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pharmakos

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i actually love Spaceballs i was just trolling.

History of the World Part 1 is sweet too
 
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Draegan_sl said:
Now that hodj is taking a break, maybe we can enjoy this thread again.
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Lejina

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pharmakos_sl said:
we've been getting high 80s / low 90s here in Michigan this summer. sure would make the below 0 winters nicer, though.
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What I'm curious of is just how many in this discussion are confused with the degree scale actually used in the papers.
 
ZyyzYzzy

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Szlia_sl said:
... in the same way I am pretty sure the water level of the oceans will not rise faster than it takes to build a levy around New York, I am a bit perplexed that you make it sound like there is no possible changes in what we farm, gather and hunt that could accommodate for a warmer climate even after catastrophic events like the death of most flowering plants because of the death of bees. Mushrooms? Algae? Insects?
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First, thinking a levy can be built around a city like New York to prevent it from being underwater if all the ice caps melt is dumb.

We could adapt to different plant and fungi species for agriculture I think for 2 reasons. First, genetic engineering has allowed us to modify our food crops at an astronomical pace compared to regular crop selection. Second, even though a rapid increase in global temperature may be catastrophic for animals (mammals in particular), plant life would probably flourish.

Most likely though, as Eomer said, such a drastic change in temperature can be catastrophic and cause global societal collapse. I mean, look at first world nations, we lose our shit when it snows or Netflix doesn't stream in HD.
 
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i predict that in the wake of the apocalypse, Monsanto saves the day, and only America lives because everywhere else on God's green earth has banned Monsanto's miracle food.

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Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World are must see's. They should be required in high school.

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ZyyzYzzy_sl said:
First, thinking a levy can be built around a city like New York to prevent it from being underwater if all the ice caps melt is dumb.

We could adapt to different plant and fungi species for agriculture I think for 2 reasons. First, genetic engineering has allowed us to modify our food crops at an astronomical pace compared to regular crop selection. Second, even though a rapid increase in global temperature may be catastrophic for animals (mammals in particular), plant life would probably flourish.

Most likely though, as Eomer said, such a drastic change in temperature can be catastrophic and cause global societal collapse. I mean, look at first world nations, we lose our shit when it snows or Netflix doesn't stream in HD.
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Even global societal collapse is a long way from extinction though. Shit has to go really, really sideways before humans are incapable of inhabiting the earth.
 
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I can't believe this is up for debate at all in the same breath that people are saying we should be looking into space colonization.

We need to go to Mars or somewhere else that is currently not conducive to human life because our planet someday might not be ....

If we can colonize Mars we can "colonize" Earth and let our atmosphere recover.
 
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ZyyzYzzy_sl said:
First, thinking a levy can be built around a city like New York to prevent it from being underwater if all the ice caps melt is dumb.
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If both ice caps melt completely, the estimation is a raise of 60 meters of the sea level, so yeah, but the temperature and the time frame needed for that to happen are way out of the boundaries of the current discussion though. What's more in line with it is a pessimistic estimate for the next couple centuries that predicts a sea level raise of something like 3 meters. I have no idea how fubared city planning is in New York, but I think it's pretty safe to assume it's still something they can manage.
 
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The amount of stupidity in these last few pages is staggering. a_skeleton_03, dunno why the fuck you're not on my ignore list anymore but since I wasted my time reading your dumb ass post, I'm not gonna waste more time trying to explain something that basic. Go learn something instead of wasting your fucking life on rerolled.

Anyway, hodj stop wasting your time trying to reason with these guys, they're really not worth the effort.
 
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I guess nobody here saw Interstellar. It's more of a premonition than a movie really. Who needs agriculture when you have space travel and can crack quantum theory?
 
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Khane_sl said:
I guess nobody here saw Interstellar. It's more of a premonition than a movie really. Who needs agriculture when you have space travel and can crack quantum theory?
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I thought in Interstellar, there was some kind of nebulous infection/cause for blight that was systematically killing the crops. Not climate change per se but just some "reason" not explained that crops wouldn't grow, giving impetus to do space stuff.
 
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