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we're definatly going to blow ourselves up... but then once the radiation dissipates everything will regrow... and this will probably go on untill the sun explode or a giant meteor blow the earth into a million pieces....

  • 02.06.2005 4:11 PM PDT
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I for one think that if most of us die,A few will survive and humanity will rise up again.We are an incredibly resilent species you know,thats why we keep gorrilas in zoos and not the other way around.We might advance to the point where we canfix the damage we've done or create more enviromentally freindly ones before the ozone layer dissapeers or our oceans become a toxic soup or the air itself becomes a deadly toxin.We are advancing at an incredible speed now.

  • 02.06.2005 5:21 PM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

Heh. Give us 30 years, and we'll have civilain settlements on the Moon.

  • 02.06.2005 5:23 PM PDT
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you can already buy property on the moon

  • 02.06.2005 7:10 PM PDT
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Figgie... you really suck.

Tristan ;-)

  • 02.06.2005 7:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: Figgle
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Figgie... you really suck.

Tristan ;-)


What? Are you a dirty Englishman?

Or an aging hippy?

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I say we crash the moon into Russia!

Whether we find life on Jupiter or not, I think it should be considered an enemy planet.


He is right, you suck and before you ask I'm an Aussie not an "Englishman" as you put it.

  • 02.06.2005 7:37 PM PDT

Barrrrrrron, nobody knows what exactly is causing climate change. But the fact remains that as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels, we are at least contributing to speeding it up. Don't give me that "global warming is just a natural rebound from the Small Ice Age" bull-blam!-. That rebound should have finished by now.

And global warming is only half the problem. Sooner or later, all the fuels in the Earth will run out. Sure, we probably haven't found even a smallish proportion of the oil and coal buried in the crust. But it won't last for ever. The big oil companies are all committed to suppressing renewable power sources, because they will lose money (duh). Which is why nobody can get enough investment for a viable renewable energy programme. And the fact that the oil and coal lobby is so strong in most Western nations doesn't help (hell, Bush even dabbles in the industry himself).

Anyway, as for colonising Mars, I recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Blue Mars, and Green Mars). That's pretty much a strong vision of how colonisation should happen.

- Reiginko

  • 02.06.2005 7:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: GruntHaven
Posted by: Figgle
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Figgie... you really suck.

Tristan ;-)


What? Are you a dirty Englishman?

Or an aging hippy?

------------->SPAM<-----------------
I say we crash the moon into Russia!

Whether we find life on Jupiter or not, I think it should be considered an enemy planet.


He is right, you suck and before you ask I'm an Aussie not an "Englishman" as you put it.

Aussie here too...

And you're still retarded... Hmm... I never flame anybody... There really is something wrong with you.

Tristan ;-)

  • 02.06.2005 7:56 PM PDT

Posted by: Reiginko
Barrrrrrron, nobody knows what exactly is causing climate change.


Blah. You have a point. I can't argue the topic further because we just don't know enough about global warming to say anything. Human history has never recorded anything like this before so we are on unsteady ground. And when on unsteady ground, as I always say, you need to tread very carefully.

The rest of my last post in this thread still stands. (I still can't counter that damnable "Barrrrron" thing, either... ;-)

  • 02.06.2005 7:57 PM PDT
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The Ballard Fuel Cell will most assuredly change everything. In the next ten years, we will see more hydrogen powered vehicles. And once our world has converted entirely to hydrogen over gasoline, our polution problem shall recede by a drastic amount.

  • 02.06.2005 9:15 PM PDT
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My prediction is that in the process of cololizing the Solar System, we will revert beack to the time of Earth colonization and many wars will arise over land, resources, money, the usual. Nuclear weapons will probably be used, and many of our population will die. That is unless the world becomes a bit more unified, like that will ever happen.

  • 02.07.2005 6:59 AM PDT
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Space colonization could be easily accomplished within 20-30 years if NASA would ressurrect Project Orion. Orion was the codename for secret research project in the 1950's that involved the creation of 4000 ton starships powered by the force of nuclear bombs. If the project hadn't been cancelled, we would have had men on the moons of Saturn by the 1970's.

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I dont think there is much chance of wars over the solar system for quite some time. Only really the States has the technology, knowhow and resources to be any way near carrying out any such plan at the moment. The only way that could happen is if countriesa object to America attempting this, which is feasible, but it is unlikely they would dare attempt to attck the US, unless they were mad. If enough time passes the there might be other possible rivals, such as China, who seem to be putting a lot into their space program, I guess for both for prestige and military purposes. In the end, if there is no war that wipes out human life on Earth, and we dont all unite, there will almost certainly be wars in space (and releated ones here), but not for a very very long time.

  • 02.07.2005 10:35 AM PDT
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Imagine the vast imigration that will occur once Mars has become a suitable planet for humans. "The new world", this time spoken literally. And I imagine some day down the road, Mars will rebel against Earth and set itself up as its own political power.

  • 02.07.2005 4:35 PM PDT

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dont worry aout the next 100 years, in the next 30 or so I think life on this earth will end, sort of, I think the end times have already started, but hey at least heaven is going to kick ass

  • 02.07.2005 4:49 PM PDT
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That depends on whether you are pre or post-tribulation.

  • 02.07.2005 4:59 PM PDT
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The End times? Why? They would be -blam!-. The end of the world. Not something I am going to enjoy, and I dont even have the best of lives. I say the whole end of times stuff is crap.

  • 02.08.2005 12:51 AM PDT

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