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Submitted by <evil-science.at.spamex.com> (View user info) at 2009-01-20 03:05:10 EST
THE INSIGNIFICANCE OF THE HUMAN RACE
A Chronology of the Earth
Event Date Time Years Ago
Big Bang Jan. 1 12:00 AM 15,000,000,000 yr
CMB forms Jan. 1 12:10:30 AM 14,999,700,000yr
Galaxies form Jan. 24 12:00 AM 14,000,000,000 yr
Sun forms Sept. 13 noon 4,500,000,000 yr
Earth forms Sept. 13 12:17 PM 4,400,000,000 yr
1st life appears Oct. 24 8:48 PM 2,800,000,000 yr
1st higher forms Dec. 19 3:07 AM 570,000,000 yr
1st land animals Dec. 25 4:29 AM 280,000,000 yr
1st dinosaurs Dec. 26 12:36 PM 225,000,000 yr
Dinos Rule! Dec. 28 4:34 PM 136,000,000 yr
Dinos Die! Dec. 29 10:02 PM 65,000,000 yr
Earliest "human" Dec. 31 9:05 PM 5,000,000 yr
Neanderthal - CM Dec. 31 11:50 PM 300,000 yr
Last Ice Age Dec. 31 11:59:37 PM 1,000 yr
Pyramids Dec. 31 11:59:53 PM 3,500 yr
USA Dec. 31 11:59:59.6 PM 220 yr
You Dec. 31 11:59:59.96 PM 20 yr
In the table above, the time from the Big Bang until today is compressed into one year; it is a scale model of the time history of universe with a scale of 1/15,000,000,000. Adapted from The Evolution of Life, by Frank H.T. Rhodes.
The earth is a living organism it has bean alive for billions of years
The human race have lived our parasitic existence for an insignificantly short time yet the damage done is immeasurable. In order for us to slow down the impact of our species on the environment will take every single individual to work together in harmony.
YER RIGHT LIKE THAT'S EVER GOING TO HAPPEN.
WE WILL CONSUME OUR SELVES INTO EXTINCTION FIRST.
When animals are over grassing and starvation and the death of the herd is inevitable without outside interference the kindest thing to do is cull the herd.
WE ARE ANIMALS !
BEST POSSIBLE CASE SCENARIO
Recovery of the earth after the
MASS EXTINCTION OF THE HUMAN RACE
Light pollution would be the first to go, followed by fields, buildings and cities
IF MAN were to vanish from the face of the Earth today, his footprint on the planet would linger for the mere blink of an eye in geological terms.
Within hours, nature would begin to eradicate its impact. In 50,000 years all that would remain would be archaeological traces. Only radioactive materials and a few man-made chemical contaminants would last longer — an invisible legacy.
Sunday Times
Homo sapiens has managed just 150,000 years on Earth, and his earliest — debatable — ancestor only six million. By contrast, the dinosaurs populated the planet for 165 million years.
Man's environmental footprint would, according to a report in New Scientist, begin to deteriorate almost immediately, with light pollution the first to go as power stations ceased to provide energy.
By tomorrow, street lights and house lights left on by their former occupants would start to go out.
Streets and cultivated fields would be the next to go. Within 20 years village streets and rural roads would have vanished under a matting of weeds; fields would be overgrown within months. Urban streets would take a little longer, but even in huge man-made sprawls, such as London and Birmingham, plants would have taken over in about 50 years.
Buildings would decay rapidly. Wooden structures would collapse first, assaulted by bugs and grubs. All such homes would be gone in a century.
Glass and steel tower blocks that create city skylines would mostly fall down within 200 years. Brick, stone and concrete structures would last longer. With exceptions — the pyramids are already 3,000 years old — by the next millennium there would be little more left than ruins.
"If tomorrow dawns without humans, even from orbit the change will be evident almost immediately," Bob Holmes, of New Scientist, said. "With no-one to make repairs, every storm, flood and frosty night gnaws away at abandoned buildings and within a few decades roofs will begin to fall in and buildings collapse."
Ronald Chesser, of Texas Tech University, said: "The most pervasive thing you see are plants whose root systems get into the concrete and behind the bricks and into door frames and so forth and are rapidly breaking up the structure."
