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Me too.
Me neither. There's no reason they need to be mutually exclusive though. Why can't we strive to improve the human condition in the profane here and now, while also seeking after God's good grace?
If we could hypothetically mitigate an impending catastrophe, would belief in the afterlife be a justifiable argument against acting?
Of course, it seems obvious to me that the fate of humanity is not in humanity's hands. We're like 8 billion water droplets falling from a high cliff on our way out to sea. We look around, and we can clearly observe that we're falling; we see the ocean rising up to meet us, but gravity is inexorable. Such is fate. For what it's worth, I don't believe "climate change" is likely to be wisely or effectively managed or mitigated by mere humans, but I also can't see any reason to doubt it's happening.
That's an entirely plausible scenario.
I must agree we need a stern and capable space force!
Just think how useful all the climate scientists might be, devising evil ways for us to cause warming on other worlds.
Somewhere in the vastness of space right this minute, an evil intergalactic despot might be having her minions report to her on our defenses.
If all our world could unite together and treat each other as brothers and sisters, and comrades in arms, then we’d need an effective cold fusion generator to power our star battle cruisers.
And since all the big airplanes today are controlled in English we’d have to teach every tongue to speak it, for command unity.
But to paraphrase Churchill the present world is like a fat cow, tied up for slaughter.
We spend our time hating each other, when we ought to be preparing for the final battle in the heavens above.
I just hate that science stuff gets politicized. It only makes sense that if we are going to err, that it would make the most sense to err on the side of caution. We only have one planet, one environment, and it only makes sense to keep it clean. Hell, it wasn't that long ago that Nixon headed up the push to clean up the air and environment. So, some fuel billionaires take a dip on the stock exchange. Boo hoo.
The near total elimination of fossil fuels will be one of the greatest blessings science has ever bestowed on the human race, so long as the new alternative fuel is better and cheaper than what is used today in Humansville.
Humansville, Missouri - Wikipedia
Until it’s better and cheaper it’s not a viable alternative.
Eric Idle wrote the song. Whistling by Neil Innes
There are genuine environmental/ecological issues that need to be addressed...but it's all been hijacked by the CO2 control utter nonsense.
I heard a guy that studies insects joke that the aliens probably already landed and when they looked at the planet they correctly assumed that ants are the dominant life form.
Ah, gotcha! Can't help you with that one though. Haven't a clue who she was..... But I'll bet she was a goer! Lol
Just so's you guys all know. I am going to claw, scratch, and climb my way to the top of the people cube. I really don't want to be at the bottom of that thing.
Which reminds me of a mystery that's commonly seen in central California at certain times of the year.
18-wheeler tomato hauler trucks. They're trailer-length half tubes with short vertical walls that can be tipped sideways for easy unloading.
We're talking many tons of tomatoes, here, in each trailer. And they're getting highway-jostled for hours after having been dumped in like coal, and they get dumped out like coal.
And through it all they DON'T get smushed.
So, I checked it out.
Sure enough, they've been genetically modified to withstand all that.
However... the same modification also causes them to never really ripen.
They can, however, be made to LOOK ripe by marinating them in warehouses filled with ethylene gas.
In short, you HAVEN'T been imagining it. The tomatoes you ate as a kid WERE better. You're not just getting picky as you get older like your wife says.
The Unsavory Story Of Industrially-Grown Tomatoes
In his book Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Barry Estabrook writes of perfectly round, orangish supermarket tomatoes--grown largely in Florida--and how the migrants who pick them are sometimes bound into modern slavery by farm bosses.
www.npr.org
And in other news, heirloom tomatoes are $4.99/lb!Which reminds me of a mystery that's commonly seen in central California at certain times of the year.
18-wheeler tomato hauler trucks. They're trailer-length half tubes with short vertical walls that can be tipped sideways for easy unloading.
We're talking many tons of tomatoes, here, in each trailer. And they're getting highway-jostled for hours after having been dumped in like coal, and they get dumped out like coal.
