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It's life. For better or worse (and who can really tell), we're a part of it, and nothing stays the same anyways. The earth has gone through climate changes before. The only difference is, 11,000 years ago, there wasn't a stock market, huge populations to feed, and this idea that we can't lose our precious way of life (well, maybe that's always been around, but we seem to be a lot more anal about it nowadays). Marc My website
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It's life. For better or worse (and who can really tell), we're a part of it, and nothing stays the same anyways. The earth has gone through climate changes before. The only difference is, 11,000 years ago, there wasn't a stock market, huge populations to feed, and this idea that we can't lose our precious way of life (well, maybe that's always been around, but we seem to be a lot more anal about it nowadays). Marc My website
Latest Articles: Object Comparer String HelpersWhat I think is funny is that we (as humans) are compelled to find a reason to blame ourselves for it when for all we know it's been a cycle that repeats every 11,000 years. It blows me a way that as a human populace we can be so naive. It's a huge barren waste land but 15,000 years ago it might have been a lush garden. Think we are bummed it's thawing? Imagine how they felt when it froze... Human experience on this earth is only 2,000 to 10,000 years old (at least that people have been paying attention to) which is hardly any time at all. When you consider in the last 200 years we really have been paying attention to the globe and the last 60 years we've been able to analyze it... We don't have a lot to go on really. I mean where I live we have 100 year flood plains. Any reason that the entire continent cannot be a 10,000 year flood plain? No, there isn't. We see evidence all over the place that oceans used to occupy deserts and vice versa. The world we live on changes and I think it has/does/will continue to do so whether or not we had perfect hair bands in the 80's using metric tons of hair spray for every concert... I mean... My computer crashes, I restart it. It's just a cycle of change and it's not just limited to computers. Somehow Bill Gates has inflicted the entire world with it... That is if you choose to believe everything you read... Next thing you know Windows Vista will have caused the earths rotation to increase by 1/1000th of a second. Man, I'm worried. I'm going to dig a hole in the ground and crawl in because I can tell... In 10,000 more years this place will be toast. BE AFRAID! But in your fear, DO NOT POST A PROGRAMMING QUESTION!:doh:
I know you can't become if you only say what you would have done and you'll miss a million miles of fun." - Len Work hard, play hard. Don't forget who you are and don't forget where you're from. Do all these things well and you won't have to wonder where you are going. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
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What I think is funny is that we (as humans) are compelled to find a reason to blame ourselves for it when for all we know it's been a cycle that repeats every 11,000 years. It blows me a way that as a human populace we can be so naive. It's a huge barren waste land but 15,000 years ago it might have been a lush garden. Think we are bummed it's thawing? Imagine how they felt when it froze... Human experience on this earth is only 2,000 to 10,000 years old (at least that people have been paying attention to) which is hardly any time at all. When you consider in the last 200 years we really have been paying attention to the globe and the last 60 years we've been able to analyze it... We don't have a lot to go on really. I mean where I live we have 100 year flood plains. Any reason that the entire continent cannot be a 10,000 year flood plain? No, there isn't. We see evidence all over the place that oceans used to occupy deserts and vice versa. The world we live on changes and I think it has/does/will continue to do so whether or not we had perfect hair bands in the 80's using metric tons of hair spray for every concert... I mean... My computer crashes, I restart it. It's just a cycle of change and it's not just limited to computers. Somehow Bill Gates has inflicted the entire world with it... That is if you choose to believe everything you read... Next thing you know Windows Vista will have caused the earths rotation to increase by 1/1000th of a second. Man, I'm worried. I'm going to dig a hole in the ground and crawl in because I can tell... In 10,000 more years this place will be toast. BE AFRAID! But in your fear, DO NOT POST A PROGRAMMING QUESTION!:doh:
I know you can't become if you only say what you would have done and you'll miss a million miles of fun." - Len Work hard, play hard. Don't forget who you are and don't forget where you're from. Do all these things well and you won't have to wonder where you are going. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
code-frog wrote: BE AFRAID! But in your fear, DO NOT POST A PROGRAMMING QUESTION! :laugh: Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
