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08-25-2007, 09:51 PM
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Re: How will the world end
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[ QUOTE ] Um, it's when Jesus comes back and the rivers of blood and the reckoning and the judging. [/ QUOTE ] I can't help but hear Professor Frink saying this. [/ QUOTE ] FLAVIN! 
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#53
08-25-2007, 09:55 PM
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Re: How will the world end
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[ QUOTE ] The biggest long-term threat is a close proximity supernova. [/ QUOTE ] This has got to pale next to us killing ourselves off one way or the other. [/ QUOTE ] People lack the strength and conviction to keep killing themselves off. A virus gone amok isn't enough - there are so many pockets of population that are isolated enough to survive. I don't know about full-scale nuclear war - maybe one or two going off here or there, but not enough to end it. Climate change might change some things and move a whole [censored] ton of people, but that's not ending mankind. I dunno, maybe nano-tech will do it.
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#54
08-25-2007, 09:57 PM
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Re: How will the world end
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[ QUOTE ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo [/ QUOTE ] Very cool link. Had never heard of this, but it's a scary idea. [/ QUOTE ] I'm a bit of a sci-fi fan. However, I think you are right to be uneasy -- if it scares Prince Charles, it scares me! [ QUOTE ] In Britain, the Prince of Wales called upon the Royal Society to investigate the "enormous environmental and social risks" of nanotechnology in a planned report, leading to much delighted media commentary on grey goo. The Royal Society's report on nanoscience was released on 29 July 2004, and dismisses the idea as impossible. [/ QUOTE ]
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#57
08-25-2007, 10:06 PM
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Re: How will the world end
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] The biggest long-term threat is a close proximity supernova. [/ QUOTE ] This has got to pale next to us killing ourselves off one way or the other. [/ QUOTE ] People lack the strength and conviction to keep killing themselves off. A virus gone amok isn't enough - there are so many pockets of population that are isolated enough to survive. I don't know about full-scale nuclear war - maybe one or two going off here or there, but not enough to end it. Climate change might change some things and move a whole [censored] ton of people, but that's not ending mankind. I dunno, maybe nano-tech will do it. [/ QUOTE ] I think the supernova thing is supposed to take 4-5 billion years to occur. I'd be willing to bet that something like an asteroid or something else will end all life before this happens.
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#58
08-25-2007, 10:08 PM
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Re: How will the world end
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] The biggest long-term threat is a close proximity supernova. [/ QUOTE ] This has got to pale next to us killing ourselves off one way or the other. [/ QUOTE ] People lack the strength and conviction to keep killing themselves off. A virus gone amok isn't enough - there are so many pockets of population that are isolated enough to survive. I don't know about full-scale nuclear war - maybe one or two going off here or there, but not enough to end it. Climate change might change some things and move a whole [censored] ton of people, but that's not ending mankind. I dunno, maybe nano-tech will do it. [/ QUOTE ] I think the supernova thing is supposed to take 4-5 billion years to occur. I'd be willing to bet that something like an asteroid or something else will end all life before this happens. [/ QUOTE ] I'm not talking about the sun going supernova -- I'm talking about the a nearby star going supernova and crushing earth with some fierce radiation.
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#59
08-25-2007, 10:12 PM
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Re: How will the world end
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] The biggest long-term threat is a close proximity supernova. [/ QUOTE ] This has got to pale next to us killing ourselves off one way or the other. [/ QUOTE ] People lack the strength and conviction to keep killing themselves off. A virus gone amok isn't enough - there are so many pockets of population that are isolated enough to survive. I don't know about full-scale nuclear war - maybe one or two going off here or there, but not enough to end it. Climate change might change some things and move a whole [censored] ton of people, but that's not ending mankind. I dunno, maybe nano-tech will do it. [/ QUOTE ] I think the supernova thing is supposed to take 4-5 billion years to occur. I'd be willing to bet that something like an asteroid or something else will end all life before this happens. [/ QUOTE ] I'm not talking about the sun going supernova -- I'm talking about the a nearby star going supernova and crushing earth with some fierce radiation. [/ QUOTE ] I may be completely wrong on this but I don't think the sun has enough mass to go supernova. When is Andromeda due to collide with us?
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#60
08-25-2007, 10:30 PM
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Re: How will the world end
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