magma wrote:I'm not convinced of this dude's biology credentials, you know.
Lol, I'm w/ u on that one.
Motorway to Roswell wrote:People would do the same thing to the next planet.
About 95% sure of this.
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:17 pm
by magma
nowaysj wrote:
Motorway to Roswell wrote:People would do the same thing to the next planet.
About 95% sure of this.
With a possibly (for all intents and purposes) infinite number of colonisable worlds.... does it have to matter in the end?
Humans come, do their shit for a few thousand years, have their civilisation, world becomes unfit for humans, humans leave, planet evolves new life in all the places we leave empty?
I mean, it's not exactly a sentimentally beautiful existance, but I can't actually work out what the intrinsic problem with it is when you think on a geological/planetary scale (millions of years)...
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:39 pm
by frank grimes jr.
What have we got that's worth saving?
Fox news?
Corduroy pants?
Watches that are actually teeny calculators?
I for one am not interested in expending an infinite amount of energy to reach another inhabitable planet, based solely on the idea that Vince from Slap Chop needs to keep his legacy alive.
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:50 pm
by magma
frank grimes jr. wrote:I for one am not interested in expending an infinite amount of energy to reach another inhabitable planet, based solely on the idea that Vince from Slap Chop needs to keep his legacy alive.
Yeah, but there's never been an otter that wrote a concerto as well as Bach has there? Humans are fucking ace. Ok, so it takes about 5,000 Ian van Dahl's and shit indie bands to produce a single Kode9, but still... it's better than anyone else around here seems to have managed. Too busy fucking, eating and dying. Animals....*
*this is mainly a joke.
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:53 pm
by frank grimes jr.
Duly noted: Magma hates Otters.
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 10:27 pm
by kay
frank grimes jr. wrote:Duly noted: Magma hates Otters.
Fucker.
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:02 pm
by nowaysj
frank grimes jr. wrote:I for one am not interested in expending an infinite amount of energy to reach another inhabitable planet, based solely on the idea that Vince from Slap Chop needs to keep his legacy alive.
Have kids?
I'd spend 30 years in deep space to have my daughter experience the joy of carrying her sleeping child in her arms.*
* Not joking.
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:10 pm
by HamCrescendo
Who else started humming "night" everytime the squid appeared?
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 12:06 am
by deadly_habit
animals don't make music eh?
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 12:19 am
by Dipt
danrev wrote:Who else started humming "night" everytime the squid appeared?
haha i'm with ya on that one.
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 12:53 pm
by frank grimes jr.
nowaysj wrote:
frank grimes jr. wrote:I for one am not interested in expending an infinite amount of energy to reach another inhabitable planet, based solely on the idea that Vince from Slap Chop needs to keep his legacy alive.
Have kids?
I do have one, and it is my responsibility to teach him to respect his habitat.
My family does not rape and pillage the resources available to us. It's not a difficult concept.
Also, whales are gay.
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 1:03 pm
by jigglypuff
baaah these squid seem like worthy pray... gonna be eating good for a few nights
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 1:10 pm
by magma
kay wrote:
frank grimes jr. wrote:Duly noted: Magma hates Otters.
Fucker.
Otters, Stoats, Mink, Weasels... Beavers..... I SHIT 'EM.
Mink Floyd wrote:OI! BEAVER! LEAVE OUR TREES ALONE!
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 1:51 pm
by karmacazee
I'm with Deadly, we don't know squat. Hell, we can't even explain why we fuck. Sexual reproduction, and all the advantages and disadvantages that come with it, including death, don't make sense from an evolutionary standpoint. Asexual reproduction should be the norm, yet there it is - everywhere you look animals are fucking. Even Darwin couldn't explain it, and to this day, it still eludes our top biologists like Dawkins.
And fucking magnets, how do they work??
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 2:11 pm
by alien pimp
karmacazee wrote:Hell, we can't even explain why we fuck. Sexual reproduction, and all the advantages and disadvantages that come with it, including death, don't make sense from an evolutionary standpoint. Asexual reproduction should be the norm, yet there it is - everywhere you look animals are fucking. Even Darwin couldn't explain it, and to this day, it still eludes our top biologists like Dawkins.
dude, every sentence in this quote is wrong, except the one about darwin, but only because genetics developed a bit later. ask someone with a degree or google, the answer is basic. i can't be bothered, sorry
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 2:32 pm
by frank grimes jr.
karmacazee wrote:
And fucking magnets, how do they work??
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 2:50 pm
by karmacazee
alien pimp wrote:
karmacazee wrote:Hell, we can't even explain why we fuck. Sexual reproduction, and all the advantages and disadvantages that come with it, including death, don't make sense from an evolutionary standpoint. Asexual reproduction should be the norm, yet there it is - everywhere you look animals are fucking. Even Darwin couldn't explain it, and to this day, it still eludes our top biologists like Dawkins.
dude, every sentence in this quote is wrong, except the one about darwin, but only because genetics developed a bit later. ask someone with a degree or google, the answer is basic. i can't be bothered, sorry
Are you talking about the Red Queen hypothesis? Where we evolved to mix up our genes through sexual reproduction to out-evolve our parasites?
Well there's problems and contradicting evidence to that. Ask someone with a degree or google, I can't be bothered.
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:24 pm
by nowaysj
frank grimes jr. wrote:I do have one, and it is my responsibility to teach him to respect his habitat.
My family does not rape and pillage the resources available to us. It's not a difficult concept.
Think there are too many people here already to live in a sustainable manner.
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:16 pm
by kay
magma wrote:
kay wrote:
frank grimes jr. wrote:Duly noted: Magma hates Otters.
Fucker.
Otters, Stoats, Mink, Weasels... Beavers..... I SHIT 'EM.
Ok some of them are not so brilliant. But Weasels??? Next you'll be saying ferrets are shit too!
Re: what we don't understand on our own planet
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:33 pm
by xarcane
WTF, squids can't become sentient. Their brains are all instinct.