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What I think is funny is that we (as humans) are compelled to find a reason to blame ourselves for it when for all we know it's been a cycle that repeats every 11,000 years. It blows me a way that as a human populace we can be so naive. It's a huge barren waste land but 15,000 years ago it might have been a lush garden. Think we are bummed it's thawing? Imagine how they felt when it froze... Human experience on this earth is only 2,000 to 10,000 years old (at least that people have been paying attention to) which is hardly any time at all. When you consider in the last 200 years we really have been paying attention to the globe and the last 60 years we've been able to analyze it... We don't have a lot to go on really. I mean where I live we have 100 year flood plains. Any reason that the entire continent cannot be a 10,000 year flood plain? No, there isn't. We see evidence all over the place that oceans used to occupy deserts and vice versa. The world we live on changes and I think it has/does/will continue to do so whether or not we had perfect hair bands in the 80's using metric tons of hair spray for every concert... I mean... My computer crashes, I restart it. It's just a cycle of change and it's not just limited to computers. Somehow Bill Gates has inflicted the entire world with it... That is if you choose to believe everything you read... Next thing you know Windows Vista will have caused the earths rotation to increase by 1/1000th of a second. Man, I'm worried. I'm going to dig a hole in the ground and crawl in because I can tell... In 10,000 more years this place will be toast. BE AFRAID! But in your fear, DO NOT POST A PROGRAMMING QUESTION!:doh:
I know you can't become if you only say what you would have done and you'll miss a million miles of fun." - Len Work hard, play hard. Don't forget who you are and don't forget where you're from. Do all these things well and you won't have to wonder where you are going. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
:laugh: Excellent. Both in terms of sanity and humor. I've long told people almost exactly what you've said so eloquently in your first paragraph. It's cyclic. There's no way that we can even begin to know the workings of this planet on any time period longer than a few thousand years. Sure, evolutionists may claim that we've been around for a bajillion years, but we haven't been monitoring the earth for that long. I live in San Diego, and people here were a bit worried when that scientist predicted that the San Andreas fault was overdue...by a few hundred years. Now, I understand that there's some value in extrapolation of given data to attempt to predict the future...but my math professor always taught me not to extrapolate out too far. And I don't think he's got enough historic data to know whether or not we're going to fall into the sea because a crack in the earth is supposedly overdue for a major split. And like Marc pointed out, why on earth are we so concerned with "preserving our way of life" and all that crap? Is our way of life really all that great to begin with? :~
[Cheshire] I can't afford those plastic things to cover the electric sockets so I just draw bunny faces on the electric outlets to scare the kids away from them... [RLtim] Newsflash! Kids aren't afraid of bunnies. [Cheshire] Oh they will be... -Bash.org
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:laugh: Excellent. Both in terms of sanity and humor. I've long told people almost exactly what you've said so eloquently in your first paragraph. It's cyclic. There's no way that we can even begin to know the workings of this planet on any time period longer than a few thousand years. Sure, evolutionists may claim that we've been around for a bajillion years, but we haven't been monitoring the earth for that long. I live in San Diego, and people here were a bit worried when that scientist predicted that the San Andreas fault was overdue...by a few hundred years. Now, I understand that there's some value in extrapolation of given data to attempt to predict the future...but my math professor always taught me not to extrapolate out too far. And I don't think he's got enough historic data to know whether or not we're going to fall into the sea because a crack in the earth is supposedly overdue for a major split. And like Marc pointed out, why on earth are we so concerned with "preserving our way of life" and all that crap? Is our way of life really all that great to begin with? :~
[Cheshire] I can't afford those plastic things to cover the electric sockets so I just draw bunny faces on the electric outlets to scare the kids away from them... [RLtim] Newsflash! Kids aren't afraid of bunnies. [Cheshire] Oh they will be... -Bash.org
David Stone wrote: people here were a bit worried when that scientist predicted that the San Andreas fault was overdue... I wish you'd hurry it up. I'm looking forward to having beachfront property and sailing to the island of San Gorgonio on weekends.:laugh: "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley
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David Stone wrote: people here were a bit worried when that scientist predicted that the San Andreas fault was overdue... I wish you'd hurry it up. I'm looking forward to having beachfront property and sailing to the island of San Gorgonio on weekends.:laugh: "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley
Roger Wright wrote: I wish you'd hurry it up. I'm looking forward to having beachfront property and sailing to the island of San Gorgonio on weekends. hey, I've been pouring gorilla glue in everytime I fly to the west coast... if california falls off, this might become the new death valley.... (yes insane logic) ;) ;) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)