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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:18 PM Original message |
If people should all vanish, die out etc., how long would it take |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. Just a moment of geological time. n/t |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 06:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. You're exactly right. In the Museum of Natural History in NYC, I recall |
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w13rd0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. We've created a lot of waste... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. Don't plan on it as long as there is some sustainable place |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. 100 years maybe? |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
5. A human dieout would be terribly damaging in the short term. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Wir werden Venus. |
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Totallybushed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
7. My guess would be about 100 years |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. It'd be a pretty boring place, though. |
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Jeroen (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
23. I don’t think monkeys or dolphins subscribe to that point of view ;-) |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:27 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. I don't care what they think. I'm not one of them. We humans have every |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. 1/2 life of depleted uranium? |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
31. Depleted Uranium is a *NON-FACTOR*. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
10. kirtland's warbler would be extinct the very next year |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 06:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. I dunno about all that |
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Freedom_Aflaim (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
11. What does it matter? |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 06:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. many sentient species other than humans |
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Freedom_Aflaim (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 06:12 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Crows? |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. i accept that you don't know what sentient means |
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Freedom_Aflaim (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:30 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Excellent |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. What other planet has even a microbe on it? |
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Freedom_Aflaim (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Strong Evidence suggests that Mars may |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:28 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. That's nonsense |
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Freedom_Aflaim (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:35 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. No that would be a huge find. Hardly worthless |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. Great Zen question |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
15. Something interesting I read in a science magazine a year or |
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Johnny Noshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 06:37 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. It was only a game but... |
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Freedom_Aflaim (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:36 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. That was a fun game |
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bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
18. The earth is in the process |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
19. If the purpose of the earth is just to grow stuff... |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 09:05 PM Response to Reply #19 |
33. I think they are out there. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
22. I think 90% of the disturbance would be fixed within 20 years |
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savemefromdumbya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-30-06 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
32. thousands of years |
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