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Svartalf wrote:yeah, the 1908 Tunguska event never took place.
aufbahrung wrote:I'm saying with far-fetched sketches it's the emotional impact, not the plausibility, that provides the whack on a day to day basis. Doesn't need to be real to kill you. Losing hope is sufficient.
aufbahrung wrote:I'd say nukes are no more real than satans arse until the day they are used. Such a black swan event would be beyond the cusp of reason, even if the probability is higher than the said arse.
aufbahrung wrote:I'm saying with far-fetched sketches it's the emotional impact, not the plausibility, that provides the whack on a day to day basis. Doesn't need to be real to kill you. Losing hope is sufficient.
Spearthrower wrote:
Nukes and climate change, of course, are a bit different as they're self-inflicted and the only protection against them is us stopping ourselves from being utter fucking plonkers.
Svartalf wrote:
I've heard that even if the Chicxulub meteor spewed the matter the marks the Cretaceous Eocene limit, the actual transition between the two was caused by massive volcanic activity, that left us traces like the Deccan traps.
virtually killed off all plant and animal life within a few days (or weeks at the most).
The idea that it took some time, (some say a 'million years' or so), for the dinosaurs of that era to die out is apparently not correct.
CdesignProponentsist wrote:I believe in the end times. Some time in the next few trillion years I'm guessing.
aufbahrung wrote:Extinction rates are throught the roof and oceans full of plastic and dead fish. I'm not saying its the end of the world but surely the end of complex life is on the cards?
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