Russ of the BML
5:21 Thu Nov 13
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ajc123 2:06 Wed Nov 12
Also not sure what you mean about being humble. I am not a hippy or stand on a soap-box to shout about human's misgivings. I have done some stupid and cuntish things like most so am no angel.
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Russ of the BML
5:18 Thu Nov 13
Intelligent life in the Universe
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ajc123 2:06 Wed Nov 12
Calm down. I am not fishing. I said it was a bit deep as I doubt very much many humans actually firstly ask themselves "Why are we here?" and actually think enough about it to say "Are we an evolutionary mistake?". We may not be but it is only a theory.
It is based on the fact that taking the delicate balance of the natural world and the fact that nature works in harmony. The worlds eco-systems are fine tuned to the minutest detail. I just do not see how humans fit into that as an ultra-intelligent race.
The earths' eco systems were not designed to cope with the developments that man has created which omit such high levels of Co2 emissions. Man has hunted certain animals to extinction but these animals are bascially in place to feed other animals. You start removing certain stages from the food chain and the whole thing breaks.
Human as a cave-man was sustainable for the earth because of the such low levels of population. The human race has exploded way beyong expectations and there is more and more pressure being put on the earth. The human race is expanding at an alarming rate and needs more room. Room that requires deforestation at alarming rates. Forests that are the home to millions of animals and provide the food for them.
I am not questioning man's rights to be here just saying that as it stands at the moment the human race have tipped the eco-system balance so out of kilter I don't think it is recoverable. The question remains is the earth able to sustain such a huge and uber advanced human race? That is all.
What I mean about greed, corruption and hate is that within animal groups you get greed and hate. But they haven't got the intelligence to design guns, bombs and ways of killing on mass. Humans do and we see the consequences of that every day.
You mention money, status and power. Within animal groups there is status and power but it is contained within a hierachy of a group within a species. Ultra intelligence brought about the use of money for transactions which, as I said, promotes greed. Problem with greed on such a large scale, as history shows, it could mean millions of people starving to death while a small group live.
We also see greed and the desire for power and wealth being a huge factor in environmental disasters. All caused by human hand.
But the bottom line is money and wealth.
Something that does not feature in the animal kingdom. Hence, the question was the level of intelligence humans have intended and is it sustainable for the earth.
Not sure if I have explained it well but, as I said, it;s just a theory. The human race has achieved some amazing things in its short time on earth but I do not see it being very good for the earth's health.
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the straw
4:12 Thu Nov 13
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Will we need shake and vac?
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CHICKEN RUN MANIAC
3:36 Thu Nov 13
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Out there in space, will we find friends?
Is there a place where the universe ends?
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Mrs Wilberforce
10:23 Wed Nov 12
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Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way'
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
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ohgodno
4:44 Wed Nov 12
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Man Alive! 4:43 Wed Nov 12
Don't know if you are joking or not but I just read a book that takes a lot of words to say just that.
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Man Alive!
4:43 Wed Nov 12
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SETI blokes are religious nuts.
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Willtell
4:26 Wed Nov 12
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99.99% of all the different Earth lifeforms are extinct apparently. We are born to die so enjoy it while you can...
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Joke Whole
4:01 Wed Nov 12
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I doubt that it was the same dinosaurs that "ruled" the planet continuously for all that time - it's highly likely that one or more species became over successful and drove themselves and others into extinction: such ebb & flow may well be an underlying parameter of "life".
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Willtell
2:11 Wed Nov 12
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Dinosaurs ruled this Earth for 44,000 times longer than human beings have existed.
I make Russ right in that we will probably ruin ourselves and our planet long before circumstances out of anyone's control, did for dinosaurs.
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ajc123
2:06 Wed Nov 12
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Russ of the BML. Don't think I've ever read such complete and utter superficial blx on here. 'Bit deep'. You must be fishing
"Intelligence brings about greed, corruption and hate"
Nothing to do with money, status and power then. I know let's use a bit of intelligence and look at the corruption over the past couple of years - the Murdoch press, the police, politicians - yep all due to their superior intelligence. You must feel really humble.
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Joke Whole
1:35 Wed Nov 12
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Would that then make really fit women Grrrrapes?
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cholo
10:52 Wed Nov 12
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We are apes.
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Russ of the BML
10:48 Wed Nov 12
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COOL HAND LUKE 3:33 Tue Nov 11
Sorry???
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COOL HAND LUKE
3:33 Tue Nov 11
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Russ of the BML 1:23 Tue Nov 11
It would be 'perfection' if you were an ape, sure enough.
Otherwise, it does have one very serious flaw...
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Russ of the BML
2:04 Tue Nov 11
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Hammer and Pickle 1:29 Tue Nov 11
haha
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Hammer and Pickle
1:29 Tue Nov 11
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Nature has a way of correcting its mistakes and restoring the balance over time Russ mate.
Our posting on here is part of that very process.
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Russ of the BML
1:23 Tue Nov 11
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Bit deep this but my theory is that the human race was an evolutionary step too far. I honestly believe that our species was a mistake and that we are too intelligent for the world in which we live in.
Intelligence brings about greed, corruption and hate. If you put those things together with a high intelligence, well, the outcome is what we have now.
Imagine this planet if evolution would've stopped at apes. It would be perfection.
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Joke Whole
3:56 Tue Nov 11
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MrCrowmanSir 11:28 Mon Nov 10
..."And only in the last few hundred that we have started making a complete fucking mess of it"...
And only in the last few hundred that CAUCASIANS have started making a complete fucking mess of it.
They fucked up their ideal home environment (Europe) so much that a bunch of them made off for "the New World" to fuck that up, too. In doing so, they then acquired the skills and know-how to fuck up the rest of the planet.
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Gavros
2:09 Tue Nov 11
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My theory is that mashed has been smoking lots of bongs and reading too much HP Lovecraft recently.
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HairySpotter
1:09 Tue Nov 11
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did someone say intelligent life in the universe?
*ducks out acknowledging this is over my head
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