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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 27, 2009 15:08:32 GMT -5
"It's not death, it's ascending to Heaven without dying! You're just being a closed-minded atheist, & persecuting me, & such!"
Also, I think a major nuclear war would probably knock out our technology, so the winter could very well get us.
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Post by Tiger on Jul 27, 2009 15:18:57 GMT -5
Also, I think a major nuclear war would probably knock out our technology, so the winter could very well get us. The K/T extinction took thousands of years. If the dinosaurs can hang on that long, we can do the same, and probably succeed where they did not by outlasting the calamity. We don't need as much food, we're warm-blooded and therefore less dependent on direct sunlight, and we're sapient.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 27, 2009 17:16:31 GMT -5
Yes, but that's a different type of disaster, altogether. What I'm picturing is an event where damn near every square inch of land on Earth gets bombarded with some kind of nulear blast.
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Post by Old Viking on Jul 27, 2009 19:26:42 GMT -5
Who's helping them count?
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Post by Tiger on Jul 27, 2009 19:53:57 GMT -5
Yes, but that's a different type of disaster, altogether. What I'm picturing is an event where damn near every square inch of land on Earth gets bombarded with some kind of nulear blast. You said nuclear winter, which is completely different. And yeah, that'd kill us off real quick. That's a pretty unlikely scenario, though.
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Post by Jedi Knight on Jul 27, 2009 20:18:23 GMT -5
Who's helping them count? They manage themselves. You know, ten fingers each, and there's a lot of them.
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Post by SimSim on Jul 27, 2009 20:25:27 GMT -5
Don't forget about toes too.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 27, 2009 20:34:00 GMT -5
Yes, but that's a different type of disaster, altogether. What I'm picturing is an event where damn near every square inch of land on Earth gets bombarded with some kind of nulear blast. You said nuclear winter, which is completely different. And yeah, that'd kill us off real quick. That's a pretty unlikely scenario, though. No, it's not completely different. A nuclear winter would follow an epic series of nuclear blasts. And I don't see it as being any more unlikely than any other apocalyptic scenario that keeps the world in-tact, quite frankly.
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Post by Tiger on Jul 27, 2009 21:19:09 GMT -5
No, it's not completely different. A nuclear winter would follow an epic series of nuclear blasts. Yes it would. But the threat posed by nuclear winter is very different from the threat posed by every square inch of land on Earth getting nuked. You don't find it unlikely that someone will both amass that many nukes and use them in such a manner? It's distinctly possible that a nuclear winter will happen. It's far less likely that the blasts causing it will be fairly evenly spread over the entire globe such that "damn near every square inch of land on Earth gets bombarded with some kind of nulear blast." They'll be concentrated around the major population centers of whatever nations were idiotic enough to go shooting off nukes in the first place.
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Post by clockworkgirl21 on Jul 27, 2009 22:12:06 GMT -5
I'd feel more sorry for them in they weren't so damned hateful.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 27, 2009 23:43:10 GMT -5
It's not that I find it incredibly likely, I just find other apocalypse scenarios equally unlikely.
Or, rather, other scenarios that would produce the same results.
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Post by antichrist on Jul 27, 2009 23:44:52 GMT -5
"It's not death, it's ascending to Heaven without dying! You're just being a closed-minded atheist, & persecuting me, & such!" Well of course, they want to go to heaven without the scary dying part.
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Post by Hades on Jul 28, 2009 4:57:00 GMT -5
"It's not death, it's ascending to Heaven without dying! You're just being a closed-minded atheist, & persecuting me, & such!" Well of course, they want to go to heaven without the scary dying part. Indeed. It's even been documented.
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Post by dasfuchs on Jul 28, 2009 8:41:04 GMT -5
They count up until the day the Rapture happens. I'll laugh when they realize they've kept it going for a decade and still nothing has happened. Count up? When did it start - and when supposedly is it supposed to 'end'? See, that's the grand thing, it doesn't, so in the end, when it never happens, they can't be told they were wrong
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Post by dasfuchs on Jul 28, 2009 8:43:29 GMT -5
That's what I'm afraid of as well. The future of mankind is extremely uncertain as long as many of us deny reality and embrace baseless claims on faith. At this point, I don't believe that anything can drive mankind to extinction unless it takes the entire planet with it. We're just too widespread and too good at adapting to new environments. And we know how to bomb the shit out of any spec of earth in existance aswell. Hell, a push of the button now will most likely wipe out the planet with all the retalliation
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