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Arby's causes mass extinction event, thankfully there's [water on Mars]
Things go extinct all the time, it's the natural way of things, how can that be sad?
I mean if you look at how the natural way of things tends actually to be something being "the natural way of things" seems like a pretty good argument that that way fucking sucks. Extinction is no exception.
A good point
It's like that bit in Jurassic Park that always bothers me a little, where Ian Malcolm is all "dinosaurs had their shot and then nature selected them for extinction"
Nature didn't select shit
A giant fuckoff rock hit the planet, Mother Gaia had dick all to do with that
Things go extinct all the time, it's the natural way of things, how can that be sad?
I mean if you look at how the natural way of things tends actually to be something being "the natural way of things" seems like a pretty good argument that that way fucking sucks. Extinction is no exception.
A good point
It's like that bit in Jurassic Park that always bothers me a little, where Ian Malcolm is all "dinosaurs had their shot and then nature selected them for extinction"
Nature didn't select shit
A giant fuckoff rock hit the planet, Mother Gaia had dick all to do with that
There's a major difference to me between "a population gets out of control so without sufficient food or habitat they die out and the biome slowly corrects itself" and "a giant rock just happened to cross orbits with the planet your biosphere exists on and fucks up the climate for thousands and thousands of years"
Like, yeah, they're both "natural" forces but the way it's phrased in the movie and the way people often talk about "the natural order" makes me think they're always talking about the Earth like it's fully in control of its own planetary destiny
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edited September 2015
To be fair, the dinosaurs had no ability to stave off a rock in space, while we might. We're more readily adaptable to that situation than they are, so natural selection might apply here.
My personal take is that we're eventually going to go out (if nothing else, the universe and/or its usable energy is as finite as anything), but I definitely would prefer to delay that.
Things go extinct all the time, it's the natural way of things, how can that be sad?
I mean if you look at how the natural way of things tends actually to be something being "the natural way of things" seems like a pretty good argument that that way fucking sucks. Extinction is no exception.
A good point
It's like that bit in Jurassic Park that always bothers me a little, where Ian Malcolm is all "dinosaurs had their shot and then nature selected them for extinction"
Nature didn't select shit
A giant fuckoff rock hit the planet, Mother Gaia had dick all to do with that
Yeah I gotta disagree with you there.
A catastrophic sized impact is predicted to hit the earth every 100 million years. Life has been on earth about 3.5 billion years. That means it's happened around 35 times.
Things go extinct all the time, it's the natural way of things, how can that be sad?
I mean if you look at how the natural way of things tends actually to be something being "the natural way of things" seems like a pretty good argument that that way fucking sucks. Extinction is no exception.
A good point
It's like that bit in Jurassic Park that always bothers me a little, where Ian Malcolm is all "dinosaurs had their shot and then nature selected them for extinction"
Nature didn't select shit
A giant fuckoff rock hit the planet, Mother Gaia had dick all to do with that
Yeah I gotta disagree with you there.
A catastrophic sized impact is predicted to hit the earth every 100 million years. Life has been on earth about 3.5 billion years. That means it's happened around 35 times.
To vaguely recall Rincewind, Earth's a nice enough place to visit, but staying there for very long just doesn't work.
It's hard to argue all of this from a "humanity will not make it to the point where we can live on Mars anyways" perspective so I'll just quit while I'm sufficiently behind
We went from first inventing cars to smashing the particles that make up the universe for fun in only a hundred year span
Is it weird that we're all excited about potentially colonizing Mars, while we haven't even set up anything on the Moon? After all that dick measuring contest known as the Space Race was finished, I'd have thought we'd at least have a multinational complex on it by now. Serves you guys right for not electing Newt Gingrich.
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Everyone else can go extinct if they wanna
Is that why you tampered with the candy land die?
A good point
It's like that bit in Jurassic Park that always bothers me a little, where Ian Malcolm is all "dinosaurs had their shot and then nature selected them for extinction"
Nature didn't select shit
A giant fuckoff rock hit the planet, Mother Gaia had dick all to do with that
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They can't roll a die if their fingers are broken.
What about The Rock dropping an elbow on the planet?
well I mean, asteroids are naturally occurring
That would be nature selecting us for extinction
There's a major difference to me between "a population gets out of control so without sufficient food or habitat they die out and the biome slowly corrects itself" and "a giant rock just happened to cross orbits with the planet your biosphere exists on and fucks up the climate for thousands and thousands of years"
Like, yeah, they're both "natural" forces but the way it's phrased in the movie and the way people often talk about "the natural order" makes me think they're always talking about the Earth like it's fully in control of its own planetary destiny
And naw
Naw it ain't
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I can get behind this, yes
Well
He is a force of nature
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Let's skip mars and go somewhere else.
Yeah I gotta disagree with you there.
A catastrophic sized impact is predicted to hit the earth every 100 million years. Life has been on earth about 3.5 billion years. That means it's happened around 35 times.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
That's Phobos Uriel
Christ
It's like you don't remember the deep and storied in-universe lore of DOOM or something
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and, if the other forums i frequent are to be believed, aliens.
ancient aliens maybe.
To vaguely recall Rincewind, Earth's a nice enough place to visit, but staying there for very long just doesn't work.
what if aliens and demons are actually the SAME THING
/spooky musical sting/
(i love that this is the second result for "ancient aliens" on GIS)
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...It wasn't aliens.
I told you I'm not saying it.
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Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
What have we been talking about here, if not alien butt?
have we covered
this yet?
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GO ON...
someone is going to dig too deep and cause a sink hole that eventually leads to an ocean
I may have mentioned it.
We went from first inventing cars to smashing the particles that make up the universe for fun in only a hundred year span
We are going to mars
WoW
Dear Satan.....
this sucks for real
We already did that years ago
They are still floating up there somewhere!
It's also the exception
That's what the lunarians want you to think.
They're still pissed about us invading and planting a flag on the place.