NationStates Jolt Archive

Although I understand that wars, famines and plagues are terrible for those it affects, I simply can't be bothered to to be shocked by it anymore.

The reasons are simple:
1 - These things are as old as the human race, and they'll probably be here as long as us.

2 - I'm a privilegued bastard living in a rich, healthy and peaceful part of the world. -I fully understand that those affected by these disasters suffer, but such is life. I also believe that we (the rich pricks) have a moral obligation to help.

3 - These things seem a bit trivial compared to the epic evil of global warming. It actually looks as if we're going to fuck up the very foundation of our existencce, the eco-system of our single planet. Now, there's a disaster on an epic scale.

Is there anyoune who still feel optimistic out there?

Optimistic about Death and Destruction?
Of course.

If you really want to look on the bright side then just remember that we live at the bottom of a gravity well rotating about an even bigger gravity well that contains a sun that will eventually burn out and that we are an unimagineable distance from any other possible habitable world once this one is gone.

Then in the REAL long term there is the battle between energy and entropy which should snuff out chances of the human race existing for eternity once and for all...

So all this, without any doubt, will come to an end.

Shx>
These prospects ar inevitable, but distant. Where I live, there used to be plenty of snow during the winter not more than ten-fifteen years ago. Now, it's been in the red end of the thermometre most of the winter. Hey, even Bush said that there might be something in the Global Warming-theory. that alone tells me we're too close for comfort.

If you really want to look on the bright side then just remember that we live at the bottom of a gravity well rotating about an even bigger gravity well that contains a sun that will eventually burn out and that we are an unimagineable distance from any other possible habitable world once this one is gone.
That reminds me...

*bum-bum-bum* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIFn6rQW4c)

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

That reminds me...

*bum-bum-bum* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIFn6rQW4c)

Awesome :D

That reminds me...

*bum-bum-bum* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIFn6rQW4c)

That's greet!

That reminds me...

*bum-bum-bum* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIFn6rQW4c)

"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth."

-how depressingly true. Man, I feel like Marvin at the moment.

Global warming angst, that's a new one.

Then in the REAL long term there is the battle between energy and entropy which should snuff out chances of the human race existing for eternity once and for all...

So all this, without any doubt, will come to an end.

..And in the really, really, REALLY long term... (http://www.exitmundi.nl/eternity.htm)

..And in the really, really, REALLY long term... (http://www.exitmundi.nl/eternity.htm)

That hinges on existence carrying on infinitely, which is a pretty big assumption to make.

That hinges on existence carrying on infinitely, which is a pretty big assumption to make.

Where would it go if it didn't?

Where would it go if it didn't?

The same place the images on your screen go when you turn it off.

That hinges on existence carrying on infinitely, which is a pretty big assumption to make.

That site is about exploring hypothetical doomsday scenarios, so some assumptions are inevitable. Though they do make reasonable attempts to take into account prevailing theory.

Global warming doesn’t equal doomsday unless the planet goes insane and we end up with Venus which isn’t very likely considering were on an active planet that doesn’t really seem to be giving us any breaks

I myself am more worried about the curbing of civil freedoms and the disturbing march towards the 1800’s though economic copulas does rate very high with me

The same place the images on your screen go when you turn it off.

Into the past?

Into the past?

Very good.

Very good.

Where is the past?

And what replaces it the image?

Where is the past?

And what replaces it the image?

*points in the negative direction of the temporal axis(a term I just made up)*
That way.

And nothing.

*points in the negative direction of the temporal axis(a term I just made up)*
That way.

And nothing.

Meh... for depressing possibilities I prefer the slow and inevitable decay of the universe over the eons rather than the 'Quick-n-Painless' blinking out of reality.