Global Warming / Climate Change.
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If by "fuckin fuckers" you really mean "reality" then I can empathize. Reality forces a lot of things on me that suck also that I wish I could pretend don't exist.
Unfortunately for me I'm a big believer in things like facts, overwhelming empirical evidence, and science.
GibbsGrad2002
Mr. Nice gallery
It's bullshit!
Mayhem
Banned
nah-uh! :nono:
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
Shifty
O.G.
If climate change happens then it was meant to happen. Humans were meant to spawn on the surface of this planet, exist for a few millenia and then disappear. Forgotten in time.
Who gives a flying fuck? Not me!
Fuck anyone who is stupid enough to believe that humans can actually destroy a PLANET.
Goddamit, as a race we won't even entertain the notion of extraterrestrial life!
All humans can do is wipe themselves off this planet.
One day, in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 years (give or take according to our best and brightest) the sun will hiccup and planet earth will vanish.
Forgotten in time.
Who gives a flying fuck? Not me!
Fuck anyone who is stupid enough to believe that humans can actually destroy a PLANET.
Goddamit, as a race we won't even entertain the notion of extraterrestrial life!
All humans can do is wipe themselves off this planet.
One day, in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 years (give or take according to our best and brightest) the sun will hiccup and planet earth will vanish.
Forgotten in time.
I've heard its around 6 billion years before the sun farts and wipes out half the solar system, but if before then we as a people create the death star then i'm pretty sure the Earth will be safe and sound!
Sam Fisher
Banned
Maybe someday earthlings will migrate to this place... and the Border Wars can start all over again.
Mayhem
Banned
Were you drunk when you wrote this? The worldwide arsenal of thermonuclear weapons that we currently have (with or without Iran) could take the planet down to a handful of cockroaches. Of course we have the capability to destroy our planet. And we have the same capability with polluting industries run amok.
Seriously, think about what you're going to say before you say it.
StanScratch
My Penis Is Dancing!
I am probably overthinking things, but Shifty could be saying we don't (yet) have the capacity to literally destroy Earth. Yet. Sure, we can severely scar her surface - we can bring down mountains, drain lakes and turn oceans into dead zones, but we haven't yet found the ability to turn our planet into a bunch of flying chunks, a la Star Wars. The damage we are doing is pretty significant, but we are actually doing most of this damage to our own environmental comfort zone. Once we snuff ourselves out, nature and Earth's weather forces will combine to erase most traces of our existence, save a few fossils, by a few tens of thousand years.
Shifty
O.G.
Mayhem, I stated that "All humans can do is wipe themselves off this planet." Essentially, you've agreed with me.
While we could indeed wipe out all life on this planet with nukes, we are not capable of destroying this planet. You actually stated that our nukes would 'take the planet down to a handful of cockroaches'. This does not amount to the destruction of Earth, only to the elimination of life.
Over time, any 'damage' that we might cause with nuclear weaponry would be regenerated, and in the grand scheme of things would be insignificant. Akin to surface rust. Moreover, the idea that manmade pollutants could come anywhere close to causing this level of destruction ('And we have the same capability with polluting industries run amok') is asinine.
Case in point - the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The earth was 'damaged' by the impact of a meteorite, and all life disappeared. The earth regenerated and was once again able to support life.
Word to the wise: take your own advice. And thanks for the laughs.
Mayhem
Banned
OK, well I was a little nervous that I had misinterpreted. When I posted that, I'd come home from 8 hours of dealong blackjack to Rodeo people and was pretty tired. But nope, I didn't. Why you would make the distinction between wiping out the human race, but leaving landmarks intact is beyond me.
Our level of pollution is not being confined to ourselves. We are killing our oceans and those who live within it with mercury poisoning. Smokestack emissions turn into mercury (sulfide? I'm still tired and I don't want to refresh my memory with web searches right now), which fall into the ocean and infects the entire food chain. The Environmental Defense Fund has issued alerts for a whole slew of fish species including all tuna, swordfish, halibut, and others. So don't think that we are confining the long term damage to ourselves. (There's a movie called The Cove that explains the problem in detail and is very much worth watching on its own merits)
As I'm typing this, I am still trying to figure out what point you're trying to make. You seem to be alright that we wipe ourselves out, as long as we don't actually disintegrate the planet? Well, I'm talking about the welfare of the human race and I did think about it before typing.
If I'm still missing something, forgive me. Drunk Texans yee-hawing in your ear for 8 hours has its after effects too.
Sam Fisher
Banned
I've heard about that movie - The Cove. Japanese film, yes? About the Dolphins? Sad. 
Shifty
O.G.
My point was simply that the only damage we will do is to ourselves.
Admittedly, I was perhaps uncharacteristically aloof in that post; of course I am concerned about the harm we do to our environment!
Basically, I believe the onus is upon us to protect our environments in order to protect our own well being because ultimately the earth will right itself regardless.
Actually your wrong. Science has stated that if all nuclear devices where used the ensuring explosions would generate enough power to move the earth off it's axis. The consequences of such could only be guessed at, Maybe the planet would travel in space until it hit another planetary object. Maybe it would fall apart.
Shifty
O.G.
Well ... ... perhaps. But the earth could just as likely resume it's orbit. Really, who can say?
It wouldn't be possible anyway for all nuclear devices on the planet to be put into use (particularly at the same moment), as in the event of a nuclear war the ability of each foe to use this weaponry would be the first thing destroyed i.e through strategic strikes on installations. Thus, the majority, or at least a significant number of nukes would be rendered unusable. As well, these weapons target major population centers, likely removing those qualified to operate such weapons.
Be mindful about using the word 'wrong' unless you're 100% certain that you are 'right'.
Yea the rock could maybe still exist. But it would be similar to other planetary shit holes in the solar system incapable of sustaining life. It may never come around again until like a million years and by the time anything intelligent sprouts up the sun would probably be ready to supernova lol. Bleak, Bleak.
Exactly. Fuck recycling and the sheeple that do it.
Yea fuck it. All the materials are infinite because, well because god planted it there. A magical fount of the materium.
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