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| Thread ID: 148307 | 2019-10-27 04:02:00 | Sundays Joke - I'm Sorry. | B.M. (505) | PC World Chat |
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| 1464681 | 2019-10-27 04:02:00 | CLIMATE CHANGE: The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate at Bergen Norway . Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone . Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes . Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm . Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared . Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds . Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coast cities uninhabitable . . . . . I must apologize . I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922 , as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post 93 years ago . This must have been caused by the Model T Ford's emissions or possibly from horse and cattle farts . :) Don't know who I give credit to for this little gem . :) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1464682 | 2019-10-27 04:36:00 | T.J. strikes again:sleep | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1464683 | 2019-10-27 06:09:00 | Actually it's true: www.snopes.com The planet warms, the planet cools, the little Ice Age, remember? Or the Big Ice Age. However humans HAVE caused damage to our ecosystem - never mind the save the planet bullshit, people get confused with. We pollute, we concrete over, we breed like flies, we kill everything else. This will lead to us having trouble living happily. Serves us right. Regardless of warming or cooling. Or maybe while everyone is arguing about this, some volcanic event or asteroid or something will make it all moot. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1464684 | 2019-10-27 06:53:00 | As a direct result of tampering with/tinkering around with systems we have incomplete knowledge of, like the Sorcerer's Apprentice, there will be a major culling of any species that has bred itself past a stable equilibrium with the intertwined ecosystem composed of flora and fauna that our species is dependent on, technology won't save us, its unbridled use is part of the problem. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1464685 | 2019-10-27 07:11:00 | I already posted that in July: pressf1.pcworld.co.nz |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1464686 | 2019-10-27 07:27:00 | One of the most disturbing parts for me of this BS can be found HERE (www.tvnz.co.nz), TV1 on demand, at the 28:16 point of the timeline. Brainwashed kids thinking they and their teddy bear are going to die. How low can these nutters go? :mad: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1464687 | 2019-10-27 07:30:00 | T.J. strikes again:sleep Are you Gary's Husband or Wife? :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1464688 | 2019-10-27 19:38:00 | Brainwashed kids thinking they and their teddy bear are going to die. : Well, they ARE going to die. Sooner or later. From various causes. And sooner or later humans will join the list of extinct species, that's a given. But I know that's not what you really mean, still, about time humans stopped thinking they were so important and immortal. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1464689 | 2019-10-27 20:32:00 | Probably why we haven't been visited by space-faring xtraterrestrials and their associated advanced technology, what's happening to us is what happens to every 'intelligent' species wherever they evolve in the Universe. They're too clever by half and destroy their ecosystems by bad management and over population and on the next upward surge there's not enough resources to get into space again. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1464690 | 2019-10-28 01:01:00 | Probably why we haven't been visited by space-faring xtraterrestrials and their associated advanced technology, what's happening to us is what happens to every 'intelligent' species wherever they evolve in the Universe . . Hmm . Lets say there are smart beings out there . Why assume they are interested in visiting, or even step back a bit, that it is possible? Star Trek etc, is not good physics . And we think our way . All our thoughts on aliens picture some funny looking version of us . Take "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang , no not that drivel Arrival - that absolutely missed the point and changed his story into something completely different . In his STORY, aliens turn up, with immense difficulty she works out how to speak to them . They exchange a bit of conversation and they leave . This leaves the powers that be totally baffled, what was the point, wheres the exchange of knowledge (Read, we want yummy tech blueprints) etc . But the story shows how utterly alien they are, there speech reflects it, the way they think reflects it, their actions, or lack thereof, from our viewpoint reflects it . She gets it, just . The rest remain confused . So even if there are, why would they visit at all? because it's something we'd do? I've read some crap, and some thoughtful SF, the thoughtful ones are along the lines of we couldn't communicate at all, we recoil in horror at (A Dance to Strange MUsics, Benford), we don't understand (Chiang) . I think the thoughtful ones are the better scenarios . . . . we can't even learn our own planets species communications . We dismiss them as stupid because they don't behave the way we do . But look at those that have learned to talk to us . . . note, us, we haven't learned their speech as such . Except snippets of it, from those who actually tried hard . Even then it was limited to understanding some of it, not being able to talk back to them . We treat anything that isn't building things and indulging in our behaviours as "primitive" and stupid . We're just advantaged in having thumbs . Not brains . We have no idea what others might actually think at all . And I think we might not recognise an alien necessarily if we did meet one, well as a sentient being anyway . |
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