Very interesting "Mynah type" article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6057734.stm




Any scientists? Tell me it ain't true.

anyone can make predictions when nobody alive today will be around to see if its true

The way the environment is going, there might not be any human life on earth in 500 years, let alone 100,000.

The Flaming Bails will still be going strong, though...

With everyone getting fatter as well as taller I doubt people will look that slim.

I immediately thought of HG Wells when I saw the headline.

Anyways, there are a lot of other factors. Environment and religion not the least of them.

None of us will be there, so who gives a sh!t really?

Before 100,000 years is up, i'm pretty sure we'll have learned how to make adult humans in a lab!

The sooner human beings realise how little and meaningless they are in terms of the bigger picture, the sooner we'll all start enjoying ourselves and each other a little more.

Not only are we arrogant enough to think we are going to destroy the earth, we think we can save it, too! But also "conquer" space! What a hoot!! We can't even live together on earth and we think we can rule the universe!!

The sun has a life span and when it dies it won't giving you a warning to clear up and pack your bags. It'll be goodnight one and all, baby.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

- Kurt Vonnegut.

Sans Souci wrote:
The sun has a life span and when it dies it won't giving you a warning to clear up and pack your bags. It'll be goodnight one and all, baby.

If there are Humans on earth at that time you can be damn sure they've devoted the previous 2000 years to building the technology to get the hell off earth and beyond before it happens

JKLever wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:
The sun has a life span and when it dies it won't giving you a warning to clear up and pack your bags. It'll be goodnight one and all, baby.

If there are Humans on earth at that time you can be damn sure they've devoted the previous 2000 years to building the technology to get the hell off earth and beyond before it happens

It's not going to happen. Where are they going to go? and how are they going to get there?

Technology is dependent upon nature and and the earth has been battered quite badly over the last few years by a few little tiny weather storms. And our defense and ability to deal with the aftermath has been laughable and often woeful.

I think we should get things right and look closer to home here on earth instead of dreaming the impossible. The money the US invest on the space programme is hardly justified in the wake of such events like Katrina where they couldn't even house and feed their own people who were in need.

Humans are just not that good. (yet!)

Sans Souci wrote:

JKLever wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:
The sun has a life span and when it dies it won't giving you a warning to clear up and pack your bags. It'll be goodnight one and all, baby.

If there are Humans on earth at that time you can be damn sure they've devoted the previous 2000 years to building the technology to get the hell off earth and beyond before it happens

It's not going to happen. Where are they going to go? and how are they going to get there?

Technology is dependent upon nature and and the earth has been battered quite badly over the last few years by a few little tiny weather storms. And our defense and ability to deal with the aftermath has been laughable and often woeful.

I think we should get things right and look closer to home here on eath instead of dreaming the impossible. The money the US invest on the space programme is hardly justified in the wake of such events like Katrina where they couldn't even house and feed there own people who were in need.

Totally disagree - events drive technology. For example, as oil reserves dry up, oil becomes more expensive. Alternative sources of energy will be developed because it becomes more economic to do so.

Sans Souci wrote:
It's not going to happen. Where are they going to go? and how are they going to get there?

Think of the advances made in the last 100 years. It's more unlikely that inter-galaxy travel wont happen than will, IMO

Basil wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:

JKLever wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:
The sun has a life span and when it dies it won't giving you a warning to clear up and pack your bags. It'll be goodnight one and all, baby.

If there are Humans on earth at that time you can be damn sure they've devoted the previous 2000 years to building the technology to get the hell off earth and beyond before it happens

It's not going to happen. Where are they going to go? and how are they going to get there?

Technology is dependent upon nature and and the earth has been battered quite badly over the last few years by a few little tiny weather storms. And our defense and ability to deal with the aftermath has been laughable and often woeful.

I think we should get things right and look closer to home here on eath instead of dreaming the impossible. The money the US invest on the space programme is hardly justified in the wake of such events like Katrina where they couldn't even house and feed there own people who were in need.

Totally disagree - events drive technology. For example, as oil reserves dry up, oil becomes more expensive. Alternative sources of energy will be developed because it becomes more economic to do so.

That is true. But you cannot stop the natural course that the universe as a whole is on.

That's bad administration by a few incompetent people. The people who are responsible for new discoveries, inventions, science, are not elected for their charms and propaganda by a popular vote.

I doubt that if we survive till the sun threatens the extinction of life on earth, we wouldn't have devised some way to preserve ourselves and just fade away. But it could happen.

Sans Souci wrote:

Basil wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:

JKLever wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:
The sun has a life span and when it dies it won't giving you a warning to clear up and pack your bags. It'll be goodnight one and all, baby.

If there are Humans on earth at that time you can be damn sure they've devoted the previous 2000 years to building the technology to get the hell off earth and beyond before it happens

It's not going to happen. Where are they going to go? and how are they going to get there?

Technology is dependent upon nature and and the earth has been battered quite badly over the last few years by a few little tiny weather storms. And our defense and ability to deal with the aftermath has been laughable and often woeful.

I think we should get things right and look closer to home here on eath instead of dreaming the impossible. The money the US invest on the space programme is hardly justified in the wake of such events like Katrina where they couldn't even house and feed there own people who were in need.

Totally disagree - events drive technology. For example, as oil reserves dry up, oil becomes more expensive. Alternative sources of energy will be developed because it becomes more economic to do so.

That is true. But you cannot stop the natural course that the universe as a whole is on.

