Question about mankind.

[Munjibunga]

OK...I reject this notion for two reasons....

1. I am not a monkey.

2. Love is boundless...not limited to some certain number as defined by some dude who cashes checks for "cracked . com"


Geez, is that what passes for education these days?....no wonder everything's going to pot.

Your ignorance is hanging out. What you mean is:

1. I am not an ape.

But you are.

 

[Munjibunga]

The idea is that we exist within, and are therefore a part, of the universe. The universe is by definition everything we can know to exist.

Also the things we can't know, now or forever.

 

[Munjibunga]

Mankind can accomplish anything with a ball peen, a set of jumper cables, & Black Sabbath.

You also need a samba whistle and a fez, of which I have both.

 

[Unrepresented]

Nothing cited here specifically addressed Munji's thoughts on earth history, rather, the time period of fossil fuel use through to future projections. None of it has addressed the idea that nature itself is a heavy duty bone crusher as evidenced in past cataclysms and as evidenced in the geological and fossil records, therefore your objection is moot.

There's only room for one nihilist on this board, bucko. You're treading heavily on my turf.

 

[Munjibunga]

Save water. Shower with a friend.

... and move to higher ground.

 

[Munjibunga]

Are you familiar with the term "confirmation bias?"

You've had pages of experts on the field cited and then the one who you agree with suddenly is the lone trustworthy expert?

I never said that global warming isn't happening or that we haven't contributed to it or that we shouldn't reduce our carbon footprint and other excesses. I said my personal opinion is that we've passed the tipping point. I also suggested moving to higher ground. I'm at 248 MSL, so I think I'm good until I die.

 

[96tbird]

There's only room for one nihilist on this board, bucko. You're treading heavily on my turf.

Nice marmot.

 

[Unrepresented]

I never said that global warming isn't happening or that we haven't contributed to it or that we shouldn't reduce our carbon footprint and other excesses. I said my personal opinion is that we've passed the tipping point. I also suggested moving to higher ground. I'm at 248 MSL, so I think I'm good until I die.

If you're going to call me out for skimming posts, making broad, often unwarranted speculations about what the author may have meant, and posting inflammatory rhetoric in response to them, I guess you'll just be calling me out a lot.

 

[Munjibunga]

If you're going to call me out for skimming posts, making broad, often unwarranted speculations about what the author may have meant, and posting inflammatory rhetoric in response to them, I guess you'll just be calling me out a lot.

If you think that's inflammatory, your skin is thinner than mine. No, I don't mean I'm sensitive, I mean my skin is thin.

 

[bluesblaster]

how thin is it ? thruuuuuumph .........crash

 

[Unrepresented]

If you think that's inflammatory, your skin is thinner than mine. No, I don't mean I'm sensitive, I mean my skin is thin.

This post is causing new types of ads to appear in my browser.

 

[edpal]

Wait... you guys shower... on purpose?

Around these parts nature provides that every other day on the way to work :-/

Water running downward does not constitute a shower mate - a shower includes running soap up all the cracks and crevices where water wouldn't flow, then moving water uphill into those same areas to get the soap out. Also known as "washing the sack & crack".

Now cuing Parliament "We Got The Funk"

 

[nukes_da_bass]

I don't like to discuss shower etiquette with men- which is why 20 years ago I made a concerted effort to become a good citizen. Mandated prison showers no thanks!

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Water running downward does not constitute a shower mate - a shower includes running soap up all the cracks and crevices where water wouldn't flow, then moving water uphill into those same areas to get the soap out. Also known as "washing the sack & crack".

Now cuing Parliament "We Got The Funk"

Your rain only goes downward?

 

[LiquidMidnight]

I don't like to discuss shower etiquette with men- which is why 20 years ago I made a concerted effort to become a good citizen. Mandated prison showers no thanks!

The biggest anxiety I experienced that summer between 6th grade and 7th grade was entirely focused upon the changing gym situation, specifically, having to take a shower in a big shower room with no stalls after class.

