Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130415204132/@comment-6078851-20130423015612

i totally agree that we're at the best possible juncture to break the cycle, i was just saying that it may be a perpetuation of the cycle. i will try to see amazing discoveries at some point as it's obviously left an impression. as for what the elite are planning - i don't doubt for a second that for as bad as things might be, they will get far worse, and when everyone tries to take down the governments and corporations there will be another global war. given the level of our weapons technology another world war could easily be the last thing humans do.

when i say 'get off this rock' i don't mean "the planet's broken lets bail" (although we are in the process of breaking it). i agree that nature will heal. i see the worlds ecosphere as a closed system that can, and does, regulate pollution - within limits, so we do need to cut down on pollutants quite a ways first. i was partly referring to apofis but there's far more 'near earth objects' than most people think, quite a few of them are large enough to cause massive global damage, and they only need a little nudge at the right (wrong) time to put them in a collision orbit, this doesn't include the multitude of 'planet killers' in the asteroid belt though, that can also be nudged into a collision orbit. to add to that is the fact that we've mapped a miniscule portion of our solar system (i think it's something like 1%) and there's far more objects that we have no idea where they might end up (until we have found them though this is merely speculative). however, even in the best case scenario and nothing hits, this planets lifespan is only another 2 billion years (granted it's a long time, but not on the universe's scale and i would love humans to still be around then, hopefully with a truly civilised system-spanning civilisation) when it'll be evaporated by the sun.

when i say 'get off this rock' i mean we have people willing to go on a one way trip to mars, right now, and the technology to start the long process of terraforming mars' atmosphere into a breathable and life sustaining one, i think there was an estimate that mars could have a breathable atmosphere within 100 years, but that could just be wishful thinking. at the very least there ought to be a shuttle program to replace the program that was recently retired, but as far as i know there isn't anything planned to replace them, other than people saying "we're going to replace them". a part of me died when the shuttle program died :(

but earth is 'just a rock' (so that makes mars 'rockier'), well it's mostly rock - 90% or so, molten and chilled, but i'm just being pedantic :)

i wouldn't say 'that there is no force in the universe more resilient than nature' though, i'd say 'there is no force in the universe more tenacious than nature'. to quote everyones favourite 'terrible lizzard' movie "life finds a way".