Morality

Esteban de la Sexface said:
SWP's back said:
samharris said:
Are you sure that we have the time ?? ?? I watched a programme last night about a space probe on its way to Pluto,it was launched in 2006. it is travelling at 35,000 miles per hour and will not get there until july 2015 (9yrs).. the nearest planet to us (outside our solar system) is over 100 years travel away at that speed and we have no idea whatsoever if it could even sustain life..

when our time is up here its up for everybody.
35,000 miles an hour eh? 150 years ago, the fastest man had travelled was less than 35 miles an hour.

Give us another thousand years and see how fast we can go then.

Exactly, you cannot base decisions made in the future from limitations that exist today. Who is to say a decision to leave the planet will be necessary. A form of renewable, sustainable energy might make fossil fuels redundant, conversely we could get smashed by a big fucking rock. Who knows. It's 50/50

We have the small problem of the Andromeda galaxy heading straight for us.
 
SWP's back said:
samharris said:
Esteban de la Sexface said:
the decisions we make may or may not be our downfall. Who is to say decisions won't be made to find a new environment for us to survive on and provide a means for us to travel to this new environment before the natural resources or climate of this environment become too hostile for life to survive? It's 50/50

Are you sure that we have the time ?? ?? I watched a programme last night about a space probe on its way to Pluto,it was launched in 2006. it is travelling at 35,000 miles per hour and will not get there until july 2015 (9yrs).. the nearest planet to us (outside our solar system) is over 100 years travel away at that speed and we have no idea whatsoever if it could even sustain life..

when our time is up here its up for everybody.
35,000 miles an hour eh? 150 years ago, the fastest man had travelled was less than 35 miles an hour.

Give us another thousand years and see how fast we can go then.

look how far we have come in 150 years mate..and how much damage to our planet we have caused in that time...

Do you think we have 1000 years left ?? In less than a hundred years there will be no oil/petrol,so unless we can harness nuclear fusion then we're not going to do too well.

100 years ago Titanic took 5 days to cross the atlantic, ships today take about the same time...time does not guarantee everything.
 
samharris said:
SWP's back said:
samharris said:
Are you sure that we have the time ?? ?? I watched a programme last night about a space probe on its way to Pluto,it was launched in 2006. it is travelling at 35,000 miles per hour and will not get there until july 2015 (9yrs).. the nearest planet to us (outside our solar system) is over 100 years travel away at that speed and we have no idea whatsoever if it could even sustain life..

when our time is up here its up for everybody.
35,000 miles an hour eh? 150 years ago, the fastest man had travelled was less than 35 miles an hour.

Give us another thousand years and see how fast we can go then.

look how far we have come in 150 years mate..and how much damage to our planet we have caused in that time...

Do you think we have 1000 years left ?? In less than a hundred years there will be no oil/petrol,so unless we can harness nuclear fusion then we're not going to do too well.

100 years ago Titanic took 5 days to cross the atlantic, ships today take about the same time...time does not guarantee everything.

Yep and a jet can do it under 5 hours.

Also, Titanic was one of the faster ships back then, the fastest ship now could do it a lot faster than that.<br /><br />-- Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:48 pm --<br /><br />
pominoz said:
Esteban de la Sexface said:
SWP's back said:
35,000 miles an hour eh? 150 years ago, the fastest man had travelled was less than 35 miles an hour.

Give us another thousand years and see how fast we can go then.

Exactly, you cannot base decisions made in the future from limitations that exist today. Who is to say a decision to leave the planet will be necessary. A form of renewable, sustainable energy might make fossil fuels redundant, conversely we could get smashed by a big fucking rock. Who knows. It's 50/50

We have the small problem of the Andromeda galaxy heading straight for us.
You think we will be around by then?
 
4.5 billion years.. just in time for the sun entering into it's red giant phase. we'd be fucked anyway.

The missus better have the tea on..
 
SWP's back said:
samharris said:
SWP's back said:
35,000 miles an hour eh? 150 years ago, the fastest man had travelled was less than 35 miles an hour.

Give us another thousand years and see how fast we can go then.

look how far we have come in 150 years mate..and how much damage to our planet we have caused in that time...

Do you think we have 1000 years left ?? In less than a hundred years there will be no oil/petrol,so unless we can harness nuclear fusion then we're not going to do too well.

100 years ago Titanic took 5 days to cross the atlantic, ships today take about the same time...time does not guarantee everything.

Yep and a jet can do it under 5 hours.

Also, Titanic was one of the faster ships back then, the fastest ship now could do it a lot faster than that.

-- Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:48 pm --

pominoz said:
Esteban de la Sexface said:
Exactly, you cannot base decisions made in the future from limitations that exist today. Who is to say a decision to leave the planet will be necessary. A form of renewable, sustainable energy might make fossil fuels redundant, conversely we could get smashed by a big fucking rock. Who knows. It's 50/50

We have the small problem of the Andromeda galaxy heading straight for us.
You think we will be around by then?

4 billion years? nah, i hope we will be well away from here by then.
 
pominoz said:
SWP's back said:
samharris said:
look how far we have come in 150 years mate..and how much damage to our planet we have caused in that time...

Do you think we have 1000 years left ?? In less than a hundred years there will be no oil/petrol,so unless we can harness nuclear fusion then we're not going to do too well.

100 years ago Titanic took 5 days to cross the atlantic, ships today take about the same time...time does not guarantee everything.

Yep and a jet can do it under 5 hours.

Also, Titanic was one of the faster ships back then, the fastest ship now could do it a lot faster than that.

-- Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:48 pm --

pominoz said:
We have the small problem of the Andromeda galaxy heading straight for us.
You think we will be around by then?

4 billion years? nah, i hope we will be well away from here by then.

Earths a great place.. Its us who are fucking it up... we wouldnt be missed.
 
samharris said:
pominoz said:
SWP's back said:
Yep and a jet can do it under 5 hours.

Also, Titanic was one of the faster ships back then, the fastest ship now could do it a lot faster than that.

-- Mon Jul 01, 2013 3:48 pm --


You think we will be around by then?

4 billion years? nah, i hope we will be well away from here by then.

Earths a great place.. Its us who are fucking it up... we wouldnt be missed.

I would like to think that we will learn from what we have done here and not repeat it if we find another home.
But humans being what we are, i doubt it :(
 

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