T/S: 15 Nobel laureates vs Adam
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 27 January 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
When next the poles change places, the consequences for the electrical and electronic infrastructure that runs civilization will be dire. The question is when that will happen.
https://undark.org/article/books-alanna-mitchell-spinning-magnet
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
at this point it's hard not to think that the earth itself is trying to kill us all
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
The general idea is, justified through truly painful torture and dismembering of modern physics, mathematics and geology (primarily by the methods of ignorance and blatant denial), that the Earth’s crust sometimes shift suddenly in relation to the rotational axis, causing massive changes to the crust. And as with all true crankery, the hypothesis predicts an immanent cataclysmic event.
http://americanloons.blogspot.fr/2014/04/988-richard-noone.html
5/5/2000 we are...er were...doomed
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
“Recalculating”
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
I read 5/5/2000 around 1990 or so, sometime between sequels to Chariots of the Gods & Foucault's Pendulum, & I remember the author urging people to join his cult crew in rural Illinois where he was gonna build a hovercraft to survive the floods caused by the polar ice caps melting. I wonder if anyone took him up on it, and what happened?
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
i can guarantee this much: they survived the floods
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
lol
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
at this point it's hard not to think that the earth itself is trying to kill us allself defense
― Karl Malone, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
I’ve watched enough science television to know that the earth is in the universe and the universe is nothing if not a giant engine of destruction that wants to blow itself up again and again so actually our death drive as a species is even deeper than our genes, it’s in our elements, man
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
you can't fight entropy dude
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
that's why i don't go to the gym
"When next the poles change places" will be the opening number of Hair 2
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
something something screen doors
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
If the earth ever talks with the other planets they probably say “why you still got that life all over you, dude?” And Earth goes “I know I know it just happened by accident” And Mars is like “...OK, lady”
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
Jupiter constantly giving its moons the eye to make sure they aren’t even thinking about having some life
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
Fun to think of the biosphere as basically like a bad case of athlete's foot that the earth has allowed to get wildly out of control.
― How does boy sound like? (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
at least any life which might be hanging in there under the ice on europa has had the good sense to keep it basic and sustainable so far, let's hope they don't get too ambitious
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
Mars gonna feel pretty stupid when one of our probes turns out to not have been sterilized correctly
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
mars, the bringer of war and the forgetter of condoms
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
Japan heatwave declared natural disaster as death toll mounts
― sleeve, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/23/rising-temperatures-linked-to-increased-suicide-rates
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
Brazil museum fire: ‘incalculable’ loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 September 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link
War, Famine, Death and badly maintained public buildings with dodgy wiring.
― calzino, Monday, 3 September 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
Someone connected with the museum completely broke down into sobbing anguish on bbc WS earlier. Some talk that it could be related to underfunding - shock horror - Building with priceless cultural/historic/archaeological treasures, rather than poor ethnic minorities burns to the ground because of austerity.
― calzino, Monday, 3 September 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
I'm gonna bet the meteorite is probably the only recoverable thing from that infographic
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Monday, 3 September 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
The least they deserve for what they're doing to their rainforests tbh
― imago, Monday, 3 September 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
Where are the crowds of weeping citizens at illegal logging sites?
― imago, Monday, 3 September 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
how does that take measure up against the core temp of the building atm
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Monday, 3 September 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
xp That's equivalent of US conservatives constantly asking why muslims aren't denouncing terrorists on a 24-hour a day basis. why don't you go weep at illegal logging sites, imago?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 3 September 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
there is a maybe real possibility some previously unseen nazi archives just got reduced to dust, again. But it was a free museum apparently, so perhaps lots of poor kids from Rio De Janeiro occasionally had a good day out there before returning to their lives of standard grinding inequity.
― calzino, Monday, 3 September 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
seems unlikely
look obviously this is terrible but...i mean, on this thread? really?
― imago, Monday, 3 September 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
did you read the article, though
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Monday, 3 September 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
A key element of any worthwhile dystopia is the destruction of a society's history.
― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 September 2018 23:58 (five years ago) link
If it happens in large part because the government just stops giving a shit, even better.
― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 September 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
That Brazil fire is a huge tragedy. Lives are spent collecting specimens, with only some researchers fortunate enough to find some of enduring interest. Somewhere in that Rio museum were the last relics of now extinct species, many with enough intact DNA that there was at least hope of resurrecting the species.
In the future, I hope important museums and libraries are well enough funded to look like this, impervious to fire or earthquake or sea-level rise or global thermonuclear war:
http://baseengr.com/images/uploads/02-portfolio-images/MILCON%200660-med.jpg
We're living near some sort of apex for humanity (albeit at a cost to all other life), but we shouldn't expect it to last. The heroes of this era will be the curators and librarians who preserve the biodiversity and knowledge and cultural product of recent eras for future, often distant generations.
― nonderepressible (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
yeah and it's a terrible loss but
“The tragedy this Sunday is a sort of national suicide. A crime against our past and future generations,”
the elephant in the room on this of all threads is too poignant for me to handle this talk
but i guess you guys are right
― imago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
this thread is reserved for the actual apocalypse
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
let me know when jesus comes back on with a flaming sword to make me suffer
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
No need. He'll be in touch.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
Just re-read the 2008 climate doom op-ed that originally inspired this thread and it's almost funny how normalized its existential despair has become for me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
The meteorite survived
incredibly sad video from inside Brazil's gutted National Museum — only the meteorites withstood the fire pic.twitter.com/6BoTJqanSd— Matthew Champion (@matthewchampion) September 4, 2018
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
called it
― Paleo Weltschmerz (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
After surviving the long plunge through the earth's atmosphere and the landing afterward, a little thing like a fire wouldn't phase it.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
the state of that wooden banister suggests that the fire perhaps wasn't so intense near the charred lumps of rock section, sods law.
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 06:07 (five years ago) link
feel like this belongs here, great piece from Douglas Rushkoff
https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1
― sleeve, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
that is good, thanks for posting that here
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 03:45 (five years ago) link
That was an excellent essay and condenses a lot of excellence in a fairly few words. Rushkoff is completely correct in his assessment of the prevailing attitudes among the super-rich and his analysis of what is necessary to stave off the worst possible human future that capitalism and the super-rich seem to be driving us toward willy-nilly.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 04:39 (five years ago) link
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13047
eyy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
can't believe the earth is gonna fart us all to death smdh
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link