Subtle_Nod
Elfe Mécanique
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- 12/11/07
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HeartCore a dit:Nah not really, that's culture talking. We need (and are going to) get rid of the body. That's our only hope, get rid of the body, live virtual, act out all our stupidity and idioticies virtual, and please leave this and other planets be.
Human beings wanting to colonize other planets, seriously need some ego smashing...
I'll try not to sound like an ass, but that sounds a little over the top for what I actually said.
1: Ego smashing? I never said I would do it, or I would be the great messiah of doing it.
Let's face it, we are sitting ducks here. Hell, look long enough into the future and the sun will die. This planet is NOT a forever thing.
Buddhists are quite strong in their belief that "Everything changes". That includes the existance of this planet. It won't last eternity. Nothing does.
It is not Cultural either. It comes from having to prepare for when bad things happen and knowing at least SOME bad things are GUARANTEED to happen on Earth given a long enough time frame.
2: You can't know people can never leave this planet or that in 10,000 years they should not. I mean this observationally, it is not meant to cause offence - it takes a lot of ego to think that you can know the future of the entire universe so intimately.
You could draw parallels between my predictions and yours, but the main difference is that I am not giving you an oppinion as much as an assesment - the sun will die. No debate needed here. I do risk assesments all the time, all my work is mirrored offsite - if my office blows up and I survive, equipment be damned, we can have everything back up somewhere else within the hour on fresh PCs.
This is not unusual. Most places use some sort of disaster recovery for their data. Long gone are the days where if your bank's office blew up they forgot about your loan.
I imagine ALL KNOWN LIFE is worth more than a few hours of my time and a record of who owes what to whom, I merely suggest that we acknowledge this planet is not forever and if we never leave it, we die with it.
3: I can not tell you HOW we will come to collonise other planets. I can't claim knowledge there. I would not presume it. That is not my role here. If I was capable of doing it now, I would not be posting here. If the human race could do it successfully now, we would already have the Coca Cola planet and the Starbucks galaxy.
4: We definately do contribute something to global warming.
5: I don't think it will kill the whole planet. Might kill a lot of things on it, including people, likelyhood is, once the people start dying polution will start going down and the planet will stabalise itself. I do not think this is a solution by any means. I would just like to be clear I think we could be faced with extinction of some species, possibly us. If we die, we will be replaced given a long enough period of time.
6: The way we live now is definitely not sustainable. I agree.
7: I don't think we should give a real crap about global warming. I think if we live properly, polution will not be an issue. Tackling global warming is no better than telling them Big Macs are not healthy and then seeing them switch to KFC instead. If we fix global warming we will still have to deal with the fact we are not living in balance with the rest of the planet anyway.
Fix the imbalance, global warming is a non-issue. Otherwise we tackle the bee shortage next, the fish shortage, hell, soon there won't be any trees either.