Wildlife would thrive in the absence of Man. Most of the 15,589 threatened species will begin to recover immediately towards historical populations.
Carbon dioxide emissions would continue to cause climate change for another 100 years, but after 1,000 years all would be back to pre-industrial levels, with all man-made traces vanishing in 20,000 years.
However, the most radioactive of untreated nuclear waste would not be safe for up to two million years, John Large, an independent nuclear consultant, said. Man-made chemicals, especially perfluorinated types, would not break down for up to 200,000 years, although it is thought that they would have been buried long before then.
If, 50,000 years hence, an alien archaeologist were to land on an Earth without Man, it might be quite frustrated by the paucity of evidence that we were here at all.
(Michael Webber 2009)
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Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-01-21 23:35:04 EST (#)
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Submitted by DietCoke (user info) at 2009-01-20 10:36:28 EST (#)
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God said, "Let there be light. And he saw it was good." About 6000 years ago.
There. Now you will get "Most Heated" because 50 people will reply 10X that there is no God.
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Not by your ignorant definition, you detestable primate...
Submitted by pandora (user info) at 2009-01-21 23:17:37 EST (#)
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I've been a raging bitch on the rag all day. This post made me feel good.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-01-20 15:42:23 EST (#)
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I LIKE BUTTS
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2009-01-20 14:32:42 EST (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-01-20 12:35:44 EST (#)
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There is no such thing as evil science or evil knowledge. Only evil people.
The thing about evil people is that they're usually interesting. But you are not evil. From what I can tell by what you post, you're actually quite bland.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2009-01-20 12:33:00 EST (#)
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i like
Submitted by sandmantate (user info) at 2009-01-20 11:56:01 EST (#)
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I'm so glad you posted.
Submitted by DietCoke (user info) at 2009-01-20 10:36:28 EST (#)
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God said, "Let there be light. And he saw it was good." About 6000 years ago.
There. Now you will get "Most Heated" because 50 people will reply 10X that there is no God.
Submitted by rubbermaid (user info) at 2009-01-20 10:23:55 EST (#)
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"The earth is a living organism it has bean..."
I got to here and wondered if it were navy, pinto, kidney, black, red, pink, green, wax, soy, cannellini, lima, faba, or some other type that I'm not familiar with.
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2009-01-20 10:19:33 EST (#)
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Before Bubba will say it: it's hippie, dipshit!
So what you trying to say is those: "touchy feely, mamby pamby ,wacko greeny hippie extremists" leave less skidmarks on this planet to remember them by when there's noone left to remember them by..... that must be a bummer.
Who will remember George W, Adolf Hitler and all other respectable politicians?
Submitted by august_sobriquet (user info) at 2009-01-20 10:16:27 EST (#)
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I like this timeline. The rest, WTFINRAT.
I have these friends who are into stuff like astrology and also believe that spirits of actual people retaining a ghosty image of their corporeal form and some kind of memory of their life slink around at night. It is all so silly. Where are all the dinosaur ghosts? What about that thirteenth zodiac sign? And that, btw, the only heavenly bodies that affect us (by no measurable force) are only the ones we knew about 1,000 years ago.
I wish I could believe that we are somehow some kind of protected and favored pinnacle of design and therefore will receive some kind of preferential treatment whereby we don't just suck out and disappear at death. (e.g. christian heaven)
It is a bummer that I can't believe in much except that we are here, things have been here before us, and other things are gonna happen after we're gone.
While the sheer awesomeness of nature's design is undeniably amazing in that it all works, from our bodies to ecosystems to the earth, it is a tough nut to swallow to buy into all of the made up crap that humans have spewed out.
I am however, a tree hugging hippy because, really, if this is all we have, and if we fuck it up, we are doomed- well, then, what else is there to care about?
Submitted by SilvrWolf (user info) at 2009-01-20 03:26:39 EST (#)
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I hate it when living organisms start bean alive. It's just rude.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2009-01-20 03:12:57 EST (#)
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as far as i am concerned, earth only exists so that it may support the human race. we wont be around for too much longer so fuck it, lets destroy it.
somebody is smoking weed nearby. i think it is the emo kid two doors down. i wish i could evict him. i wish i had that power. also i wish i had some weed.