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Interesting...
« on: June 13, 2013, 05:11:47 pm »
Saw this on Reddit.  Disturbing.
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Re: Interesting...
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2013, 07:46:25 pm »
Just try not to think at all...
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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2013, 05:33:17 am »
Very provocative.
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« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2013, 07:07:07 pm »
I always thought of cars as red blood cells and we are the oxygen that bonds to them.

The organism we're in the vascular system of is some kind of surface parasitic infection on the Earth, I guess. The world-wide wart.
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« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2013, 11:14:38 am »
It worries me that so many people's view of us as a species is overwhelmingly negative.
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« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2013, 03:19:40 pm »
Quote from: Doc on June 16, 2013, 11:14:38 am
It worries me that so many people's view of us as a species is overwhelmingly negative.
Worries you how? As a species we've done some pretty amazing things.

My beef with this strip is when he starts to talk about how we will use the last drop of fossil fuels. That event will never happen. We will never use the 'last drop' of fossil fuels. We innovate ourselves out of crisis.
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« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2013, 04:52:50 pm »
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« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2013, 06:31:29 pm »
Oh, there are lots of fossil fuels left... trapped in shales and tar sands that are insanely expensive to extract and ruin whole states worth of land to take out.

So yeah, I mean, there's lots more fossil fuels. But as it gets harder to extract, it will only serve to pollute and concentrate wealth exponentially more as we go.

It would be better if we COULD run out.
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« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2013, 08:53:48 pm »
By which I meant "then we'd have to get serious about solar and hydro and wind power and not be a bunch of goddamned savages who will always invade and/or strip mine away our problems."
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« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2013, 12:09:54 am »
I'm with ACap on this one. And yeah, hydro is a non starter because we'll run out of water before we run out of oil.
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« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2013, 12:13:12 am »
There is a difference between water and affordable, safe drinking water, FYI.  But yeah, we are going to run out of affordable, safe drinking water long before oil.  Unsure how it effects hydro tho.
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« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2013, 02:08:08 am »
Quote from: KeithHernandez on June 17, 2013, 12:13:12 am
There is a difference between water and affordable, safe drinking water, FYI.  But yeah, we are going to run out of affordable, safe drinking water long before oil.  Unsure how it effects hydro tho.

The thing about water is that it literally falls from the sky.

Quote from: littlefallsmets on June 16, 2013, 06:31:29 pm
So yeah, I mean, there's lots more fossil fuels. But as it gets harder to extract, it will only serve to pollute and concentrate wealth exponentially more as we go.

I'm unopposed to wealth flowing to the smartest guys in the room.
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« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2013, 02:16:58 am »
Maybe in your neck of the woods.  The Colorado river is a nice example of how complicated managing a natural resource is.  And there is still none left to actually flow into the Sea of Cortez.  Its a weird thing to watch the churning of the enormous quantities of water at the foot of Hoover Dam and realize that literally NONE of it will make it all the way to sea.
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« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2013, 02:22:01 am »
Quote from: jaydub on June 17, 2013, 02:16:58 am
Maybe in your neck of the woods.  The Colorado river is a nice example of how complicated managing a natural resource is.  And there is still none left to actually flow into the Sea of Cortez.  Its a weird thing to watch the churning of the enormous quantities of water at the foot of Hoover Dam and realize that literally NONE of it will make it all the way to sea.

Here is where we agree.
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« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2013, 04:02:53 am »
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