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PostPosted: 02:00 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

My point was more NASA maybe isn't being deprived of funding - just its projects and the money to fund them are going into a different pot Razz at least some of the time anyway
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PostPosted: 02:00 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is it tin-foil statement, to think that behind closed doors deep in underground military labs around the world technology is 5-10 years ahead of what is out in the open?
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PostPosted: 02:03 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems quite likely regards some technology i'd say. Plenty of things in the past have come about to the public in a similar delayed fashion via military research. Doesn't even mean its some controversial conspiracy IMO - Just seems the inevitable likely outcome with some advancements.
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PostPosted: 05:31 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

On the topic of viruses and bacteria - may become a future threat at some point Razz or maybe more bbc scare-stories.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26387276
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PostPosted: 11:30 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm voting for triffids. They can really mess you up (unless you happened to get whacked by a juvenile specimen as a kid).

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PostPosted: 11:49 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

smegballs wrote:
Is it tin-foil statement, to think that behind closed doors deep in underground military labs around the world technology is 5-10 years ahead of what is out in the open?


Definitely tin foil. Just look at all the problems with development of replacement military gear. The military industrial side can be years ahead in terms of military items, but it won't be ahead in civilian items, actually it's probably about 5 years behind in that area.
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PostPosted: 15:26 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Im-a-Ridah wrote:
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Is it tin-foil statement, to think that behind closed doors deep in underground military labs around the world technology is 5-10 years ahead of what is out in the open?


Definitely tin foil. Just look at all the problems with development of replacement military gear. The military industrial side can be years ahead in terms of military items, but it won't be ahead in civilian items, actually it's probably about 5 years behind in that area.


I'd have thought you'd keep the good shit under wraps until a major (WW3) breaks out.

That said though, in order to be combat effective you need to train, and you can't train that well if all your cool kit needs to stay in a bunker for fear of someone photographing it. Plus 1 or 2 super-cool high tech bits of kit won't win a war for you unless they are something like orbital bombardment technology or something. A couple of impervious laser-shooting rape tanks, might dominate the local area, but won't hold a strategic area alone.

Also you're right, looking at current MOD procurement processes, it's a fucking shambles that almost without fail overruns initial estimates in terms of both time and money.
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PostPosted: 16:42 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 21:23 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
We're not going to become extinct. There are enough of us[*] still living off of the land who will survive just about anything short of a direct impact from Nibiru.

We will have a massive die-back under the following circumstances:

1. Dinosaur killer asteroid impact.
2. Super volcano.
3. Nuke shooting war.
4. Oil and gas properly run out and we belatedly realise that "renewables" are a scam. Then comes the glacial period. Then the morlocks.

[*] If you're reading this, you're not part of that "us".


There is some pretty strong evidence suggesting that an event like the eruption of the Deccan plateau in India may have had a more direct bearing on the final extinction of the dinosaurs. Of course it is possible that a meteorite impact could have contributed (supreme bad luck?).

Such eruptions are also thought to have happened at various other times in the Earth's history. The way the planet works suggests that whilst it retains a certain level of heat/energy, this will always be so.

The Deccan eruptions happened in an unbelievably short geological timespan. Such an event seems to have been the cause of Northern Europe splitting away from Greenland etc, creating the Atlantic ocean.

Convection cells in the planet's mantle are thought to be the mechanism by which this works. A convection cell is currently creating the Hawaiian island chain - as the crust moves over the cell, new islands are created through vulcanism; indeed, the next island after Kilauea is already forming under the ocean surface.

Perhaps more pertinent to the argument of human extinction is the convection cell beneath the Yellowstone national park region in the USA. This it would seem, could be of considerable size. No one seems to know how imminent, if at all, an eruption of the Yellowstone cell might be. But for TOTAL extinction of the human race, my money would be on such an event.
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PostPosted: 22:41 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:
No one seems to know how imminent, if at all, an eruption of the Yellowstone cell might be. But for TOTAL extinction of the human race, my money would be on such an event.
They also discovered recently its even bigger than previously thought Laughing
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131218-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption-magma-reservoir/

Seems that when if it goes boom we're even more stuffed than previously expected Whistle
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PostPosted: 22:49 - 04 Mar 2014    Post subject: Re: How are humans going to become extinct? Reply with quote

-Matt- wrote:
What if anything do people think is a potential threat to humanity?


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PostPosted: 08:38 - 05 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

-Matt- wrote:
They also discovered recently its even bigger than previously thought Laughing
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131218-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption-magma-reservoir/

Seems that when if it goes boom we're even more stuffed than previously expected Whistle


And I'm not sure that Yellowstone is anywhere near on the scale of the Deccan eruptions. I would have to read up on it again, time permitting, but I have a feeling that Yellowstone is a baby by comparison. And is it due to a convection cell - is this different to a "hotspot", or is a hotspot caused by a convection cell?

These cells exist over the entire planet - see the excellent BBC series presented by Aubrey Manning, "Earth Story". Someone with more time on their hands might like to look the subject up to see if there are other areas of potential danger.

Fascinating stuff.
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PostPosted: 12:25 - 05 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm sure I saw a documentary once about the Amazon estuary and it having a massive amount of CO2 stored under it which could be released in one gigantic Earth fart completely and catastrophically unbalancing the weather systems.
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PostPosted: 13:03 - 05 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

smegballs wrote:
Is it tin-foil statement, to think that behind closed doors deep in underground military labs around the world technology is 5-10 years ahead of what is out in the open?


The military themselves use technology that is years ahead of what exists in the public/available to civilians. So it's not tinfoil to think that. Technology in the labs is even further ahead. But its not world ending stuff.
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PostPosted: 22:51 - 05 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

5. Everything they do is done to attract attention, like wearing broader headbands and longer tassels,

Good grief! Cruiser owners!
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PostPosted: 23:11 - 05 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 23:27 - 05 Mar 2014    Post subject: Re: How are humans going to become extinct? Reply with quote

Clanger wrote:
-Matt- wrote:
What if anything do people think is a potential threat to humanity?


Human beings and Mother Nature. Thumbs Up
I think we can narrow that down to Americans if you leave the human bit out, just a thought.
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PostPosted: 23:51 - 05 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dr. Quack wrote:
LOL - Life of Brian (1979)

I understand the parody, problem is, I didn't write it.
It's all fact with parallels drawn between the great philosophers and the major faiths.
And yes, I have spent the last 10 years reading, so give me some credit.


It means nothing. Humans tell each other simerler stories round the world and through the ages. Humans have simerler experiences so it follows they develope simerler ideas. Humans don't live in roughly square boxes with a roof on and a door and windows because some devine architect appeared all round the world and said "though shalt live in houses" they do it because their basic needs are simerler regardless of geographical location.
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PostPosted: 00:20 - 06 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Think it may be right after Bees become extinct?
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PostPosted: 11:26 - 06 Mar 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dr. Quack wrote:
skellingtons?


Lol. Reminds me of Draclia. And Robbing Hood.


Dr. Quack wrote:
inadvertence


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