I was quite relieved when it turned out we were not required to shower. In my entire 6 years of junior and senior high, I don't think any of my classmates ever took a shower after gym class.

 

[edpal]

Your rain only goes downward?

Yeah, we have to travel below the equator to rinse.

Just thought I would break up the heaviness occurring in the clouds above.

Munji - I'm looking down on ya bro....870 +/- above sea level. They don't call it Highland just because I live here. Actually named by Scottish immigrants who thought it reminded them of the old country:...they raised a lot of sheep here. Then they imported some women.

I think mankind needs start to abandon the lower-lying areas; alternately, those who stay there need to take on the burden of the risk themselves.

 

[edpal]

I don't like to discuss shower etiquette with men- which is why 20 years ago I made a concerted effort to become a good citizen. Mandated prison showers no thanks!

Look what you got for Christmas 'Nukes - Soap On A Rope!

 

[edpal]

The biggest anxiety I experienced that summer between 6th grade and 7th grade was entirely focused upon the changing gym situation, specifically, having to take a shower in a big shower room with no stalls after class.

Meh, you get used to it. We WERE required to shower, you HAD to get naked and at least stand in the shower area. Our city had only segregated the schools a few years before so much of the shower room banter revolved around curious "gear comparison". One of those times I was really glad to be part Italian.

 

[hbarcat]

Humans post civilization don't survive anywhere that pre-civilization humans did not.

Humans don't naturally survive in scorching deserts without using some kind of post civilization technology to provide a supply of water and relief from heat. Examples: Kuwait City, Kuwait and Death Valley National Park, CA, USA

We don't naturally survive in regions that routinely stay well below freezing for any length of time without using constructed shelters that are sturdy and well insulated and without the expert use of fire - a technology that no other animal has. Example: The Inuit people of the Arctic and the Chukchi people of Eastern Siberia.

Pre-industrial humans never lived in areas that were underwater. Technology has allowed us to pump water from one area to another and build levees to keep the water from returning. Examples: New Orleans, LA, USA and Frisia, Netherlands and Germany.

Humans without civilization cannot possibly live in any kind of concentrations without overwhelming the local food supply. If too many people per acre are present, they begin to starve and the only solution (other than dying in mass numbers) is to import food. For all post civilization cities, this necessarily means modern techniques of mass production and transportation. The larger the city, the more essential this is. Examples: Any city on Earth larger than a few thousand people.



But the more important characterization of our civilization's encroachment into hostile environments is not just our ability to survive there, but as I said, to actually thrive. My main point was that our technology "isolates" us from the negative affects of hostile environments and allows us to live in comfort where our ancestors died in droves and barely scraped by, the result of which is 7 billion humans where a few million existed before.

 

[edpal]

Humans don't naturally survive in scorching deserts without using some kind of post civilization technology to provide a supply of water and relief from heat. Examples: Kuwait City, Kuwait and Death Valley National Park, CA, USA

We don't naturally survive in regions that routinely stay well below freezing for any length of time without using constructed shelters that are sturdy and well insulated and without the expert use of fire - a technology that no other animal has. Example: The Inuit people of the Arctic and the Chukchi people of Eastern Siberia.

Pre-industrial humans never lived in areas that were underwater. Technology has allowed us to pump water from one area to another and build levees to keep the water from returning. Examples: New Orleans, LA, USA and Frisia, Netherlands and Germany.

Humans without civilization cannot possibly live in any kind of concentrations without overwhelming the local food supply. If too many people per acre are present, they begin to starve and the only solution (other than dying in mass numbers) is to import food. For all post civilization cities, this necessarily means modern techniques of mass production and transportation. The larger the city, the more essential this is. Examples: Any city on Earth larger than a few thousand people.

But the more important characterization of our civilization's encroachment into hostile environments is not just our ability to survive there, but as I said, to actually thrive. My main point was that our technology "isolates" us from the negative affects of hostile environments and allows us to live in comfort where our ancestors died in droves and barely scraped by, the result of which is 7 billion humans where a few million existed before.

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