Quote: chipolata @ August 22 2011, 3:23 PM BSTAnd we've already established that beer is horrible tasting muck.
Pansy.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 515
Sorry folks, but you know me, I couldn't resist throwing a spanner into the works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJTbWF1-lg&feature=related
Quote: Westcountryman @ August 22 2011, 12:22 AM BSTWhy is it significant?
Of course the fact people have been to the Moon is significant and a great achivement. As were stone tools and Macbeth.
Quote: catskillz @ August 22 2011, 4:03 PM BSTSorry folks, but you know me, I couldn't resist throwing a spanner into the works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJTbWF1-lg&feature=related
Oh do catch up it's much more fashionable to claim Queen Elizabeth was Shakespeare who was also an alien space lizard.
Fashionable if your a history ignorant ignoramous.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ August 22 2011, 3:53 PM BSTPansy.
Only in your dreams, Pube Chin. *strokes manly naked jaw*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-14613257
I saw this and couldn't help thinking of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvm6mN-LSbE
Quote: Nogget @ August 22 2011, 3:47 PM BSTIf we don't work out how to live offworld by the time this Earth ends (which is inevitable), we'll lose all the beer and all knowledge of Shakespeare. That's what makes space exploration so overwhelmingly significant.
Unless we muck it up too badly, Earth/Terra has a long time to live yet and based on previous extinctions will probably outlast humankind.
However it would be nice to get off this ball of iron and start colonising other planets in the hope that extinction on Earth might be conter-manded by humans living on other planets.
Since the most likely ends of Earth are either a massive collision with an extra-solar object or our Sun going Nova or towards Nova, it might be best if those colonised planets are in an alternative solar system. However end of earth is not the most likely extinction factor; that would be disease, massive climate change or the rise of a new hostile species ($) better suited to live on Earth.
($) The mindless Chav race ??
Quote: billwill @ August 22 2011, 8:08 PM BSTUnless we muck it up too badly, Earth/Terra has a long time to live
Overpopulation is probably a more likely issue. You've got to shove all those extra people somewhere eventually.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ August 22 2011, 8:15 PM BSTOverpopulation is probably a more likely issue. You've got to shove all those extra people somewhere eventually.
Colonization is no answer to the overpopulation problem; we simply cannot export 93 million people per annum and the annual increase in world population is at least that, possibly more now.
Overpopulation won't cause extinction, just massive reduction in population numbers by war, disease & starvation. There will be enough left after that for mediaeval culture living.
Maybe Torchwood Miracle Day has the solution to over population
Quote: billwill @ August 22 2011, 8:20 PM BSTColonization is no answer to the overpopulation problem; we simply cannot export 93 million people per annum and the annual increase in world population is at least that, possibly more now.
In the future we'll have those transporter thingies, like on Star Trek; it'll be a piece of piss getting them all off world.
Quote: catskillz @ August 21 2011, 12:52 AM BSTWhen I mentioned the rumour that people like George Lucas know stuff that the average person doesn't, I was thinking of this next link. Remember how at the start of star Wars, it said, "A long time ago...: http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm
I don't suppose anyone made it to the final page of this? It was about the Lucas connection. This is one of the strangest stories you'll find on the web. Scroll halfway down the page to the 3 photos to see what I'm talking about: http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon6.htm
Quote: catskillz @ August 22 2011, 11:20 PM BSTI don't suppose anyone made it to the final page of this? It was about the Lucas connection. This is one of the strangest stories you'll find on the web. Scroll halfway down the page to the 3 photos to see what I'm talking about: http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon6.htm
Sorry Ode Pal, can't be arsed.
Not until you answer my question that is.
You know which one.
Quote: catskillz @ August 20 2011, 2:37 AM BSTI may have to take back evertything I said about the hoax. Skip to 32:42 on this amazing clip, which sheds new light on the Moon-landing. According to this guy, the rumours of it being faked were started by NASA themselves, as a form of disinformation, to distract the public from the real reason they had gone there, which was to visit ruins left behind by former inhabitants: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8621853447866820382&hl=en#
Did you watch this at 32:42? He's saying they DID go.
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