 theliberator
Male, 13-17, Europe
 4 Posts
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012 12:03:22 PM
Pretty small if you ask me. |
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 TruTenrMan
Male, 30-39, Southern US
2174 Posts
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Monday, January 09, 2012 6:26:16 AM
And people really think we're the only living, sapient beings in the entire universe?
To quote from the movie Contact: "If it IS just us... seems like an awful waste of space." |
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TunaSunrise
Male, 30-39, Europe
11 Posts
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Monday, January 09, 2012 1:26:33 AM
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air... |
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 fps_will
Male, 18-29, Western US
102 Posts
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Monday, January 09, 2012 12:51:56 AM
watching this late at night, slightly stoned, makes me feel so insignificant, makes you realise how pathetic our earthly struggles really are. |
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Stand4Christ
Male, 18-29, Southern US
35 Posts
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Sunday, January 08, 2012 9:24:58 PM
That was awesome. Really makes your realize how precious this earth is. We are so small compared to the vastness of space and time. Yet, God, while existing outside of all of that space and time, still knows each one of us better than we know ourselves and loves us regardless of what we think of ourselves. |
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 Kiaran123
Male, 30-39, Europe
113 Posts
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Sunday, January 08, 2012 6:27:37 PM
I can see my laptop from here. |
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blinkrayray
Male, 18-29, Europe
25 Posts
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Sunday, January 08, 2012 12:46:24 PM
Well I feel pretty insignificant! :( |
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 Suicism
Male, 18-29, Western US
3534 Posts
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Sunday, January 08, 2012 1:01:27 AM
Dude, not cool - they didn't include my home planet!
I'm feeling existential loneliness after watching this again. |
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 ledzeppeloyd
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2184 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 11:40:25 PM
yea what some religious dont understand is that wer are a infinitesimal speck of cosmic dust on the intergalactic plane |
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 Linkenberger
Male, 18-29, Canada
1067 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 7:07:13 PM
" "The marriage of the human body and technology will probably be sooner than you think."
Yeah sure. Only for the ones who can afford to do so. Meanwhile, those left behind should have no trouble smashing the servers and wiping those rich fcukers out" "
You really think my super-powerful robotic arm and mega-vision cyborg eyes will depend on a server? Sure, and my augmented shock-absorbing legs will be running Windows 8. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9554 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 4:19:32 PM
@Byfield
You honestly believe that in the 5 - 7 billion years the Earth can sustain life that technology won't have advanced enough to reach another solar system? Even is light-speed travel is impossible, a ship that would have multiple generations on board to get to a new solar system is possible.
That's not what he wrote. He wrote this:
it is unlikely we will ever be able to communicate or identify another intelligent life form outside the confines of our solar system
Given the size of the universe, that is true. Even if our descendents develop interstellar travel and expand to an empire of a million stars, that's still such a miniscule part of the universe that it would be very unlikely to intersect with any other intelligent life, even if they too have an empire of a million stars, even if there are thousands of those empires. |
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 auburnjunky
Male, 30-39, Southern US
8695 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 2:40:22 PM
Where did my post go? |
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vestax
Male, 40-49, Western US
50 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 11:14:03 AM
"The marriage of the human body and technology will probably be sooner than you think."
Yeah sure. Only for the ones who can afford to do so. Meanwhile, those left behind should have no trouble smashing the servers and wiping those rich fcukers out. |
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 Draculya
Male, 30-39, Asia
6328 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 9:35:16 AM
I actually fell asleep. Literally asleep. |
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 Thonious
Male, 40-49, Western US
574 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 9:16:40 AM
Charles and Ray Eames did this sort of thing in 1968 with a film called "Powers of Ten." You may have seen it in grade school. |
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 ihurtmyself
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
363 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 9:04:08 AM
wow, roomy. |
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 Samsquanch
Male, 30-39, Canada
794 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 7:17:43 AM
Known and knowable...there is a slight difference. Known=studied and understood. Knowable=available for study.
Known universe barely extends past our stratosphere...and even then, that's a tenuous grasp of knowledge about our dear little planet.
Will humans be around in 5 billion years to see our sun die out? Hard to say, really. Our species, homo sapien sapien won't be around for sure. We're due to make our next evolutionary leap very soon, and thanks to our penchant for technology, that will probably be sooner than you think. The marriage of the human body and technology is very close on the horizon. Perhaps soon, we will be homo sapien machina. |
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 Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25642 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 6:45:58 AM
There's no marketable incentive to go to other planets. Where's the profit in spending all that money?
We are ruled by Ferengi. |
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 madest
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
6407 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 4:34:40 AM
Unless of course we go extinct.. but that's kind of unlikely.
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That's what the dinosaurs said. |
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furrything
Male, 50-59, Europe
348 Posts
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Saturday, January 07, 2012 2:28:11 AM
The human race will NEVER leave this system. They're simply too venal and petty. |
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intrigid
Male, 18-29, Canada
879 Posts
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Friday, January 06, 2012 11:02:44 PM
"You honestly believe that in the 5 - 7 billion years the Earth can sustain life that technology won't have advanced enough to reach another solar system?"
It's entirely possible that we simply can't harness enough energy to travel, and even if we would, there might not be any habitable planets within a travelable distance. |
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 PacoP42
Male, 13-17, Western US
1081 Posts
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Friday, January 06, 2012 10:31:53 PM
i wonder what kind of processor it took to render that. made me nauseous |
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 OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8742 Posts
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Friday, January 06, 2012 10:12:28 PM
It would have been better if on the way back they would have zoomed in on some girl sunbathing topless in her backyard. |
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 TheShgn2
Male, 13-17, Southern US
631 Posts
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Friday, January 06, 2012 6:49:35 PM
*if light-speed, not is |
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TheShgn2
Male, 13-17, Southern US
631 Posts
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Friday, January 06, 2012 6:48:52 PM
@Byfield
You honestly believe that in the 5 - 7 billion years the Earth can sustain life that technology won't have advanced enough to reach another solar system? Even is light-speed travel is impossible, a ship that would have multiple generations on board to get to a new solar system is possible. (Like in WALL-E) Unless of course we go extinct.. but that's kind of unlikely. |
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