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Mr. Blonde · 06-24-2011, 08:55 PM

BBC News - World's oceans in 'shocking' decline

Ugly Bastard · 06-26-2011, 04:00 PM

Watch The End of the Line if that topic interests you. I've rarely eaten fish since.

Mr. Blonde · 08-25-2011, 09:18 AM

Case closed: “Climategate” was manufactured | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Mr. Blonde · 09-06-2011, 05:19 PM

The Sagan Series (part 7) - The Long Astronomical Perspective - YouTube

Mr. Blonde · 02-07-2012, 12:12 PM

Scientists: 'Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable, So How Do We Want To Do This?' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

thekremlin · 03-26-2012, 07:13 AM

We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic

In one of your papers on this topic you note that experts have estimated our total existential risk for this century to be somewhere around 10-20%. I know I can't be alone in thinking that is high. What's driving that?
Bostrom: I think what's driving it is the sense that humans are developing these very potent capabilities---we are doing unprecedented things, and there is a risk that something could go wrong. Even with nuclear weapons, if you rewind the tape you notice that it turned out that in order to make a nuclear weapon you had to have these very rare raw materials like highly enriched uranium or plutonium, which are very difficult to get. But suppose it had turned out that there was some technological technique that allowed you to make a nuclear weapon by baking sand in a microwave oven or something like that. If it had turned out that way then where would we be now? Presumably once that discovery had been made civilization would have been doomed.

Kremlin says: totally agree with this. The really nice thing about nucular weapons right now is that they're really hard to make. You need a lot of money, a lot of infastructure, and a lot of time to enrich the uranium. At some point, there will* be some scientific breakthrough that makes it so that any country can have a nucular bomb. Or something else, similar, to kill us all. It's completely inevitable.

*The only way around this is to forcibly limit research, because research is still expensive. Say "You can't research anything that could possibly lead to technology that can be applied to weapons that will kill us all." But this is a) difficult and b) unethical, so I don't think something like this could happen.

I was just thinking the other day: the chances that we see a nucular weapon used in our lifetime has to be greater than 50%, right?

f3lix · 03-26-2012, 02:50 PM

Video of the bombs being dropped on Japan is a wake-up call to most of humanity and a likely deterrent for future use.

Ugly Bastard · 03-26-2012, 04:10 PM

Here's a scenario I heard about recently that could theoretically destroy all of humanity: Grey goo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The crazy thing is that all it would take is one person building a nanobot whose sole purpose is to self-replicate to trigger a potentially irreversible chain of events that would turn the planet to dust.

thekremlin · 03-26-2012, 04:41 PM

More like Gay Goo.

Saint DH · 04-22-2012, 10:22 PM

Couldn't think of a better place to put this.

"If I wanted America to fail" - YouTube

Ugly Bastard · 04-23-2012, 04:47 AM

That dude must be the life of all the parties he attends.

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 04-23-2012, 09:06 PM

I regret watching half of that.

DJ FC · 04-24-2012, 01:18 AM

I kinda feel like I'm watching DH.

Repugnant Abomination · 04-24-2012, 01:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry

Couldn't think of a better place to put this.

"If I wanted America to fail" - YouTube

Mr. Blonde · 04-24-2012, 02:34 AM

Love the Batman music in the background to blatantly conservative tripe. I bet DH got a hard-on watching that vid.

That dude looks like a young Orson Welles btw.

Mr. Blonde · 04-27-2012, 12:15 PM

Great interview, the guy who came up with: Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic

Ironic Mustache · 04-27-2012, 12:52 PM

The human race is too big to fail.

ninjaface · 04-27-2012, 01:34 PM

Reusable spaceplane that takes off and lands with the use of conventional run ways.

