583 Years Left for Earth

[93henfan]

If you resist to persist, I will be happy to assist.

He may be awesome, but I hope he's not farsighted.

Post bigger pictures, dipshit. There are a lot of old people on this site.

[CAA Flagship]

He may be awesome, but I hope he's not farsighted.

Post bigger pictures, dipshit. There are a lot of old people on this site.

This. Fuck.
And type in caps so I can hear you.

[Grizalltheway]

Thank you for your input. I'll take it under advisement.

[CAA Flagship]

Thank you for your input. I'll take it under advisement.

Don't patronize us.
Cut your hair and get off our lawns.

[VictorG]

I don't know about the specifics of how long we have but I do believe that if we want to sustain our species a time will come when we will need to find other worlds to spread out onto.

I have a list going of people that need to leave NOW! How big do you think the space ship will be?

[Col Hogan]

I don't know about the specifics of how long we have but I do believe that if we want to sustain our species a time will come when we will need to find other worlds to spread out onto.

I have a list going of people that need to leave NOW! How big do you think the space ship will be?

[Ivytalk]

I vote to give JSO his own spaceship.

[Grizalltheway]

I vote to give JSO his own spaceship.

I have a feeling whatever planet sent him here made sure it was a one way trip.

[AZGrizFan]

583 years? That's very....uh....."specific"?

[GannonFan]

583 years? That's very....uh....."specific"?

I can just imagine 583 years from now there'll be quite the hysteria in the lead-up to the year that that ancient sage from centuries ago, Hawking, said the world was going to end. He'll be like that future world's version of the Mayan Calendar.

As for the exactness of the year, I think people are conditioned to not trust rounded numbers. You make it specific like that and people take notice.

[Ibanez]

The Earth could use a good pandemic. Just sayin...

[bandl]

I vote to give JSO his own spaceship.

I have a feeling whatever planet sent him here made sure it was a one way trip.

Probably a planet inhabited by only small children

[VictorG]

Probably a planet inhabited by only small children

Kind of like Egriz..........

[Chizzang]

We ain't leaving this solar system...
Our choices are our own moon and Mars... and that's it

We aren't built to be in space for very long periods - gravity is a huge part of our DNA
and leaving this solar system even at 100X the speed of light won't get us anywhere anytime soon...

I have a feeling the physics is going to be much more challenging than the physiology. You can use a centripetal force to create gravity. I have no idea how you travel hundreds of trillions of miles without basically having a voyage that will have to span generations, unless there's some property of space we don't know about that can be exploited.

There's a pretty heated debate about how effective centrifugal force is in space...
As mass changes based on its proximity to other mass

[GannonFan]

As mass changes based on its proximity to other mass

Kind of how an overweight person looks down right skinny when standing next to an incredibly obese person?

[Chizzang]

As mass changes based on its proximity to other mass

Kind of how an overweight person looks down right skinny when standing next to an incredibly obese person?

[GannonFan]

Kind of how an overweight person looks down right skinny when standing next to an incredibly obese person?

That's why girls will often have a fat friend - relative attractiveness. Or so I'm told.

[AZGrizFan]

583 years? That's very....uh....."specific"?

I can just imagine 583 years from now there'll be quite the hysteria in the lead-up to the year that that ancient sage from centuries ago, Hawking, said the world was going to end. He'll be like that future world's version of the Mayan Calendar.

As for the exactness of the year, I think people are conditioned to not trust rounded numbers. You make it specific like that and people take notice.

Actually, it's only 583 years because he picked the year 2600 (a rounded number ).

Also, I'd equate him with Nostradumbass more than the Mayan calendar....

[JohnStOnge]

I think just the sheer rate of population growth is a bigger issue than CO2.

You believe that old Population Bomb bullshyt? That’s so 1968.

I never read the Population Bomb. I just know that we have overcome many of the checks on our population growth. We are a species that under "natural" circumstances would have a life expectancy of something in the vicinity of 30 years. There is a limit to the population of Homo sapiens the planet can sustain. And the rate of population growth is getting very high.

[grizzaholic]

I can just imagine 583 years from now there'll be quite the hysteria in the lead-up to the year that that ancient sage from centuries ago, Hawking, said the world was going to end. He'll be like that future world's version of the Mayan Calendar.

As for the exactness of the year, I think people are conditioned to not trust rounded numbers. You make it specific like that and people take notice.

Actually, it's only 583 years because he picked the year 2600 (a rounded number ).

Also, I'd equate him with Nostradumbass more than the Mayan calendar....

And he isn't counting the mass extermination of living organisms during WWIII,WWIV, and WWV.

[SeattleGriz]

Does he not know that during the Mesozoic era the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere was 10x larger than today?

The life on earth at that time was suited for the CO2 in the atmosphere...
Almost nothing alive today is suited for that

66 Million years is a long time
583 isn't

God's going to need to intelligently design us faster now for that atmosphere
He can do it - we all know that... I'm counting on it

Such a fail.

[AshevilleApp]

I give us about 5 years...

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Beat me to it.

[Grizalltheway]

The life on earth at that time was suited for the CO2 in the atmosphere...
Almost nothing alive today is suited for that

66 Million years is a long time
583 isn't

God's going to need to intelligently design us faster now for that atmosphere
He can do it - we all know that... I'm counting on it

Such a fail.

Do elaborate

[JohnStOnge]

Does he not know that during the Mesozoic era the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere was 10x larger than today?

The life on earth at that time was suited for the CO2 in the atmosphere...
Almost nothing alive today is suited for that

66 Million years is a long time
583 isn't

God's going to need to intelligently design us faster now for that atmosphere
He can do it - we all know that... I'm counting on it

I think our species could survive in atmospheric and climatological conditions such as those in the Mesozoic era. We're very adaptable. It's believed that both global CO2 levels and global temperatures were much higher then than they are now. Also much higher than what they're projected by climate scientists to be 100 years from now if we take the "business as usual" approach. It's also believed that there were large numbers of oxygen breathing land animals.

Some believe rising oxygen levels contributed to our evolution (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/new ... xygen.html). But now that we exist I think we could handle somewhat lower oxygen levels such as those prevalent during parts of the Mesozoic. People live in low oxygen environments today. High altitudes, for instance.

[Chizzang]

The life on earth at that time was suited for the CO2 in the atmosphere...
Almost nothing alive today is suited for that

66 Million years is a long time
583 isn't

God's going to need to intelligently design us faster now for that atmosphere
He can do it - we all know that... I'm counting on it

I think our species could survive in atmospheric and climatological conditions such as those in the Mesozoic era. We're very adaptable. It's believed that both global CO2 levels and global temperatures were much higher then than they are now. Also much higher than what they're projected by climate scientists to be 100 years from now if we take the "business as usual" approach. It's also believed that there were large numbers of oxygen breathing land animals.

Some believe rising oxygen levels contributed to our evolution (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/new ... xygen.html). But now that we exist I think we could handle somewhat lower oxygen levels such as those prevalent during parts of the Mesozoic. People live in low oxygen environments today. High altitudes, for instance.

Sure,
We could probably survive
But simultaneously we're completely dependent on insects
like bees for example

The real question isn't about humans
it's about catastrophic system collapse at the microbiological level