bcguy42 38594 Report post Posted July 28, 2011 A lot of what goes on here seems to be terribly important. Just as does that which brings us to CERB or that which stems from being here. Howsoever, consider the following: I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead -- for our planet, and for life itself. Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4bn years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. Six billion years from now, it will not be humans who watch the sun's demise. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae. (Martin Rees, cosmologist and astrophysicist) OK, now back to our terribly important stuff. :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MightyPen 67414 Report post Posted July 28, 2011 The Earth has about 4 billion years left before it plummets into our Sun. But for the last 3 billion of that we'll look like dried-up Mars; all the water evaporates in one billion years as a result of increased solar radiation. In that sense, most of the history of life on our planet has already been written. That's still enough time, mind you, for all of us to die out, all of our cities to be buried, and some new form of life to evolve from some humble form today into new masters of the planet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bcguy42 38594 Report post Posted July 28, 2011 And whatever that form of life is, sure as shooting, one of them will decide the other one is having too much fun and try to outlaw whatever the other one is doing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Old Dog 179138 Report post Posted July 28, 2011 and if we don't do something now, these angry fuckers will be in charge.... mind you he does have a tender look in his eyes for that girl. Maybe it's just us guys that will be doomed. Wait a minute... Hugh Beaumont and Alan Napier??? That's Ward Cleaver and Alfred the butler on the original TV batman! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qwertyaccount 15793 Report post Posted July 29, 2011 After taking a quick trip in a time machine: I discovered that in the year 802,701 AD the Eloi and Morlocks replace today's humans. The Morlocks are in charge. Eloi: Morlocks: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SamanthaEvans 166766 Report post Posted July 29, 2011 Why does all of this prognostication somehow make me feel really . . . old? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
etasman2000 15994 Report post Posted July 29, 2011 Why does all of this prognostication somehow make me feel really . . . old? not old . . . wise Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
