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Post by peterboat on Oct 12, 2019 9:15:58 GMT
greens/environmentalists/flatearthers/........ hell, humans generally, think we live on a world that runs along nice clear, stable lines. Sigh !!! We live on a tectonically unstable planet circling a variable star in a wildly variable orbit. We are positioned on the outer spiral arm of a galaxy which may or may not have a black hole as it's centre. Positioned in an area of space full of vast quantities of rubble left over from the formation of this and maybe many other solar systems, all travelling at high speeds in every direction imaginable. We think of 100 years as being a enormously long time ....... but live in a universe where a million years is just an eyeblink. Peter is probably right, the industrial revolution and the burning of fossil fuels is probably the butterfly's wing of chaos theory. If it wasn't that, it would have been something else. the balance of nature is out of sync and tinkering round the edges with environmentalism is simply that .... tinkering round the edges. That all seems a tad depressing.. I guess I'll just get on with doing my little bit but balance it with getting the most out of life. Seems strange in the vastness of things how folk allow the triviality of day to day events to demoralise and upset them. But I suppose the trivial distracts from the whole pic and folks on the whole are self cantered and just focus on themselves. Thats all we can do Patty get on with our lives, within ten years if the large lump of rock is going to get us, I would hope that we would have developed something to destroy it fingers crossed
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Post by patty on Oct 12, 2019 11:51:28 GMT
That all seems a tad depressing.. I guess I'll just get on with doing my little bit but balance it with getting the most out of life. Seems strange in the vastness of things how folk allow the triviality of day to day events to demoralise and upset them. But I suppose the trivial distracts from the whole pic and folks on the whole are self cantered and just focus on themselves. Thats all we can do Patty get on with our lives, within ten years if the large lump of rock is going to get us, I would hope that we would have developed something to destroy it fingers crossed Thats true, I am sure there are boffins busy researching wot to do....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 15:45:35 GMT
Thats all we can do Patty get on with our lives, within ten years if the large lump of rock is going to get us, I would hope that we would have developed something to destroy it fingers crossed Thats true, I am sure there are boffins busy researching wot to do.... The good news is that the aforementioned asteroid is not going to hit the Earth. The bad news is that there is currently nothing in existence capable of stopping it if it were to, nor is it likely that any boffin or group of boffins (a cogitation of boffins?) will have magicked anything into being that could in time. You really shouldn't take anything that is said on this thread and many others seriously. But particularly this one. Alcoholism never seemed so aspirational.
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Post by patty on Oct 12, 2019 18:45:17 GMT
Thats true, I am sure there are boffins busy researching wot to do.... The good news is that the aforementioned asteroid is not going to hit the Earth. The bad news is that there is currently nothing in existence capable of stopping it if it were to, nor is it likely that any boffin or group of boffins (a cogitation of boffins?) will have magicked anything into being that could in time. You really shouldn't take anything that is said on this thread and many others seriously. But particularly this one. Alcoholism never seemed so aspirational. I'm known to take stuff too seriously..the kids used to fabricate so much just to see what I'd believe... Fraid I'm not very good at spotting when to believe and when not to Still no matter I'm surviving..
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