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  My time on this board has now come to an end

  by IronGland in

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  i'll miss some of you.

  i curse others.

  it's been an interesting 3 years.

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  Goodbye.
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  Describe an Spacecraft

  by Woodsman in

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  how would you describe spacecraft, extraterrestrial beings and futuristic weapons and technology if you could only use a non technical language like that of the ancient jews?

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  Ezekiel's wheel was most likely a Spaceship. Whether it was driven by good angels or wicked angels is still being debated. There was a poster on this site a while back who was very knowledgeable about the various celestial chariots driven by the Lords of Heaven. I'll try to find the links for you. Fascinating stuff.
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  Resources will be gone by 2050

  by oldflame in

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  beijing (reuters) - humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the wwf conservation group said on tuesday.

  populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in a two-yearly report.. "for more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path," wwf director-general james leape said, launching the wwf's 2006 living planet report.. "if everyone around the world lived as those in america, we would need five planets to support us," leape, an american, said in beijing.. people in the united arab emirates were placing most stress per capita on the planet ahead of those in the united states, finland and canada, the report said.. australia was also living well beyond its means.. the average australian used 6.6 "global" hectares to support their developed lifestyle, ranking behind the united states and canada, but ahead of the united kingdom, russia, china and japan.. "if the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in australia, we would require three-and-a-half planets to provide the resources we use and to absorb the waste," said greg bourne, wwf-australia chief executive officer.. everyone would have to change lifestyles -- cutting use of fossil fuels and improving management of everything from farming to fisheries.. "as countries work to improve the well-being of their people, they risk bypassing the goal of sustainability," said leape, speaking in an energy-efficient building at beijing's prestigous tsinghua university.. "it is inevitable that this disconnect will eventually limit the abilities of poor countries to develop and rich countries to maintain their prosperity," he added.. the report said humans' "ecological footprint" -- the demand people place on the natural world -- was 25 percent greater than the planet's annual ability to provide everything from food to energy and recycle all human waste in 2003.. in the previous report, the 2001 overshoot was 21 percent.. "on current projections humanity, will be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050 -- if those resources have not run out by then," the latest report said.. "people are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources.".

  rising population.

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  Humans are obviously the most civilized creatures on the planet.

  Well, yes, because civilization is human construct. One could also say sharks are the most sharklike creatures on the planet.
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  Resources will be gone by 2050

  by oldflame in

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  beijing (reuters) - humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the wwf conservation group said on tuesday.

  populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in a two-yearly report.. "for more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path," wwf director-general james leape said, launching the wwf's 2006 living planet report.. "if everyone around the world lived as those in america, we would need five planets to support us," leape, an american, said in beijing.. people in the united arab emirates were placing most stress per capita on the planet ahead of those in the united states, finland and canada, the report said.. australia was also living well beyond its means.. the average australian used 6.6 "global" hectares to support their developed lifestyle, ranking behind the united states and canada, but ahead of the united kingdom, russia, china and japan.. "if the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in australia, we would require three-and-a-half planets to provide the resources we use and to absorb the waste," said greg bourne, wwf-australia chief executive officer.. everyone would have to change lifestyles -- cutting use of fossil fuels and improving management of everything from farming to fisheries.. "as countries work to improve the well-being of their people, they risk bypassing the goal of sustainability," said leape, speaking in an energy-efficient building at beijing's prestigous tsinghua university.. "it is inevitable that this disconnect will eventually limit the abilities of poor countries to develop and rich countries to maintain their prosperity," he added.. the report said humans' "ecological footprint" -- the demand people place on the natural world -- was 25 percent greater than the planet's annual ability to provide everything from food to energy and recycle all human waste in 2003.. in the previous report, the 2001 overshoot was 21 percent.. "on current projections humanity, will be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050 -- if those resources have not run out by then," the latest report said.. "people are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources.".

  rising population.

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  "I shudder to think what would happen if any of this report comes true."

  In my opinion, lots of humans die off, mostly the poorest in third world countries after which we reach some sort of equilibrium with our resources like we always have.
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  Are we all gonna die?

  by kittyeatzjdubs in

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  i mean, what's to stop this psycho from north korea from sending nukes over here and blowing us all away?

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  ~luv, jojo.

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  The world wouldn't end anyway. We detonated Nukes for test purposes in Nevada all the time in the 50s and 60s. It would be bad for the city that got hit but the destruction of Nukes is a bit overblown. Keep in mind that the hysteria over the world ending during the cold war was due to the fact that a war between the US and Soviets could have resulted in Thousands of missilesbeing detonated all over the Northern Hemisphere each hundreds of times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. N. Korea's 'bomb' was possibly in the 1KT range. Thats 1/20th the size of Hiroshima.

  If he did manage to get one bomb into an American city, we still have hundreds of minuteman missiles that could be retargeted for Pyonyang in a matter of minutes.I dont think the N Korean leadership is suicidal. They're bluffing to get bargaining leverage.
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  evolution or creation? lets talk...

  by Sam87 in

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  ok, lets have a discussion about where we all came from, evolution or creation?

  (or whatever you beleive in of course) every one put down there main reasons, along with reasonable facts and backup as to why.. .

  hopefully this doesnt start to many arguments, lol.. .

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  Vormek 4.20

  Dido,

  hillary_step- how thick can you get, do you think that ONLY royalty go to those schools?

  For the record, my lack of education was at a public boarding school, similar to the ones that royalty go to, so jog on mate

  It doesn't matter what school you attended. George W. Bush attended Yale. John Fenn also attended Yale. Fenn won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2002. Should Bush have the same opportunity to teach chemistry on the basis that he attended the same school as a Nobel Laureate? Or perhaps you'd go to a random Harvard business grad for surgery on the basis that they attended an institution that also has a top medical school?