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get sad thinking about earth's eventual fate: humans are so absurd and special
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:08 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse it's crazy enough that life exists period but man's intellect, self-awareness and communication abilities are just incredible. a bunch of weird hairless apes took over everything.
but how can we maek it?
"In about one billion years, the solar luminosity will be 10% higher than at present. This will cause the atmosphere to become a "moist greenhouse", resulting in a runaway evaporation of the oceans. As a likely consequence, plate tectonics will come to an end, and with them the entire carbon cycle. Following this event, in about 2-3 billion years, the planet's magnetic dynamo may cease, causing the magnetosphere to decay and leading to an accelerated loss of volatiles from the outer atmosphere. Four billion years from now, the increase in the Earth's surface temperature will cause a runaway greenhouse effect, heating the surface enough to melt it. By that point, all life on the Earth will be extinct." |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:19 AM Author: Gay Bespoke Digit Ratio Telephone we'll get smashed by an asteroid way before then, no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728562) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:22 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse appreciate the optimism
how soon until the asteroid hits? |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:26 AM Author: Gay Bespoke Digit Ratio Telephone wouldn't hold your breath waiting for the SMOD, but a civilization ending impact at some point in the future will 100% happen; our only hope of survival is to spread throughout the solar system. our destiny lies in the stars. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728613) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 9:45 PM Author: carmine meetinghouse is that merely temporary as well? won't those stars expand to engulf all their planets or deny them the heat needed to continue? what happens to the universe itself over time? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34735866) |
Date: November 20th, 2017 1:09 AM Author: dull thriller toilet seat You can't trust scientists on the weather tomorrow, you gonna trust them on solar dynamics and the end of plate tectonics a BILLION years from now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728514) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:10 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse fine forget the greenhouse gas stuff. we still only have 7.5 billion years before earth is engulfed by the sun. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728516) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:26 AM Author: dull thriller toilet seat oh no! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728622) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:11 AM Author: Frozen charismatic kitchen regret we need to record the xo archives onto a gold disc and launch it into space
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:16 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse POTUS tied up on alien ship: What do you want from us? We'll give you anything. Anything!
Alien: *seethes* blank bummmmppps |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:18 AM Author: orange unholy gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728555) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:29 AM Author: dull thriller toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728637) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:34 AM Author: Gay Bespoke Digit Ratio Telephone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728658) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:34 AM Author: Frozen charismatic kitchen regret (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728661) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 9:47 PM Author: Racy orchestra pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34735875) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:12 AM Author: onyx contagious resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728529) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:17 AM Author: Mewling Ceo Gay Wizard We have no choice but interstellar colonization. A billion years should be plenty of time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728553) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:22 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse How far away is the nearest Earth-like planet? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728584) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:27 AM Author: Gay Bespoke Digit Ratio Telephone "earth-like" is probably a stretch, but there are rocky planets in the habitable zone of proxima centauri i think (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728626) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:29 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse how fast are spacecraft now compared to light speed? shit's only 4 light years away if you had a fast ship wouldn't be impossible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728638) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:30 AM Author: Gay Bespoke Digit Ratio Telephone just need to keep up the NASA minority outreach and we'll be there in no time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728643) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:31 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse black astronaut riding to Proxima Centauri with his seat fully reclined subwoofers rattling the heat resistant panels on the ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728649) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:34 AM Author: Gay Bespoke Digit Ratio Telephone catcalling alien chicks with fat asses out dat spaceship window (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728656) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:36 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728668) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:27 AM Author: Up-to-no-good Antidepressant Drug Jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728629) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:26 AM Author: Gay Bespoke Digit Ratio Telephone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728617) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:29 AM Author: dull thriller toilet seat it will require us freezing embryos to as close to 0 Kelvin as we can to slow down aging (stop cellular metabolism/senescence), because we can't travel fast enough to get anywhere in a reasonable timeframe, assuming we can figure out how to unfreeze the embryos and raise them into adult humans (likely with robot parents on the ship and videos to educate them), and hopefully those people in the ship can figure out if the planet we shot them at is good or not for habitation (most likely not) and settle it
We do this maybe 10, 20, 50 thousand ships with embryos and robots, if there is a habitable planet maybe we will get lucky with ONE of those ships and everything goes right. |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:36 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse your future son standing next to robo-dad: who the fuck are you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728667) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:40 AM Author: Up-to-no-good Antidepressant Drug Jap presumably when we're at the point where we're contemplating interstellar travel we'll figure out how to travel a bit faster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728683) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:46 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse good thing we have all our best researchers optimizing ad impressions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728707) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:48 AM Author: dull thriller toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728720) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:27 AM Author: Grizzly abode ITT: a low-t beta literally worries about earths fate in a billion years instead of fucking a new girl today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728625) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:30 AM Author: dull thriller toilet seat you're closer to an animal than you are to us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728644) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:33 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse (guy who sprays his seed everywhere with nothing to show for it) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728653) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:35 AM Author: razzle topaz theater Look man, megacomputers are going to be built inside a Martian crater and will hold digitalized people chilling in cyberspace for millenia. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728663) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:32 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse what? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34730273) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 8:44 AM Author: carmine meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34729607) |
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Date: November 20th, 2017 9:48 PM Author: Racy orchestra pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34735883) |