Wiggin is dumb. Kusu and Cass acted dumb and in some tour de force thing, everybody ended up getting banned until Saturday.
Ah, thanks.
I'm reading that thread and it's like watching a train wreck with like, starving babies getting blown up in mid-air after getting thrown after the train hits an orphanage.
We have beautiful weather, in fact it's one of the hottest Aprils in quite a while.
that's pretty sweet
actually if i could rig up some way, i'd love to give you our rain. last weekend we got 11 inches in like 6 hours
the water table rose so high near my house that my parents and i were bailing water out of our basement for about 10 hours straight, all through the night. it was godawful. we would sleep in shifts, with two people frantically working at any given time. it doesn't help that a stream's in our back yard, which promptly flooded and contributed to the problem.
stupid rain
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I really want to see his maths, I really do. He comes out with the claim it is "dumb" not to consider new species emerging, yet seems to have missed the point that the majority of what is going extinct is going extinct too rapidly for evolution to compensate. It's simple how to picture this, imagine we have 3 colours on a wall in whatever pattern you like: Blue, Red and Green.
Let's imagine that each represents a specific niche in an ecosystem and that there are predators or environmental factors that kill the little coloured organisms that live on these squares if they are on other squares. So a blue organism can only live on a blue background and a red organism can only live on a red background. If you remove the blue and green backgrounds (classic habitat loss or change in environmental conditions): What do you get left with?
Do you have a net gain or loss of species?
Even in this simple example, with the loss of habitat also comes the loss of possible species biodiversity. This is the 'real world' scenario put into real terms. If you lose a coral reef (Like the Great Barrier Reef) that took around 100,000 years to develop into what it is today (given it is miles across and corals grow at a rate of milimeters per year), how on earth does anyone think you can replace the sheer biodiversity of that region faster than it all goes extinct in 100 years?
I really want to see his maths, I really do. He comes out with the claim it is "dumb" not to consider new species emerging, yet seems to have missed the point that the majority of what is going extinct is going extinct too rapidly for evolution to compensate. It's simple how to picture this, imagine we have 3 colours on a wall in whatever pattern you like: Blue, Red and Green.
Let's imagine that each represents a specific niche in an ecosystem and that there are predators or environmental factors that kill the little coloured organisms that live on these squares if they are on other squares. So a blue organism can only live on a blue background and a red organism can only live on a red background. If you remove the blue and green backgrounds (classic habitat loss or change in environmental conditions): What do you get left with?
Do you have a net gain or loss of species?
Even in this simple example, with the loss of habitat also comes the loss of possible species biodiversity. This is the 'real world' scenario put into real terms. If you lose a coral reef (Like the Great Barrier Reef) that took around 100,000 years to develop into what it is today (given it is miles across and corals grow at a rate of milimeters per year), how on earth does anyone think you can replace the sheer biodiversity of that region faster than it all goes extinct in 100 years?
You can't.
Which is why the whole "well mass extinctions have happened before, get over it" nihilism is fucking retarded.
They happen once in a blue moon, and they change everything. We, as a species, have most decidedly not done enough research into just how much we rely on the world as it is. We evolved in it when it had a certain pattern of life. Fucking with that might not be as simple a situation as "lol we'll invent future stuffs and be fine olol."
Hmmm, OK - so Drive was cancelled (cant quite figure out how sad I am about that), Prison break the second season destroyed my will to continue watching... I still have 24 and lost. BSG wont be back for a while... Anyone reccomend anything else worth watching? current or upcoming?
I just keep in mind that it takes practically always longer to build something than to destroy it. I see no reason why eco systems or species should be any different.
I just keep in mind that it takes practically always longer to build something than to destroy it. I see no reason why eco systems or species should be any different.
Edit: Well, there's always Heroes, Fallingman!
*Facepalm*
I forgot to mention Heroes... Already watch it (the break got to me!)
Hmm, that's it then.
Maybe someone who watches his show through less dubious channels can help you. :P
*cough*
not necessarily....
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Oh man, the roofles I am generating from this YEC fellow called SuperSport:
"I Hereby announce that studying human DNA is a big, fat waste of time and money. All those scientists are out of their minds. I could accomplish more with a plastic shovel in my kids' sandbox."
supersport, CARM [Comments (45)] [2006-Dec-13]
"I mean if modern day humans have been around for tens of thousands of years, then where are all the skyscrapers from years gone by? Where are all the books and artifacts? Where are the planes and cars?"
"In my opinion, if an animal in the wild like a swan is caught being gay it should be shot on sight, disinfected, and used to feed the poor."
supersport, carm [Comments (52)] [2006-Nov-21]
Just what the fuck?
"Science has hardly cured a single thing to date....what makes you think they're going to start now?"
supersport, CARM [Comments (38)] [2007-Mar-26]
Genius!
"homosexuals should be thrown in jail like in the good ole days....maybe we could let them pick up trash on the side of the road while they're all linked together with chains. At least that way Aids would be confined to prisons as opposed to infecting the rest of society and dragging everyone else down with them."
"What happened to the happy-go-lucky, peace-loving athiest? The reality is atheists are dreadfully miserable, foul-mouthed individuals....Truly the pond scum of society."
