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Conspiratiorist posted:What is your VNM's energy source? Propulsion system (both interstellar and maneuvering)? What is your propellant? Are you confident you can procure and refine more at the destination? How do you deal with the hundreds or thousands of years that you spend traveling between stars, constantly bombarded by cosmic rays and impacting interstellar dust at relativistic speeds? Well I know that you personally will never go to space. Not with an attitude like this.
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Those are all arguments that we can't do it now. In the future, who knows
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 18:17 |
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Climate Change: Those are all arguments we can't fix it now. In the future, who knows?
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pacmania90 posted:Get therapy. Seriously. Lol as if it's affordable in the usa.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 18:44 |
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There should be a faux manned space program to entice rich and horrible people and then we just blast them off somewhere lol
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 18:57 |
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got any sevens posted:Lol as if it's affordable in the usa. He's Dutch.
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Oxxidation posted:He's Dutch.
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Feral Integral posted:There should be a faux manned space program to entice rich and horrible people and then we just blast them off somewhere lol
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Oxxidation posted:He's Dutch. I'm not, I just work in the Netherlands. FYI.
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AceOfFlames posted:I'm not, I just work in the Netherlands. FYI. Even worse.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 21:29 |
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Nah, that would be a waste of a good concrete wall.
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 08:18 |
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Oxxidation posted:"You must be THIS CULTURED to persist as a species" you're a negative influence in this thread
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 13:21 |
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MiddleOne posted:Much like silicon valley billionaires the average sadbrain will when confronted with real-world problems which feel insurmountable invent fictional problems to solve instead. Finding solutions for curbing rising internet-fueled fascism and rapid climate change? Overrated. No what we need to do is to solve how to colonize Mars and how to fight super-AI's, obviously those are the real problems! Space colonies aren't a solution to climate change. They're a means to propagate the human species by sending tiny numbers of either carefully selected people or rich idiots to
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blowfish posted:Space colonies aren't a solution to climate change. They're a means to propagate the human species by sending tiny numbers of either carefully selected people or rich idiots to Just gas the thread.
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MiddleOne posted:
Also, everyone who has posted more than 100 words in this thread needs to be locked up in a psych ward.
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 13:29 |
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i have an idea: let all who read this thread vow to plant a thousand trees in their lifetime
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 13:39 |
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let us stand naked in the forest of our own devising and raise our voices in a primal chorus that reaches all the way to the ivory tower
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and then when our woodland spreads all the way to the borders of the gluttonous city... we shall make war
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 13:40 |
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I read the thread and quietly stew over the inevitable apocalypse. It's the best choice.
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city of doves posted:i have an idea: let all who read this thread vow to plant a thousand trees in their lifetime You know what, you're on.
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city of doves posted:and then when our woodland spreads all the way to the borders of the gluttonous city... we shall make war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw0jwrWqOKI
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 21:59 |
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Son of Rodney posted:You know what, you're on. The average American is responsible for about 18 tons of CO2 per year. A tree will store about 50 pounds of co2 in a year of growing. Therefore you really only need to plant 700 trees per year every year to offset your personal carbon use.
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http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/06/30/bulgaria-code-red-dangerous-weather-alarm-for-saturday-in-much-of-the-country-2/ so yeah bulgaria had a 45c heat wave yesterday.
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Salt Fish posted:The average American is responsible for about 18 tons of CO2 per year. A tree will store about 50 pounds of co2 in a year of growing. Therefore you really only need to plant 700 trees per year every year to offset your personal carbon use. I need to plant 21,000 trees. Time to get to work!
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Stairmaster posted:http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/06/30/bulgaria-code-red-dangerous-weather-alarm-for-saturday-in-much-of-the-country-2/ As did parts of Turkey and Romania when molten Bulgaria sloshed across the border
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# ? Jul 3, 2017 01:59 |
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Salt Fish posted:The average American is responsible for about 18 tons of CO2 per year. A tree will store about 50 pounds of co2 in a year of growing. Therefore you really only need to plant 700 trees per year every year to offset your personal carbon use. How long do trees grow because 700 trees to offset my footprint over a long timeframe isn't too bad actually.
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# ? Jul 3, 2017 02:25 |
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shrike82 posted:How long do trees grow because 700 trees to offset my footprint over a long timeframe isn't too bad actually. Where exactly do you plan to plant them? I guess if you plan to buy land that you can then plant trees on, I guess that's feasible if you are a 1%er.
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BattleMoose posted:Where exactly do you plan to plant them? I guess if you plan to buy land that you can then plant trees on, I guess that's feasible if you are a 1%er. If you are sneaky you can plant them in many places.
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shrike82 posted:How long do trees grow because 700 trees to offset my footprint over a long timeframe isn't too bad actually. Until massive forest fires turn your eco- conscious kindling into vaporized carbon, and you have to plant them all again of course.
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TheBlackVegetable posted:Until massive forest fires turn your eco- conscious kindling into vaporized carbon, and you have to plant them all again of course. Plant them far enough apart so that they won't catch each other on fire if one catches on fire, duh.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.966ceb46c99fquote:On May 27, in the date-growing desert town of Turbat in Baluchistan province, the temperature reached 128.3 degrees — the hottest ever reported in Pakistan. quote:Pakistan’s water problem runs much deeper and has far more potential to devastate the country. Unlike power, water is a finite resource, highly vulnerable to global warming. Pakistan’s access to it depends partly on rivers from India, a hostile neighbor, and regionally on Himalayan glaciers that are beginning to melt. By mid-century, experts predict, the country could run out of water entirely.
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# ? Jul 3, 2017 03:21 |
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By mid-century, 2050, a little more than 30 years from now, Pakistan could be out of water. Good god, I was hoping to die before the poo poo got really bad but this poo poo can snowball so fast.
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# ? Jul 3, 2017 03:29 |
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Climate driven migrations will be a hell of a thing to watch
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Accretionist posted:Climate driven migrations will be a hell of a thing to watch You won't be just watching them, you will be personally affected even if you live a Western country. The world can barely deal with a few million Syrian refugees. What do you think is going to happen when a country of 200 million runs out of water?
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enraged_camel posted:You won't be just watching them, you will be personally affected even if you live a Western country. A country of 200 million that possesses nuclear weapons and a hostile neighbor that many Pakistanis will point to as the cause or contributor to their water crisis.
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# ? Jul 3, 2017 03:48 |
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On the plus side that'll cut the refugees down some.
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# ? Jul 3, 2017 03:51 |
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enraged_camel posted:What do you think is going to happen when a country of 200 million runs out of water? Well, I'll probably die around 2050 to 2060. So, whatever happens, it better happen by then.
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# ? Jul 3, 2017 03:57 |
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They need to to tag team large scale desalination with India
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# ? Jul 3, 2017 04:00 |
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India just fired up a fast-breeder reactor fueled by thorium rods. A good sign!
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Conspiratiorist posted:On the plus side that'll cut the refugees down some. Have you ever heard about the Sea Peoples or the Cimbri or really any group of people that, throughout history, went a whupping and a whomping every living thing that moves within an inch of its life? You know what happens? Turns out they don't kill each other, instead they just destroy enough infrastructure to make the latest group join up with them at the Number 6 dance, and then together they hit the next group.
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