Comments on: Can humans survive the next century?

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:30:55 +0000

Shut it!

Just read over what I wrote and thought “oh god I sound like i’m about to break out into singing Imagine by John Lennon”…

By: Kismet Hardy

Kismet Hardy — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:24:15 +0000

Leon, spoken like a true pot head

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:20:05 +0000

“Having everyone smoke pot is the only solution.”

Don’t agree, tbh I think our species really needs to evolve, letting go of things like substance abuse, religion and politics. Not sure how you get there or what will replace it but that’s my feeling on the subject…

By: Joe90

Joe90 — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:03:54 +0000

Of course humans will survive the next hundred years.

Question is, which ones, and will the world they inherit be the kind of place a decent person would wish to live in?

Hawking’s fantasies about colonising other planets are ridiculous. It’d be far easier to colonise the Antarctic en masse than Mars, and even that seems hardly feasible, certainly not very enticing.

By: sonia

sonia — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:43:50 +0000

I like your kind of thinking SastaRasta

By: mirax

mirax — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:43:10 +0000

>>How can we survive the next hundred years when we celebrate such ignorance and stupidly?

Don’t be naive TFI. Big boobs and waist-hip ratios are crucial to survival, not map reading skills! Spain, america, brazil etc are all arbitrary invented concepts anyway.

By: SastaRasta

SastaRasta — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:30:50 +0000

Having everyone smoke pot is the only solution. There will be no war anymore. Damn governments.

By: TheFriendlyInfidel

TheFriendlyInfidel — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:41:44 +0000

I’m ashamed to admit this, but I couldn’t be arsed to turn the TV around yesterday and wound up with “celebrity love island” on the TV and stood agog at the vacuous “celebrities”.

However when they did there first test, they had to put names on countries. When they failed to identify America, South Africa and Spain I was laughing for a good 20 mins.

How can we survive the next hundred years when we celebrate such ignorance and stupidly?

TFI

By: TheFriendlyInfidel

TheFriendlyInfidel — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:34:04 +0000

*this is my brother on the subject*

Damn! will you look at that beard! A beard like that must come with sandals with socks. I can deduce this fact from one of the universeâ€™s global invariants.

sandals + socks = beard

TFI

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:36:01 +0000

The devil always wears Prada

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:32:05 +0000

“Though itâ€™ll be a waste of my beautiful and intelligent genes”

Levis or Mochino?

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:02:04 +0000

There was an article in the Economist a few years ago (and I may have mentioned this already) that said the best gift humans can give to the planet is stop pro-creating.

Now I don’t see the point in why we’re so obsessed with procreation and letting things go on. I’m not that fussed about having kids, I’m happy adopting. Though it’ll be a waste of my beautiful and intelligent genes (any smart-ass comment and I’ll ban you! promise! It’s my new comments policy).

I don’t think humans will manage more than a hundred years. And that may not entirely be a bad thing for other inhabitants of this beautiful planet.

By: mirax

mirax — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:27:39 +0000

will take myself off before I depress anyone further.

By: mirax

mirax — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:26:20 +0000

>>this is my brother on the subject

Your brother -the prophet of immortality- has already groomed the methuselah look to a T.

methinks that much like everything else on this planet – the benefits of the research Aubrey de Grey is undertaking will go to s/he who pays the highest price for it. Those poor men in Swaziland (lifespan 37 years) and women in Zimbabwe (34 years!!) will continue to die like flies.

By: justforfun

justforfun — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:11:04 +0000

*rolls eyes*

http://kismethardy.blogspot.com

You have to go to the Dashboard and go to Template, I think.

no password required on blogger? If your password is not written down don’t clean out your cookies or you may lose the MS automatic password fill in – or so my 8 year old tells me.

Justforfun

By: justforfun

justforfun — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:04:46 +0000

TFI – the “review page” is my request – I’ve had to lick ass for weeks to get it on the perhaps list – get your own !!

I agree with Bikhair – bit harsh on Bayah or am I just to soft.

100 years – no problem – this is my brother on the subject

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4003063.stm

Justforfun

By: don

don — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:46:54 +0000

Maybe evolution made us smart enough to cause the problem, but not smart enough to fix it.

Back to the drawing board.

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:32:15 +0000

@ comment 28: Check out Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies – Richard Heinberg. Just ordered this myself from play.com: http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/850571/Party_Over/Product.html

By: mirax

mirax — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:17:47 +0000

Kismet you sly old thing- having your own blog and not letting on!Tsk.

Ok, the archives are a bit empty but that one post up so far, should have helped you pull at least a couple of gullible women.Where’s the photo? Not that it matters to me, you understand – my love is true…

By: Katy Newton

Katy Newton — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:50:54 +0000

*rolls eyes*

http://kismethardy.blogspot.com

You have to go to the Dashboard and go to Template, I think.