Ok, I'm going to stop now. I just can't take anymore of this. I found this in one of my most favourite threads here.
Edit: Wait, one more:
All Aboard! Everyone hop on the Darwinist holocaust train!
Well the everyone grab your ticket! The dark side is going to make it that every man, woman and child has free health care. It's not exactly the same, but for me it brings back images of the jews being led towards the death showers in Germany."
Also I had a dream where some crack-head stabbed me in the top of my head with a broken razor-blade to steal my Mass Comm text. And other stuff that I'm not actively trying to remember.
Also I had a dream where some crack-head stabbed me in the top of my head with a broken razor-blade to steal my Mass Comm text. And other stuff that I'm not actively trying to remember.
Also I had a dream where some crack-head stabbed me in the top of my head with a broken razor-blade to steal my Mass Comm text. And other stuff that I'm not actively trying to remember.
Cold turkey? :P
What are you talking about, now that I can move my limbs properly (that takes a few minutes after I wake up) my first priority is a cigarette.
Also I had a dream where some crack-head stabbed me in the top of my head with a broken razor-blade to steal my Mass Comm text. And other stuff that I'm not actively trying to remember.
Cold turkey? :P
What are you talking about, now that I can move my limbs properly (that takes a few minutes after I wake up) my first priority is a cigarette.
I was asking what you had for dinner...
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Also I had a dream where some crack-head stabbed me in the top of my head with a broken razor-blade to steal my Mass Comm text. And other stuff that I'm not actively trying to remember.
Cold turkey? :P
What are you talking about, now that I can move my limbs properly (that takes a few minutes after I wake up) my first priority is a cigarette.
CrimsonKing needs to learn that no one cares what his opinions are because said opinions are retarded.
Plus, he's never backed a single one up. The only thing separating him from the legion of banned trolls is lack of motivation. He just doesn't post enough.
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Ah, thanks.
I'm reading that thread and it's like watching a train wreck with like, starving babies getting blown up in mid-air after getting thrown after the train hits an orphanage.
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Maaaan!
Uh... hello and good morning.
I've been too excited by the extinction thread.
Edit: Need photobucket back up. Doh.
Hey haps
i take it as a bad sign when i'm still maeking poast and you wake up
no offense to you, of course. it just means i've stayed up way too late, hehe
It's good to have you and Aegeri around again.
playing eve. it's an evil, evil game, just like most MMO's
and yes aegeri is awesome. owning bitches all up in that extinction thread.
how's the german heartland this day
here in new jersey it's raining raining raining
We have beautiful weather, in fact it's one of the hottest Aprils in quite a while.
that's pretty sweet
actually if i could rig up some way, i'd love to give you our rain. last weekend we got 11 inches in like 6 hours
the water table rose so high near my house that my parents and i were bailing water out of our basement for about 10 hours straight, all through the night. it was godawful. we would sleep in shifts, with two people frantically working at any given time. it doesn't help that a stream's in our back yard, which promptly flooded and contributed to the problem.
stupid rain
Let's imagine that each represents a specific niche in an ecosystem and that there are predators or environmental factors that kill the little coloured organisms that live on these squares if they are on other squares. So a blue organism can only live on a blue background and a red organism can only live on a red background. If you remove the blue and green backgrounds (classic habitat loss or change in environmental conditions): What do you get left with?
Do you have a net gain or loss of species?
Even in this simple example, with the loss of habitat also comes the loss of possible species biodiversity. This is the 'real world' scenario put into real terms. If you lose a coral reef (Like the Great Barrier Reef) that took around 100,000 years to develop into what it is today (given it is miles across and corals grow at a rate of milimeters per year), how on earth does anyone think you can replace the sheer biodiversity of that region faster than it all goes extinct in 100 years?
You can't.
Which is why the whole "well mass extinctions have happened before, get over it" nihilism is fucking retarded.
They happen once in a blue moon, and they change everything. We, as a species, have most decidedly not done enough research into just how much we rely on the world as it is. We evolved in it when it had a certain pattern of life. Fucking with that might not be as simple a situation as "lol we'll invent future stuffs and be fine olol."
This is what people don't seem to get.
I just keep in mind that it takes practically always longer to build something than to destroy it. I see no reason why eco systems or species should be any different.
Edit: Well, there's always Heroes, Fallingman!
*Facepalm*
I forgot to mention Heroes... Already watch it (the break got to me!)
Maybe someone who watches his show through less dubious channels can help you. :P
*cough*
not necessarily....
Roofle.
Just what the fuck?
Genius!
Lol, especially given this quote:
Ok, I'm going to stop now. I just can't take anymore of this. I found this in one of my most favourite threads here.
Edit: Wait, one more:
MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.
He doesn't need brains when he has the TRUTH behind him.
He's mind-bogglingly dumb.
They have a license to kill.
Except on a whim.
Aaaah, good times, good times. Now off to uni for me!
Cold turkey? :P
What are you talking about, now that I can move my limbs properly (that takes a few minutes after I wake up) my first priority is a cigarette.
I was asking what you had for dinner...
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I bet you were....
Ohhhhh pleeasseee take meeee dowwwn
What thread?
Plus, he's never backed a single one up. The only thing separating him from the legion of banned trolls is lack of motivation. He just doesn't post enough.