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get sad thinking about earth's eventual fate: humans are so absurd and special

it's crazy enough that life exists period but man's intellec...
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
we'll get smashed by an asteroid way before then, no?
Odious point
  11/20/17
appreciate the optimism how soon until the asteroid hits?
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
wouldn't hold your breath waiting for the SMOD, but a civili...
Odious point
  11/20/17
is that merely temporary as well? won't those stars expand t...
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
You can't trust scientists on the weather tomorrow, you gonn...
nighttime concupiscible church reading party
  11/20/17
fine forget the greenhouse gas stuff. we still only have 7.5...
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
oh no!
nighttime concupiscible church reading party
  11/20/17
we need to record the xo archives onto a gold disc and launc...
startling know-it-all goal in life
  11/20/17
spin, ratfucks
smoky church building potus
  11/20/17
POTUS tied up on alien ship: What do you want from us? We'll...
Seedy Lodge
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dashing fanboi
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nighttime concupiscible church reading party
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Odious point
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startling know-it-all goal in life
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hairraiser newt meetinghouse
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Lime weed whacker forum
  11/20/17
We have no choice but interstellar colonization. A billion y...
Vivacious library mother
  11/20/17
How far away is the nearest Earth-like planet?
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
"earth-like" is probably a stretch, but there are ...
Odious point
  11/20/17
how fast are spacecraft now compared to light speed? shit's ...
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
just need to keep up the NASA minority outreach and we'll be...
Odious point
  11/20/17
black astronaut riding to Proxima Centauri with his seat ful...
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
catcalling alien chicks with fat asses out dat spaceship win...
Odious point
  11/20/17
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Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
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comical mustard rigpig
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Odious point
  11/20/17
diaper planet
Lime weed whacker forum
  11/20/17
it will require us freezing embryos to as close to 0 Kelvin ...
nighttime concupiscible church reading party
  11/20/17
your future son standing next to robo-dad: who the fuck are ...
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
presumably when we're at the point where we're contemplating...
comical mustard rigpig
  11/20/17
good thing we have all our best researchers optimizing ad im...
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
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nighttime concupiscible church reading party
  11/20/17
ITT: a low-t beta literally worries about earths fate in a b...
greedy idiot
  11/20/17
you're closer to an animal than you are to us
nighttime concupiscible church reading party
  11/20/17
(guy who sprays his seed everywhere with nothing to show for...
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
Look man, megacomputers are going to be built inside a Marti...
Rambunctious mischievous marketing idea stock car
  11/20/17
what?
Seedy Lodge
  11/20/17
San Junipero entirely digital existence
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So I walk upon high And I stepped to the edge To see my wo...
Bateful stead
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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:08 AM
Author: Seedy Lodge

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."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728509)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:19 AM
Author: Odious point

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: Seedy Lodge

appreciate the optimism

how soon until the asteroid hits?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728591)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:26 AM
Author: Odious point

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: Seedy Lodge

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)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:09 AM
Author: nighttime concupiscible church reading party

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: Seedy Lodge

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: nighttime concupiscible church reading party

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: startling know-it-all goal in life

we need to record the xo archives onto a gold disc and launch it into space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728520)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:12 AM
Author: smoky church building potus

spin, ratfucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728527)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:16 AM
Author: Seedy Lodge

POTUS tied up on alien ship: What do you want from us? We'll give you anything. Anything!

Alien: *seethes* blank bummmmppps

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728548)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:18 AM
Author: dashing fanboi



(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: nighttime concupiscible church reading party



(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: Odious point



(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: startling know-it-all goal in life



(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: hairraiser newt meetinghouse



(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: Lime weed whacker forum



(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: Vivacious library mother

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: Seedy Lodge

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: Odious point

"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: Seedy Lodge

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: Odious point

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: Seedy Lodge

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: Odious point

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: Seedy Lodge



(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: comical mustard rigpig



(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: Odious point



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728617)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:27 AM
Author: Lime weed whacker forum

diaper planet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728624)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:29 AM
Author: nighttime concupiscible church reading party

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728635)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:36 AM
Author: Seedy Lodge

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: comical mustard rigpig

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: Seedy Lodge

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: nighttime concupiscible church reading party



(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: greedy idiot

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: nighttime concupiscible church reading party

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: Seedy Lodge

(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: Rambunctious mischievous marketing idea stock car

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: Seedy Lodge

what?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34730273)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 9:48 PM
Author: Aqua garrison skinny woman

San Junipero

entirely digital existence

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34735882)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 1:48 AM
Author: Bateful stead

So I walk upon high

And I stepped to the edge

To see my world below

And I laugh at myself

While the tears roll down

'Cause it's the world I know

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34728723)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 8:44 AM
Author: Seedy Lodge



(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: hairraiser newt meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3803163&forum_id=2#34735883)