BBC News - Key tests for Skylon spaceplane project

Repugnant Abomination · 04-29-2012, 06:03 PM

Michio Kaku: Will Mankind Destroy Itself? - YouTube

thekremlin · 05-09-2012, 03:43 AM

BBC News - Google gets Nevada driving licence for self-drive car

thekremlin · 05-29-2012, 10:16 AM

Pretty soon we're going to start getting arrested for crimes we didn't commit yet.

Leap Motion

You will be able to get this wherever electronics are sold.

(Don't you mean whenever electronics are sold?

Mr. Blonde · 05-30-2012, 11:09 PM

We still need inbred, drugged-up psychics in bathtubs, buddy.

thekremlin · 05-31-2012, 03:08 AM

Quit being a smartass, before I smack you with a sickstick.

Repugnant Abomination · 06-07-2012, 03:32 PM

Is Humanity Pushing Earth Past a Tipping Point? | Wired Science | Wired.com

The World as We Know It Is About to End, Say Some Really Frightened Scientists - Global - The Atlantic Wire

Saint DH · 06-07-2012, 05:16 PM

In that bottom article you can clearly see all three points of the iron triangle of environmental doom and gloom.

02-07-2012, 12:12 PM	#180 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 278288	Scientists: 'Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable, So How Do We Want To Do This?' \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
	Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. ― Terence McKenna

04-23-2012, 09:06 PM	#187 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,316 Internets: 284585	I regret watching half of that.
	#YOLO

04-24-2012, 01:18 AM	#188 (permalink)
DJ FC MURICAN Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Virginia Posts: 5,136 Internets: 250185	I kinda feel like I'm watching DH.
	The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

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Ironic Mustache G'd up from the feet up. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Cali Posts: 7,146 Supreme Emperor of the Jiu Jitsu Shit Forum?: Yes Internets: 114735	The human race is too big to fail.
	Creeping around as I please nonchalantly like any other Supreme Emperor might.

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Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 278288	BBC News - World's oceans in 'shocking' decline

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Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 278288	Case closed: “Climategate” was manufactured \| Bad Astronomy \| Discover Magazine

03-26-2012, 02:50 PM	#182 (permalink)
f3lix Gangnam Style Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: DH's Massage Parlor Posts: 6,383 Internets: 213510	Video of the bombs being dropped on Japan is a wake-up call to most of humanity and a likely deterrent for future use.

03-26-2012, 04:10 PM	#183 (permalink)
Ugly Bastard Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 13,643 Internets: 247330	Here's a scenario I heard about recently that could theoretically destroy all of humanity: Grey goo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The crazy thing is that all it would take is one person building a nanobot whose sole purpose is to self-replicate to trigger a potentially irreversible chain of events that would turn the planet to dust.

04-23-2012, 04:47 AM	#186 (permalink)
Ugly Bastard Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 13,643 Internets: 247330	That dude must be the life of all the parties he attends.

04-24-2012, 02:34 AM	#190 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 278288	Love the Batman music in the background to blatantly conservative tripe. I bet DH got a hard-on watching that vid. That dude looks like a young Orson Welles btw.

04-27-2012, 12:15 PM	#191 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 278288	Great interview, the guy who came up with: Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic

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ninjaface Level 20 Holothetan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Space Posts: 5,245 Internets: 210144	Reusable spaceplane that takes off and lands with the use of conventional run ways. BBC News - Key tests for Skylon spaceplane project

05-30-2012, 11:09 PM	#197 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 278288	We still need inbred, drugged-up psychics in bathtubs, buddy.

06-07-2012, 03:32 PM	#199 (permalink)
Repugnant Abomination Almost there... Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,979 Internets: 161638	Is Humanity Pushing Earth Past a Tipping Point? \| Wired Science \| Wired.com The World as We Know It Is About to End, Say Some Really Frightened Scientists - Global - The Atlantic Wire

06-07-2012, 05:16 PM	#200 (permalink)
Saint DH Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 6,142 Internets: 284753	In that bottom article you can clearly see all three points of the iron triangle of environmental doom and gloom.