BadComrade wrote:The sun's eventually gonna supernova and swallow the earth anyway, so who gives a fuck. Human beings and the earth itself are nothing in the grand scheme of things. I think it's about time we get over ourselves.l

the sun will engulf the earth long before it goes supernova.

BadComrade wrote:The sun's eventually gonna supernova and swallow the earth anyway, so who gives a fuck. Human beings and the earth itself are nothing in the grand scheme of things. I think it's about time we get over ourselves.



On a related note: This probably isn't the most accurate thing in the world, but I like watching it:

http://www.break.com/index/the_earth_is_very_small.html

I liked that video. Put in very simple terms that we are a grain of sand. There has GOT to be something else out there somewhere. Got to be...

pet fever detector wrote:

BadComrade wrote:The sun's eventually gonna supernova and swallow the earth anyway, so who gives a fuck. Human beings and the earth itself are nothing in the grand scheme of things. I think it's about time we get over ourselves.l

the sun will engulf the earth long before it goes supernova.

Too bad yellow dwarfs don't become supernovas.

Anyone hear about nature getting mike watt in on the next mass extinction? That's so un-punk.

I have an idea. Let's not even try to avoid this planetary wipeout 50 years before it happens.

Oh yeah! we're already doing that.

Watching 90% of humanity die from war, disease, and starvation is going to be a great way to spend those golden years. Hope I'm still around to see it!

2012 - December. That's what them Mayan's said.

But what the hey!

i'm looking out my window now and theres 60 mile an hour winds, rain and its already kinda dark though its only 13:30 here. i really hope this global warming gives us some fancy meditteranean weather here before it kills us.

Earwicker wrote:2012 - December. That's what them Mayan's said.

But what the hey!

the mayans were smart enough to predict the end of the planet? weren't fuckin smart enough to predict being slaughtered wholesale themselves though!!

Heeby Jeeby wrote:the mayans were smart enough to predict the end of the planet? weren't fuckin smart enough to predict being slaughtered wholesale themselves though!!

Well, that's where you're wrong see.
The Mayan's predicted the return of Quetzalcoatl followed by a period of turmoil in the year Cortez showed up and fucked it up for them there Sur Americans.

cue Twilight Zone music.

Earwicker wrote:

Heeby Jeeby wrote:the mayans were smart enough to predict the end of the planet? weren't fuckin smart enough to predict being slaughtered wholesale themselves though!!

Well, that's where you're wrong see.
The Mayan's predicted the return of Quetzalcoatl followed by a period of turmoil in the year Cortez showed up and fucked it up for them there Sur Americans.

cue Twilight Zone music.

'hey guys. i reckon quetzalcoatl is coming back'
'no way'
'no seriously he is. and then theres going to be a period of turmoil'
'hows that then chief?'
'i dunno...just general turmoil. a bit of this and that but i'm sure we'll be fine. its not as if a large army of marauding spaniards is going to arrive and kill pretty much every last one of us'
(cue uproarious mayan laughter and suitable 'end of civilisation' music)[/i]

juice wrote:

pet fever detector wrote:

BadComrade wrote:The sun's eventually gonna supernova and swallow the earth anyway, so who gives a fuck. Human beings and the earth itself are nothing in the grand scheme of things. I think it's about time we get over ourselves.l

the sun will engulf the earth long before it goes supernova.

Too bad yellow dwarfs don't become supernovas.

I was just about to point out that the sun is too small to ever go supernova. The smallest a star could be and go supernova is 1.44 solar masses (the Chandrasekhar limit). The sun will eventually become a white dwarf type star.