Hurricanes Irma and Jose from the GOES-16 satellite:
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Mon Sep 11, 2017 1:58 am
#17
Re: Hurricane Harvey
Amazing pictures!
ALso, imma just leave this here...
ALso, imma just leave this here...
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Flatfingers wrote: 23.01.2017: "Show me the smoldering corpse of Perfectionist Josh"
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Mon Sep 11, 2017 8:56 am
#18
Re: Hurricane Harvey
That's awesome, Jan. That gave me a laugh.
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Mon Sep 11, 2017 11:45 pm
#19
Seriously though, the similarities man. I hope we don't see "The day after tomorrow" as a documentary in 50 years or so...
Re: Hurricane Harvey
Yeah. Had to laugh too the first time I saw it.
Seriously though, the similarities man. I hope we don't see "The day after tomorrow" as a documentary in 50 years or so...
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Flatfingers wrote: 23.01.2017: "Show me the smoldering corpse of Perfectionist Josh"
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Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:52 am
#20
Re: Hurricane Harvey
It won't. That movie was incredibly unrealistic. Besides, Earth will survive most of anything we throw at it, and so will life. It's survived worse than us. Whether we'll survive is a different matter.
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Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:03 am
#21
Re: Hurricane Harvey
I am Groot.
Please don't take my advice. You will wind up in jail if you do.
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Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:53 am
#22
good joke though!
Re: Hurricane Harvey
One of those length scales is not like the other
good joke though!
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Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:51 am
#23
Re: Hurricane Harvey
We'll not survive if we don't get off this planet. Fifty years ago, I thought we were on our way! Ho-hum!
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Thu Sep 14, 2017 3:01 am
#24
Re: Hurricane Harvey
Just fleeing from this planet is just a temporary solution. We need to get better with our energy efficiency and change our mindset. Or we will just go to another planet, completely drain it from its natural resources and destroy it's ecosystem and hope to the next planet. We would do this over and over again. I think it's more important to improve the current state than to hope for a better future.
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Flatfingers wrote: 23.01.2017: "Show me the smoldering corpse of Perfectionist Josh"
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 2:37 pm
#25
Re: Hurricane Harvey
Self-sustaining offworld colonies may be a necessary step for preserving the species until immortality drugs or The Singularity happens.
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 2:41 pm
#26
Re: Hurricane Harvey
Self-sustaining offworld colonies are a necessary step to begin with If it was up to me, we'd have that Mars colony already. I really want sci-fi stuff to start happening.
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 3:17 pm
#27
What's annoying is that it was happening. And then we mostly stopped. Infuriating.
Returning to the subject of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, though, the season's not over.
Jose is still churning away, and Lee exists but may remain a tropical storm due to shear, but Maria is potentially a threat for developing into another hurricane headed for the Antilles.
Re: Hurricane Harvey
What's annoying is that it was happening. And then we mostly stopped. Infuriating.
Returning to the subject of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, though, the season's not over.
Jose is still churning away, and Lee exists but may remain a tropical storm due to shear, but Maria is potentially a threat for developing into another hurricane headed for the Antilles.
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:08 am
#28
Re: Hurricane Harvey
How would immortality drugs remove the need for offworld colonies for species preservation?Flatfingers wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2017 2:37 pmSelf-sustaining offworld colonies may be a necessary step for preserving the species until immortality drugs or The Singularity happens.
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:22 am
#29
It's certainly speculative, but there's a plausible scenario under which immortality drugs cause humanity to lose its interest in expansion. This scenario assumes something like a decayed, decadent global culture that has lost interest in anything other than the perpetuation of its immediate pleasures forever. Tell me you can look at the world today and not think this is, at least, a thing humanity is capable of doing.
But to be fair, there's a more optimistic scenario: "Now that we're virtually immortal, we can travel among the stars at sub-light speeds." (This was the conceit that James Blish used in his fantastic "Cities in Flight" tetralogy, which I highly recommend.) This is also plausible, although it depends on enough inventive human beings working together under a shared agreement that exploring the universe is a thing worth doing. That's... possible.
TL;DR: I agree that immortality would not remove a rational need for offworld colonies for species preservation, but it might remove the desire to achieve this goal.
Re: Hurricane Harvey
Cornflakes_91 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:08 amHow would immortality drugs remove the need for offworld colonies for species preservation?Flatfingers wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2017 2:37 pmSelf-sustaining offworld colonies may be a necessary step for preserving the species until immortality drugs or The Singularity happens.
It's certainly speculative, but there's a plausible scenario under which immortality drugs cause humanity to lose its interest in expansion. This scenario assumes something like a decayed, decadent global culture that has lost interest in anything other than the perpetuation of its immediate pleasures forever. Tell me you can look at the world today and not think this is, at least, a thing humanity is capable of doing.
But to be fair, there's a more optimistic scenario: "Now that we're virtually immortal, we can travel among the stars at sub-light speeds." (This was the conceit that James Blish used in his fantastic "Cities in Flight" tetralogy, which I highly recommend.) This is also plausible, although it depends on enough inventive human beings working together under a shared agreement that exploring the universe is a thing worth doing. That's... possible.
TL;DR: I agree that immortality would not remove a rational need for offworld colonies for species preservation, but it might remove the desire to achieve this goal.
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:37 am
#30
Re: Hurricane Harvey
<nods> A very good read, is that. Oh for something like the spindizzy!Flatfingers wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:22 amThis was the conceit that James Blish used in his fantastic "Cities in Flight" tetralogy, which I highly recommend.
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