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Post by xkamelx on Jun 9, 2005 19:42:18 GMT -5
Perhaps. I'll choose to believe it as it makes life more interesting.
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Post by voyager on Jun 9, 2005 20:00:29 GMT -5
Think about this Myke, Everest is the highest mountain in the world. To get to the top of the world, you need oxygen, as the air is very thin, and its also very cold at top.
Everest is only 29,035ft (8850m), which is only roughly 5.5 miles high. Keep in mind, the average cruising altitude of an airplane is roughly 35,000 ft, which is roughly 6.63 miles high.
These numbers are based off of the official Everest website, and then converted from feet to miles using a conversion calculator I have(also online conversion calculators are easy to find).
Now imagine trying to breath air from 273,000 ft, which is roughly 51.7 miles high.
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Post by Tobbles on Jun 11, 2005 10:40:09 GMT -5
What troubles me is what happens when events like this happen? Will we all die? Hey my parents always told me life's too short never thought they meant literally.
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Post by valderra on Jun 11, 2005 12:09:27 GMT -5
what happens when events like this happen? Will we all die? God... I hope so. Earth is in urgent need to recover from what modern humans have done to it. But failing the "day after tomorrow" theory, there are still all those meteors to look forward to. ;D
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Post by xkamelx on Jun 11, 2005 12:30:49 GMT -5
I would hope some of us survive. I wouldn't mind living in a post apocalyptic Earth.
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Post by valderra on Jun 11, 2005 12:41:57 GMT -5
I would hope some of us survive. I wouldn't mind living in a post apocalyptic Earth. Hmmm... I always pictured myself - armed to the teeth - in a world that is pretty much devoid of people. But now that I am getting older, I think I would prefer giving Earth a second chance and see what comes next crawling out of the ocean...
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Post by Tobbles on Jun 11, 2005 14:28:10 GMT -5
what happens when events like this happen? Will we all die? God... I hope so. Earth is in urgent need to recover from what modern humans have done to it. But failing the "day after tomorrow" theory, there are still all those meteors to look forward to. ;D You really want to die? I don't!
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Post by valderra on Jun 11, 2005 14:43:27 GMT -5
You really want to die? I don't! It's not so much a matter of WANTING to die but to recognise what is good for Earth. I rather live to be a hundred but if Earth can get another chance to get back to how it was a couple of hundred years ago, I would be willing to die a little earlier - after all, we all have to go one day. But as I said before, you are still very young and when I was your age I thought differently too.
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Post by xkamelx on Jun 11, 2005 16:06:14 GMT -5
What was so good about a couple hundred years ago? I mean granted, I do understand the desire to see those times, and understand the almost poetic nature of those times, but even then there was war, disease, murder, genocide, evil dictators, rape, pedophelia, adultary, ect.
The way I see it, the only thing that has changed between then and now are lines on a map, and technology. Human kind is was just as bad then as now.
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Post by valderra on Jun 11, 2005 16:59:37 GMT -5
What was so good about a couple hundred years ago? I mean granted, I do understand the desire to see those times, and understand the almost poetic nature of those times, but even then there was war, disease, murder, genocide, evil dictators, rape, pedophelia, adultary, ect. The way I see it, the only thing that has changed between then and now are lines on a map, and technology. Human kind is was just as bad then as now. I wasn't talking about the "good old days", I was talking about the air, less polution, the rain forest still intact, species that are now extinct still around - that's what I was talking about. I could have said 500 or a thousand years ago but a couple of hundred years back the eco world was still much more intact... OK, 300 years ago. LOL
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Post by xkamelx on Jun 12, 2005 17:01:08 GMT -5
Well, I'd much rather see tecnogoy destroy Earth, so given that i allows us to seek out new planets to colonize, preferably planets much like our own was a thousand years ago, minus humans.
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Post by voyager on Jun 14, 2005 16:46:49 GMT -5
I would hope some of us survive. I wouldn't mind living in a post apocalyptic Earth. nd I have a bomb shelter so I would survive, even if a Day after Tomorrow event occured.
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Post by valderra on Jun 15, 2005 9:50:35 GMT -5
I would hope some of us survive. I wouldn't mind living in a post apocalyptic Earth. nd I have a bomb shelter so I would survive, even if a Day after Tomorrow event occured. No you wouldn't. This ice age isn't just going on for 3 years and you can't tell me you have enough provision, if nothing else, for 30-odd years.
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Post by voyager on Jun 16, 2005 16:09:43 GMT -5
nd I have a bomb shelter so I would survive, even if a Day after Tomorrow event occured. No you wouldn't. This ice age isn't just going on for 3 years and you can't tell me you have enough provision, if nothing else, for 30-odd years. If a "day after tomorrow" event were to happen suddenly like that, I would be fine, because I could easily dig my way out of the shelter after the initial freezing, and then move to warmer climate. My shelter can also hold upto a 45 day supply of stuff as well, which I could easily manage to spread out even longer.
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Post by valderra on Jun 16, 2005 16:13:49 GMT -5
No you wouldn't. This ice age isn't just going on for 3 years and you can't tell me you have enough provision, if nothing else, for 30-odd years. If a "day after tomorrow" event were to happen suddenly like that, I would be fine, because I could easily dig my way out of the shelter after the initial freezing, and then move to warmer climate. My shelter can also hold upto a 45 day supply of stuff as well, which I could easily manage to spread out even longer. 45 days? You will NEVER survive. What do you think is going to happen after 45 days? That is will only be like a nasty old winter? It will be so cold that you couldn't survive outside. And how would you get to a warmer climate? By dog sledge? LOL
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