And through it all they DON'T get smushed.
So, I checked it out.
Sure enough, they've been genetically modified to withstand all that.
However... the same modification also causes them to never really ripen.
They can, however, be made to LOOK ripe by marinating them in warehouses filled with ethylene gas.
In short, you HAVEN'T been imagining it. The tomatoes you ate as a kid WERE better. You're not just getting picky as you get older like your wife says.
The Unsavory Story Of Industrially-Grown Tomatoes
In his book Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Barry Estabrook writes of perfectly round, orangish supermarket tomatoes--grown largely in Florida--and how the migrants who pick them are sometimes bound into modern slavery by farm bosses.
Right?
And the near-softball-size that heirlooms typically get weigh about two pounds each.
Ten dollar tomatoes... Holy shit.
Thirty years ago I lived in Ohio across the street from a family farm that set up a roadside stand every year at harvest time. Corn and tomatoes. Hauled in from the field on a flatbed pulled by an old-school bigwheel tractor every hour or so, and sold to the drive-by public directly OFF the trailer.
Both were still damp with clingy bits of mud.
Remember paper grocery bags? The big standard size ones? Both the corn and the tomatoes were a dollar a bag. A FULL bag. You'd fill the bags yourself, give the lady a couple bucks, and walk away. My wife and I would go back across the street to a fantastic dinner of nothing but boiled corn and sliced raw tomatoes.
About a year ago I thought to look down on that spot with the GoogleSkyEye.
The farm is now a shopping center.
I actually bought more than $10 of heirloom tomatoes a couple of weeks ago. $25 for a tin of tobacco doesn't sound too bad in comparison!Right?
And the near-softball-size that heirlooms typically get weigh about two pounds each.
Ten dollar tomatoes... Holy shit.
Thirty years ago I lived in Ohio across the street from a family farm that set up a roadside stand every year at harvest time. Corn and tomatoes. Hauled in from the field on a flatbed pulled by an old-school bigwheel tractor every hour or so, and sold to the drive-by public directly OFF the trailer.
Both were still damp with clingy bits of mud.
Remember paper grocery bags? The big standard size ones? Both the corn and the tomatoes were a dollar a bag. A FULL bag. You'd fill the bags yourself, give the lady a couple bucks, and walk away. My wife and I would go back across the street to a fantastic dinner of nothing but boiled corn and sliced raw tomatoes.
About a year ago I thought to look down on that spot with the GoogleSkyEye.
The farm is now a shopping center.
I remember the honor system farm stands from our country drives when we lived in Chicago. Take what you want and leave your money in the tub. Best sweet corn ever.
Paper grocery bags are now all you get in Oregon. Disposable plastic bags are illegal. You can bring your own bags or pay 5¢ for a paper bag. The paper industry lobbyist did a better job than the plastic industry lobbyist
Would they (we!) have to be puree'd in order to fit?
A bit of hyperbole on distances? The nearest star is ca. 93,000,000 miles away.
There may be more galaxies than 200 billion trillion! I posit the universe is infinite. Why not?
This thread has had some slips, so careful! No religion or politics, and unless it's somehow the only comparison, leave Stalin and Hitler out, as well as Putin.
Asked and aswered.
Go back to the first response to the original post, and its reply.
No exaggeration at all.
btw, 93 million miles would only get you to Mars.
Proxima Centauri---Sol's nearest star---is about 25 trillion miles away.
The galaxy count is accurate.
The observable universe is indeed finite. It's about 93 billion light years across. What lies beyond the "edge" is unknown, though. (Philosophically speaking, if the observable stuff expands into it---which is constantly happening---it "becomes" part of Universe.)
Yes.
When I was in 4th grade, it'd get you to our sun.
Yes, the observable university is finite. But I was including the un-observable universe- as more of it becomes observed, the numbers will go up, but there still could be an infinite number of unobservable galaxies and hence stars.
It's hard to imagine and infinite amount of anything! But it could be infinite.