 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Northerner said: We generally get a big meteor every 150,000 years or so, and a really big one every few hundred million. It's been 250,000 years since our last big one so the odds are increasing, but at the rate we're going humans will wipe out most of ourselves in the next 500 years or so (optimistically). So we won't get to see the big flash in the sky and reduction of our planet to ash and ice, which is a shame really as it would be one hell of a thing to see.
The odds are not increasing. The likelyhood of a random event occurring doesn’t increase because it is “overdue.”
Gambler's fallacy.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: PatrickKn]
#27098559 - 12/19/20 11:30 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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And for all the things I've said thats the only reply, that's fucking weak.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: Northerner]
#27098566 - 12/19/20 11:39 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I own some land and if anyone wants to pay me millions of dollars to dump some waste on it just lemme know.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: budmanman]
#27098612 - 12/20/20 12:48 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Northerner said: And for all the things I've said thats the only reply, that's fucking weak.
All real concerns. I think our species or a species descended from us will be around to see the meteor impact though. Many emerging technologies are promising, cultural attitudes change with time, and I think sustainable ways of living are within reach after our lifetimes, regardless of innate negative human behaviors that propagate waste/pollution, resource inefficiency and disease.
With time I think our population will plateau or start to shrink. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but the trend points towards that being realistic as birth control, automotive technologies and increasingly difficult to occupy autonomous lands reduce the incentive or survival requirement to have more and more children. We needed a couple centuries of oil based energy to get the ball rolling on sustainable forms of energy, and eventually they will take over merely because they are cheaper and more reliable. New farming techniques require less land and water than ever before and haven't been fully implemented yet.
Our current excess and damage is real, and biodiversity across the board suffers for it, but I think we can manage out of it with time and maybe even avoid a meteor impact if we have another 100K years to prepare.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: budmanman]
#27098629 - 12/20/20 01:00 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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She's glorifying Aspergers and by calling it her superpower rather than encourage other freaks to get shock treatment or lobotomies or whatever the treatent is these days. Her mother quit her job as an opera singer to make the the little mutant happy, now she thinks the whole world is going to stop driving too. Well guess what? I am not going to stop driving.
I will only agree to cut back if Greta gets an onlyfans at 18. As will most of 4chan. Otherwise no deal.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: PatrickKn]
#27098631 - 12/20/20 01:04 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd think 500 years would be more than enough to prepare for a major impact should we not totally destroy ourselves in the meantime. The last 60 years have brought unprecedented strides as far as our occupations of space. Another few centuries worth and we will at least be proficient in navigating our local system. Keep in mind, we first had a person in space less than 60 years ago. Diverting a meteor is in many ways a simple problem in comparison. We however aren't there yet.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: my3rdeye] 1
#27098632 - 12/20/20 01:06 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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my3rdeye said: She's glorifying Aspergers and by calling it her superpower rather than encourage other freaks to get shock treatment or lobotomies or whatever the treatent is these days. Her mother quit her job as an opera singer to make the the little mutant happy, now she thinks the whole world is going to stop driving too. Well guess what? I am not going to stop driving.
I will only agree to cut back if Greta gets an onlyfans at 18. As will most of 4chan. Otherwise no deal.
Bitter much?
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: christopera] 1
#27098633 - 12/20/20 01:08 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Attention starved, maybe.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: PatrickKn] 3
#27098635 - 12/20/20 01:10 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's a hard pill to swallow when a mentally disabled person is smarter than you.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: PatrickKn]
#27098719 - 12/20/20 03:32 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I do like the optimistic view that everything will work out, that after a difficult balancing period that our species will advance technologically enough to become harmonious with the planet again. It will be a hard won battle though to get to that point, there will have to be a global shift in priorities and ethics. That's a long way off though and I can't envision the sequence of events that would lead to it. Humans historically have never been very good at getting along, though quite talented at being divisive. Maybe we can break that pattern. Would seemingly be a miracle though, most countries struggle to elect competent leaders at the moment.
