' The truth - We will go extinct, very soon.'
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Quote:If you were a Buddhist from the Firefly 'Verse you'd believe in reincarnation into the mess you left behind in your previous life. A Buddhist knows he has to pay for what he did, if not in this life then in the next. On the other hand, the Christians and Atheists can't or won't think about paying because they are only passing through life one time, and nothing will force them to care what disasters they caused and leave behind. Christians and atheists act the way they do because: Christians are given a free pass by God to be irresponsible about anything but getting into heaven and atheists believe they can dodge ultimate responsibility by dying. Death is the atheist's free pass. Buddhism doesn't give out free passes.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well... I doubt any of us are ever getting off of this rock.
The afterlife is always an exit plan. Whether it's pearly gates in the clouds or The Nothing from the Neverending Story, makes no matter to me.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:So ... suggestions? Do you have a proposed solution for this madness, besides endlessly being a troll on a tiny part of the internet (Which btw isn't a solution for anything.) ?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
REAVERBOT, it's not just the pesticide industry's profits that are being protected, it's farmers' (including corporate farms). Unless you've farmed - or at least gardened intensively- you wouldn't know that growing produce is a never-ending fight against pests of all kinds ... weeds, bugs, fungus, bacteria and viruses.
Our steady adavance towards Armageddon is propelled by profit. Money from those profits hold politicians hostage, that means most Democrats and most Republicans ... and btw most politicians around the world.
And you can't get people to engage in the problem because they're entranced by profit-motivated media.
Suggestions???
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If you were a Buddhist from the Firefly 'Verse you'd believe in reincarnation into the mess you left behind in your previous life. A Buddhist knows he has to pay for what he did, if not in this life then in the next. On the other hand, the Christians and Atheists can't or won't think about paying because they are only passing through life one time, and nothing will force them to care what disasters they caused and leave behind. Christians and atheists act the way they do because: Christians are given a free pass by God to be irresponsible about anything but getting into heaven and atheists believe they can dodge ultimate responsibility by dying. Death is the atheist's free pass. Buddhism doesn't give out free passes.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well... I doubt any of us are ever getting off of this rock.
The afterlife is always an exit plan. Whether it's pearly gates in the clouds or The Nothing from the Neverending Story, makes no matter to me.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I was just illustrating two extremes.
I guess I could have said the following...
The afterlife is always an exit plan. Whether it's 72 virgins or living another life in a Fallout bunker as a Radroach, makes no matter to me.
I recycle. I don't use A/C. I drive very little. I don't buy a ton of shit I don't need. I don't have any kids that cause my carbon footprint to grow exponentially.
It's you rich folk that have the power to change things but fail to do so everyday. Go talk to your friends about it instead of gloating everyday about your huge tax cuts to people who will never make in their entire life what you gained last year from Trump's tax cuts.
My conscious is clean.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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CO2 on the brain and the brain on CO2
https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/co2-on-the-brain-and-the-brain-on-
co2/
I came across this information in a 2012 public health study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory investigation [1] and a more recent 2015 public health study published by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health [2]. These two independent studies concur that statistically significant and meaningful reductions in decision-making performance, which could significantly affect productivity, learning and safety, are observable with increases in CO2 levels from 600 to 1000 to 2500 ppm. While these levels seem high in comparison to the 405 ppm CO2 currently recorded in our atmosphere, they are commonplace in poorly ventilated spaces of the kind mentioned above, where we spend large proportions of our time.
By inspecting results displayed in Figure 1, for nine double blind tests, for the dependence of cognitive function on the concentration of CO2, one is amazed to discover that average cognitive scores of typical participants, decreased by 21% with respect to 400 ppm increases in CO2 levels [2].
The adverse effects of high levels of CO2 are, of course, well-documented in for example, space travel, scuba-diving and submarines, aeroplanes and fire-fighting situations. However, the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on human health from living, working, playing and traveling in tightly sealed environments, is a disquieting surprise to many of us already worrying about the negative effects of greenhouse gas on our climate. While it is a truism that throughout our lives we make and exhale CO2 it is now apparent that we were not created to live in an atmosphere with increasingly high levels of CO2.
The point here, if you missed it, is that people won't be able to think straight.
We are going extinct. It's already started, and it can't be stopped.
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Wow, that's a stretch even for you. Now you're just disaster-mongering.
There's no way in hell our thinking would be clouded by impossible levels of CO2. If the CO2 ever got that high we'd be dead long before of something else
So, have any suggestions on how to fix the problem?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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Well, it's a stupid scenario in this thread, and seriously off-topic, but RF posted something of interest to me. Since someone in the family had COPD and was adapted to high CO2 blood levels, I was wondering at what point do people become addled from 'CO2 narcosis' - or indeed if there is such a thing.
Not surprisingly, the Navy's done studies on that, because while one can generate oxygen pretty easily in subs, scrubbing CO2 out is far more difficult - and bulky, noisy, expensive, and complicated.
But the studies were all over the map. Some indicated narcosis at fairly low CO2 breathing-air levels, while others showed no or few effects under extraordinarily high levels.
As the final decision about what the Navy aims for in subs is probably classified, I'll probably also never know what the final study results were. But CO2 narcosis isn't a clear-cut topic you can research on the internet.
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Quote:If your conscience is clear, it's because you pressed the reset button on your memory. You voted for Trump. Trump campaigned on burning the maximum possible amount of coal. Only yesterday the EPA finalized Trump’s coal-friendly climate plan. If you remember that and your conscience still remains clear, your conscience is broke. Fix it. Or you could vote again for Trump because none of the Democrats will compliment you on how good, wise, hardworking, and clever you are like Trump will.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's you rich folk that have the power to change things but fail to do so everyday. Go talk to your friends about it instead of gloating everyday about your huge tax cuts to people who will never make in their entire life what you gained last year from Trump's tax cuts.
My conscious is clean.
www.engadget.com/2019/06/19/epa-trump-administration-coal-climate-plan/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If your conscience is clear, it's because you pressed the reset button on your memory. You voted for Trump. Trump campaigned on burning the maximum possible amount of coal. Only yesterday the EPA finalized Trump’s coal-friendly climate plan. If you remember that and your conscience still remains clear, your conscience is broke. Fix it. Or you could vote again for Trump because none of the Democrats will compliment you on how good, wise, hardworking, and clever you are like Trump will.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's you rich folk that have the power to change things but fail to do so everyday. Go talk to your friends about it instead of gloating everyday about your huge tax cuts to people who will never make in their entire life what you gained last year from Trump's tax cuts.
My conscious is clean.
The only reply this post deserves is a question.
Did you fix the environment when you voted twice for Obama?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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‘Die-in’ to sound alarm on human extinction
https://www.communitynews.com.au/guardian-express/news/die-in-to-sound
-alarm-on-human-extinction/
Get ready for the final physics lesson on one of the most powerful forces in the universe - INERTIA.
The emotion-apes must act out their feelings with their grand gestures.
They venerate their emotions and pretend they are choosing them. No. They are driven by their primitive limbic system & the neocortex, when not employed for reward seeking, is mostly used to conjure up clever sounding rationalizations and spin tales of hopium so they can get out of bed every morning and thus and reduce more gradients.
Tales of hopium are almost exclusively about how humans alone will manage to not be destroyed by their own waste stream while millions of other species go extinct from said waste stream. Two varieties of hopium tales, the "techno fix" & "global awakening" (Extinction Rebellion & such). The less imaginative, cognitively challenged apes, such as Jack, opt for flat out denial.
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Denial?
Not true, Marcos.
I simply don't care in the slightest.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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