Neither you or I know what course the whole universe is on! We can't begin to be certain what course this planet is on really.

JKLever wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:
It's not going to happen. Where are they going to go? and how are they going to get there?

Think of the advances made in the last 100 years. It's more unlikely that inter-galaxy travel wont happen than will, IMO

Humans can only survive on the elements of this earth, so to pack up shop and move to somewhere that we've discovered that is perfect for us to live on and start afresh is going to take some effort. We are talking about speed of light travel here.

My point is that I don't think spending such money is justified when there's plenty of work to be done here. We're not even half way to getting ourselves right on this little dot yet.

Advances is technology are all wonderful but everything comes at price and the price has been the destruction of the earth at a rate far quicker than it's natural course. So whatever we do and where ever we go I feel we will ruin whatever it is we set our sights on.

I believe that we are living in probably the last great stage of humanity, when I say stage I mean a period that might be a few thousand years. If, through all that into another age we are still around it's quite possible that we will look back on ourselves at this period and say "what a bunch of stupid fools they were back then - poisoning and killing themselves and their surroundings."

Any shred of scientific respectability this article had (and there wasn't very much: he strikes me as the type who spends altogether too much time in a darkened room) evaporated the moment that the fact that this man is associated, even vaguely, with Bravo TV was revealed.

Bastion of the intellect, it is not, but any mention of pert breasts, and they're in there like a shot.

Basil wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:

Basil wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:

JKLever wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:
The sun has a life span and when it dies it won't giving you a warning to clear up and pack your bags. It'll be goodnight one and all, baby.

If there are Humans on earth at that time you can be damn sure they've devoted the previous 2000 years to building the technology to get the hell off earth and beyond before it happens

It's not going to happen. Where are they going to go? and how are they going to get there?

Technology is dependent upon nature and and the earth has been battered quite badly over the last few years by a few little tiny weather storms. And our defense and ability to deal with the aftermath has been laughable and often woeful.

I think we should get things right and look closer to home here on eath instead of dreaming the impossible. The money the US invest on the space programme is hardly justified in the wake of such events like Katrina where they couldn't even house and feed there own people who were in need.

Totally disagree - events drive technology. For example, as oil reserves dry up, oil becomes more expensive. Alternative sources of energy will be developed because it becomes more economic to do so.

That is true. But you cannot stop the natural course that the universe as a whole is on.

Neither you or I know what course the whole universe is on! We can't begin to be certain what course this planet is on really.

Of course. We only know what we are told. Maybe it's all a game being played out for some far flung planets entertainment.

Did someone mention pert breasts - where, where?

Practically all the posts contain the "we" word...

Fellas - "we" ain't gonna be here in 100,000 years time ... so WGAF ...

It conjures up visons of a herd of dinosaurs having a huddle over a meal of fried chimpanzees, 2 million years BC discussing how they, the dinosaurs, were going to develop over the next million or so years ... and those stupid chimps weren't going to get a look in on future plans ... get the drift?!

WTF knows what's going to happen in the next decade let alone 100 decades from now!
People who speculate - worse still, write about - things to do with humanity or this planet beyond 100 years from the present time are either talking absolute bullshit or else theorising to suit their own mandate, or, likelier still, watching their bank account swell.

Remember back in 1970 when the first oil 'crisis' hit the world ... the gloom and doom pundits who proclaimed "there will be no more oil beyond 2000 " .... well, fact is, there's enough to last a further 100 years - and then some more!

Enjoy what's now - keep things in perspective and proportion within sensible parameters and guidelines ... the rest looks after itself.

Sans Souci wrote:

Basil wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:

Basil wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:

JKLever wrote:

Sans Souci wrote:
The sun has a life span and when it dies it won't giving you a warning to clear up and pack your bags. It'll be goodnight one and all, baby.

If there are Humans on earth at that time you can be damn sure they've devoted the previous 2000 years to building the technology to get the hell off earth and beyond before it happens

It's not going to happen. Where are they going to go? and how are they going to get there?

Technology is dependent upon nature and and the earth has been battered quite badly over the last few years by a few little tiny weather storms. And our defense and ability to deal with the aftermath has been laughable and often woeful.

I think we should get things right and look closer to home here on eath instead of dreaming the impossible. The money the US invest on the space programme is hardly justified in the wake of such events like Katrina where they couldn't even house and feed there own people who were in need.

Totally disagree - events drive technology. For example, as oil reserves dry up, oil becomes more expensive. Alternative sources of energy will be developed because it becomes more economic to do so.

That is true. But you cannot stop the natural course that the universe as a whole is on.

Neither you or I know what course the whole universe is on! We can't begin to be certain what course this planet is on really.

Of course. We only know what we are told. Maybe it's all a game being played out for some far flung planets entertainment.

you mean like an inter-galactic "big brother", or indeed a snuff movie

"Maybe it's all a game being played out for some far flung planets entertainment."

Aye ... just as depicted in the final scene of MiB 1 !!
A game of marbles ...

Women, on the other hand, will develop lighter, smooth,
hairless skin, large clear eyes, pert breasts, glossy hair, and even
features.

Lucky things.
Imagine never having to shave.

Pert breasts again!

There already are two species . . . Aussie uber-lords and the sooky underclasses . . . (though some of the latter have pert breasts).

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6057734.stm




Any scientists? Tell me it ain't true.

Squarer jaws AND receding chins?