🚀 go-pugleaf

Sekula wrote:
> Maybe we can get some REAL VALUE out of NASA and the space program?
>
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1298285/Massive-asteroid-hit-Earth-2182-warn-scientists.html
>
> --
> The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of
> today.
> Franklin D Roosevelt
> Science without religion  is lame, religion
>  without science is blind."
>
>  Albert Einstein "Ideas and Opinions" 1954

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Don't be so pessimistic. Humans will destroy
the planet and themselves well before then.

http://www.greatchange.org/catton,overshoot_graphs.html

http://desip.igc.org/malthus/Catton.html

http://dieoff.org/page134.htm

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Benway (original non-Zionist) wrote:
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>
> Sekula wrote:
>> Maybe we can get some REAL VALUE out of NASA and the space program?
>>
>>
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1298285/Massive-asteroid-hit-Earth-2182-warn-scientists.html
>>
>> --
>> The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of
>> today.
>> Franklin D Roosevelt
>> Science without religion  is lame, religion
>>   without science is blind."
>>
>>   Albert Einstein "Ideas and Opinions" 1954
>
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>
> Don't be so pessimistic. Humans will destroy
> the planet and themselves well before then.
>

Don't worry, the planet will definitely survive us.
There have been mega extinction events in the past, the Permian one 
being the most catastrophic (around 90% of existing species at the time 
were wiped out). We've been here for barely a blink, even if we're wiped 
out the cockroaches will take over later.


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