I heard that puppy throwing may be in the summer Olympics.
Wow! That's terrible and it won't be puppy throwing. Its a variation of golf nickname 'GolfSter' the contestants will putt Hamsters for accuracy, and end with the drive for distance.
Actually it wouldn't make a sound.. it would make a vibration.. what we call 'sound' is our brains translating the vibration into something we can utilize.
Some other points to ponder....leap year, or the addition of one day every four years, is done because, the moon is "stealing" rotational energy from earth, slowing down our daily rotation, that's also why we will have no moon in a few million years, it'll have "escaped" into it's own orbit.
Five billion years from now, the galaxy Andromeda, which is steadily moving toward our galaxy, will almost completely fill our sky, our sun will have already gone into it's red giant phase and nothing on earth will be living.
One hundred billion years from now, our galaxy (The Milky Way) will have merged with Andromeda and possibly a few other local galaxies, to create a ball like super-galaxy, if some entity were standing on earth, they would see only a few stars, no galaxies, or planets in the night sky, only this large ball.
One hundred trillion years from now, the last stars burn out. Apart from dimly glowing black holes and any artificial lighting that civilizations have rigged up, the entire visible universe goes black. The remaining local galaxy then collapses into a black hole, then and only then, will no one ever again throw a puppy off a cliff!
Damn. Miter. So well, but dismally spoken. Hopefully my kids will not have to deal with your predictions when the last star burns out just a bit in the future (one hundred trillion years).
Damn.
Maybe I should take out a 500 million year fixed-rate mortgage now while I can, knowing I'll never actually have to pay it off.
Miter, the earth rotation has not enough energy to fling away the moon. It will move out its orbit to about twice the diameter it has now and then earth and moon will be rotationally locked, an earth day will be as long as a moon orbit and earth willl always show the same side to the moon as the moon already does to earth.
That is an alternate theory, one that has some evidence of panning out too, just look at Pluto and it's moon Charon, they are rotationally locked as you describe. There are a couple of things missing in that theory as it pertains to Earth.
One, the massive amount of water here. Two, the fact that the Sun has an 8x greater gravitational pull on the Moon than Earth does, even though we are basically a binary planet system (Earth Moon). This effect is (almost) countered by the closeness of the two bodies. This close proximity creates a "bulge" outward from Earths oceans, imparting momentum to the Moon, kind of like swinging a rope with something heavy on the end, this is what we see as tides, and that "bulge is always just ahead of the Moons orbital location. So as long as the Earth keeps it's water, some day that "rope" will break and then...goodbye Moon!
I guess we'll have to wait and see Bug, we can discuss it then :)
Chaz, sorry didn't mean to bum you out! Don't worry, it'll all be millions of generations from now! Those aren't my predictions, they are the current cosmological theory on the accelerating universe. It's hard to think of an area of intellectual inquiry that has changed more in the past century than cosmology, so I'm sure this is but one of many theories that will come forth in the comming millenia! I do like the idea of a mortgage with those terms!
Sorry to disagree Miter, but acceleration of the moon would happen without a single drop of water on earth, the earth crust itself forms a tidal wave due to the moons pull. Once both bodies are rotationally locked there is no more energy the moon can gain and the energy of the earth rotation is known as is the moons mass.
So unless there is an external disturbance like a mayor asteroid the moon will not get lost.
Neat book out with the same idea I just picked up, The World Without Us - Do other glumbert types read books? I would more if not addicted to internet surfing.
Interesting...there were no big plastic McDonalds, Burger King or Starbucks signs kicking around... they'll last for millenia surely?
When intelligent life finally visits earth and finds great big yellow 'M's, Starbucks and BK signs littering the place they'll assume there were three main tribes that wiped each other out... with their only remaining traces being these signs placed in locations of worship and gathering.
KFC will of course be long gone after an outcry caused by a spate of chicken chucking competitions.
Actually all modern materials will erode away except for all of those plastic water bottles. They are estimated to last "Forever". So when the sun grows large, the only artifact of man to experience it will be the water bottles. Blowing around on a nearly smooth waterless globe, they will melt onto its surface and provide a stunning and colorful glaze.
this segment is pure fantasy. The bible nowhere says that humans will ever disappear. This is a fairy tale for adults. Sadly, the reality of hell is treated as fiction.
No Wait! It's in the Bible. Ludicrous, chapter sixteen second paragraph, And Behold , man will eradicate himself from the face of this world! Yet some of the true believers will be led away to a better world ,,by an Angel. He will set forth to you new rules to live by, He shall pointith and you shall bow ..And he will be known to you as TECHNOVIKING! So let it be said ,So let it be law!!
This is how the world will be after the Holy Hoovering (Christian Rapture). Its Gods way of cleaning the planet of people, and leaving the buildings behind.
120 years after humans disappear, the world finally begins to recover from 'man made' global warming?? i'm so sick of this crap. national geographic should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for promoting such a wildly unfounded theory.
well, i guess we'll have to chalk it up to an 'enlightened' species bent on self-loathing, without much desire for rational thought, and completely deaf to reason.
hey i've got an idea....let's all continue like sheep, believing the backwards hype from the likes of Al Gore, until we've destroyed our economies to the point where there really IS something to worry about! Kyoto all the way! yeah!
now, before you all freak out and start spewing a whole bunch of sloppy statistical jargon at me, read this:
i don't expect an article like this to convert any die-hard-self-loathers to the realm of independent thought, but hopefully some people will be intrigued by the possibility of another side to the argument.
Yes it is true, the climate change data is anything but a solid proof, it actually is rather poor as far as scientific data goes. The time span over which reliable records were taken is rather short and in many cases influences were either neglected or not properly recorded (i.e. change of population in the vicinity of the recording spot). Climate is a chaotic system, so it is hard to predict and hard to make objective observations in a short time span.
But, and this is a really big BUT, how many planets do we have to experiment with? And what will happen if the experiment turns out that there is a climatic change that is accelerating once it goes beyond a certain point? There are quite a few indications that this is a very likely scenario and we are already far down the road to desaster.
So if you want to fuck up the climatic system of a planet then find yourself some planet of your own to try this!
Oh homo erectus ...he wrecked us ... he wrecked us So why did he leave us small brain should have been a select us Oh homo erectus ...he wrecked us ... he wrecked us... should have left that fire alone... stuck with the raw ...and left dark matter in the dark... oh pine for homo erectus when fight or flight didn't need to check a manifest and destiny was timeless
but hush
Sleep tight sweet Aphrodite the post human era will be even better than before! for nature will nurture even more except for the odd meteorite The biggest sound won't be a bite though that may seem a little trite for finite is just time that said good night
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