Solar power

[AxeD]

Shots fired

[nowaysj]

Shots fired

Knife waived threateningly.

Know your context, m8.

[magma]

Naw, that's a friendly punch on the arm.

I might wave my knife around later if anyone wants a fight. Tell M8son I'll bring my 5 Panel.

[AxeD]

I have already fired several shots though. You are literally bringing a knife to a gunfight.

[nowaysj]

Oh shit, that was you firing shots? My bad.

Here, have a cup of ebola.

You just brought a gun to an ebola fight.

[magma]

Guns for show, knives for a pro.

[hubb]

not reading any of this because im a hippie

but recent bit I heard on public radio was that asphalt is pretty useful as part in a process very similar to solar powering but with a heavier yield. So having roads wont be a problem but could instead power for example the cars driving on top of them.

[rickyarbino]

you know what I meant

the earth as a habitable environment for humans

Maybe for our civilisation.

I'll be accused of false optimism, I'm sure, but I still find it very hard to believe that a species that has survived the climate change, natural disasters and plagues that ours has in the past 200,000 years would actually let itself go extinct. We're survivors... even if it meant another 100,000 years of hunter/gathering, we'd keep on fucking.

About 6% of all the humans who ever lived are alive, so we're also pretty fucking dope at getting whacked.

Not entirely sure I understand what point you're trying to make.


Can we add this as an auto-reply to rickyarbino posts please?

The point was that we're going to extinct.

[rickyarbino]

not reading any of this because im a hippie

but recent bit I heard on public radio was that asphalt is pretty useful as part in a process very similar to solar powering but with a heavier yield. So having roads wont be a problem but could instead power for example the cars driving on top of them.

Maintenance there seems pretty difficult and costly, do you remember if they discussed that?

[magma]

you know what I meant

the earth as a habitable environment for humans

Maybe for our civilisation.

I'll be accused of false optimism, I'm sure, but I still find it very hard to believe that a species that has survived the climate change, natural disasters and plagues that ours has in the past 200,000 years would actually let itself go extinct. We're survivors... even if it meant another 100,000 years of hunter/gathering, we'd keep on fucking.

About 6% of all the humans who ever lived are alive, so we're also pretty fucking dope at getting whacked.

Not entirely sure I understand what point you're trying to make.


Can we add this as an auto-reply to rickyarbino posts please?

The point was that we're going to extinct.

I got that much, but why? Because there are a lot of us now?

That sounds like a lot of potential survivors to major catastrophe to me. It only takes two to restart things and we've got 3.5 billion chances.

[rickyarbino]

Nah, 'cause we're stnuc who obsess about living when we're dying anyway, which makes the future a harder place to live. We can't keep this up forever. Perhaps that's just opinion though.

[magma]

Pretty sure it's all opinion when you're trying to predict a hypothetical future.

All I'm saying is that humans have been through an awful lot. I think people mistake the end of civilisation for extinction, tbh... civilisation is always a precarious thing. Civilisation has only been here for less than 5% of the human species, though - and our species has been through almost everything the Earth's climate can throw at it. It is far stronger and more intelligent than a lot of people give it credit for. That's why we're here and all the other bipedal primates are extinct.

We're pretty fucking neat, man.

[Forum]

Which one will it be though, 12 monkeys or Terminator?

[nowaysj]

Why not have both, FOR ONE LOW PRICE.

[nowaysj]

[rickyarbino]

Pretty sure it's all opinion when you're trying to predict a hypothetical future.

All I'm saying is that humans have been through an awful lot. I think people mistake the end of civilisation for extinction, tbh... civilisation is always a precarious thing. Civilisation has only been here for less than 5% of the human species, though - and our species has been through almost everything the Earth's climate can throw at it. It is far stronger and more intelligent than a lot of people give it credit for. That's why we're here and all the other bipedal primates are extinct.

We're pretty fucking neat, man.

I see what you're saying but if we won't ever stop being able to die, and since there's always going to be cause for someone to die, what would be the point of us being the animals that continued to exist?
It's a bit peak if you think about it, "we're special because we killed everyone else"? Like I'm just a killing machine, I don't really see it.

Extinction's just a part of it all.

[magma]

Pretty sure it's all opinion when you're trying to predict a hypothetical future.

All I'm saying is that humans have been through an awful lot. I think people mistake the end of civilisation for extinction, tbh... civilisation is always a precarious thing. Civilisation has only been here for less than 5% of the human species, though - and our species has been through almost everything the Earth's climate can throw at it. It is far stronger and more intelligent than a lot of people give it credit for. That's why we're here and all the other bipedal primates are extinct.

We're pretty fucking neat, man.

I see what you're saying but if we won't ever stop being able to die, and since there's always going to be cause for someone to die, what would be the point of us being the animals that continued to exist?
It's a bit peak if you think about it, "we're special because we killed everyone else"? Like I'm just a killing machine, I don't really see it.

Extinction's just a part of it all.

There's a big difference between killing and out-surviving.

For example, there's no real evidence that we exterminated Neanderthal man (a larger and more intelligent animal than us) - it's just as likely that they died out because they needed more nutrition than they could gather in an ice age. We were more efficient and banded together in larger groups, so we survived.

There isn't any "point" to any species evolving, surviving or going extinct, but that's a very different conversation.

Individuals can some ten million ways to die... but as I said, survival of the species only takes TWO to find a reason to live.

[AxeD]

Oh shit, that was you firing shots? My bad.

Here, have a cup of ebola.

You just brought a gun to an ebola fight.

I didn't respond because I drank the whole cup of ebola and almost died.
But aside from my Smiths & Wesson.. I also have The Cure.

#excellentpun
#ebrola

[hubb]

not reading any of this because im a hippie

but recent bit I heard on public radio was that asphalt is pretty useful as part in a process very similar to solar powering but with a heavier yield. So having roads wont be a problem but could instead power for example the cars driving on top of them.

Maintenance there seems pretty difficult and costly, do you remember if they discussed that?

Not in the sence that the asphalt is a component and that the money is already spent on it. So it's cost efficient because of exactly that. It would mean that the people that do the asphalting could have their job evolve into something even more useful aswell. I think an equivalent (that doesn't exactly exist yet) would be like magnet trains -so it's on top of being sort of green, much safer than regular road travel - because you could power down the cars from a far in a monitoring situation..

[sigbowls]

the coolest city would have underground trains and tunnels for motorcycles and above ground there would be solar roadways.

solar roadways wouldnt be very good in here though