There's significant power in large meteors. They can be 100km across and travelling at 100km per second. If that hit us it would detonate with the power of a trillion Tzar Bomba explosions. Trying to blow it up in space would be a neat trick as there's nothing to make a shockwave to destroy it. Trying to push something with that sort of power moving that sort of speed into even a slightly different trajectory would be a scientific feat. We're only just starting to harness the power of modern computing, it may be possible to do that in the future but we are no where near that now. If we saw it coming the most we could do now is put our head between our legs. The probabilities of this happening in our lifetime is tiny, but in the long term the probability nears certainty. Anyhow, that's all trivialities.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: Northerner]
#27098722 - 12/20/20 03:43 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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you haven't played enough kerbal space program have you? 
moving a very giant object off a earth killing trajectory is easy, provided you have enough warning. the truth is, space is very, very, VERY (very) big. with enough warning, you could just slap a few (or even just one) ion propulsion rocket latched onto the asteroid in the right spot, turn it on at the right moment, and laugh as it goes from killer trajectory to whooooosh, missed earth by hundreds of thousands of miles if not more.
the ugly scenarios really are only if you completely miss it until it's saying hello, earth~ weeks or hours away from faceplanting into your rose garden. then it's basically spray and pray with nukes and hope it's one of the puffy dustbunny asteroids that explodes into fragments easily instead of the "lol i'm just a giant lump of iron actually" ones that really ruin your day. or hope you get lucky with smacking into a crevice or something with the explosions to break it into smaller, hopefully less deadly pieces. maybe.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: Psion]
#27098836 - 12/20/20 06:43 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Lol, now I need that game. There's people who take watching out for giant space rocks really seriously and planning what to do if said space rocks start heading towards us. Maybe it deserves its own thread. That way we can leave Greta to weep about our planet in peace without all this fun rocket science and boom stuff.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: my3rdeye]
#27098991 - 12/20/20 09:18 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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my3rdeye said: She's glorifying Aspergers and by calling it her superpower rather than encourage other freaks to get shock treatment or lobotomies or whatever the treatent is these days. Her mother quit her job as an opera singer to make the the little mutant happy, now she thinks the whole world is going to stop driving too. Well guess what? I am not going to stop driving.
I will only agree to cut back if Greta gets an onlyfans at 18. As will most of 4chan. Otherwise no deal.
The onlyfans is coming
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: Northerner] 1
#27099002 - 12/20/20 09:27 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Northerner said: I do like the optimistic view that everything will work out...
Well call me a pessimist as I call that wishful thinking...
In my opinion any species, on any world that evolves the ability to ask the reason why, will, by the time that those answers lead to the posibility of space exploration, will by definition, judging from the only such world we know of to have attained such technological ability, have reduced it's home world to an uninhabitable, stinking, global, cesspit.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: budmanman]
#27099020 - 12/20/20 09:40 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Guys - quit right now with the perversion posts. This isn't OTD, and I don't need stupid-ass friends who lack eloquence and good taste.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: budmanman]
#27099102 - 12/20/20 10:35 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Greta Thurburg? More like Greta Hornburg
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: Study The CNS]
#27099145 - 12/20/20 11:01 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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You have no fucking clue what the OTD was. No one has posted anything near to it.
But on with her. I wish her the best and respect what she did before becoming a media puppet and controlled. That bothers me. Coal isn't the future people. Dr. Greer. Nikola Tesla, etc. They got it or get it.
Fuck the stone ages and regression of mankind.
I like how one person put it with eternity. This earth is a interesting leaning school in our eternal progressions and why we have chosen to be here.
Look around you. Do the evolution.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: Barnaby]
#27099150 - 12/20/20 11:05 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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The coal is clean now and emits baking soda.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: deucedbi9] 1
#27099396 - 12/20/20 02:06 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't know why Greta got person of the year in Time magazine or is famous for telling people what scientists have been saying since the 1950s. She didn't do anything or have any revelations that have contributed in any way. I would also like to know the circumstances by which she got to speak before a group of world leaders too, bet there's much money and power involved to propel a disabled girl into the spotlight.
People have been protesting about the destruction and pollution of our environment for generations now, but if a 14 year old with ADHD, OCD, and Aspbergers can understand it it must be true? Environmental organisations need to recruit more little girls to cry on cue, that way world leaders will listen, apparently.
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Re: *Politely* Meet Miss Greta Thunberg [Re: christopera] 1
#27099441 - 12/20/20 02:39 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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christopera said: It's a hard pill to swallow when a mentally disabled person is smarter than you.
I'm jelly
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