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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Today many take trips down the Nile to visit the pyramids. Others visit the Coliseum in Rome - Just two of the many available to us. Just what do our descendants have to look forward to? Goodbye ancient treasures |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
They can look forward to the sun burning out leaving Earth cold, dark and lifeless. |
dancer42 Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 455 Credit: 2,422,890 RAC: 1 |
They can look forward to the sun burning out leaving Earth cold, dark and lifeless. yes in a few billion years maybe, but to more immediate concerns they will have what we can protect. so what does that mean? it means that they will have whatever we are successful at, trying won't count. so what does that mean.well if you do not understand a thing it is impossible to tell if it even needs fixing, much less how do we go about fixing it. in the case of weather it would seem silly to me to be discussing the genetic manipulation of crops to fix global warming when we can't predict the weather 1 week out locally with any certainty yet governments are discussing this as we speak. so we need to do what we know how to do well and things like weather that we do not yet have a handle on we need to learn and for problem x that hasn't come up yet we need to watch for. can we do this and leave our children a better world yes ,will we is still opened for debate you tell me. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
The sun will incinerate the Earth long before it burns out. |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
We don't build many monuments that will last for thousands of years like the pyramids have, maybe not any. But since the planet is continually changing, albeit very slowly even the pyramids will eventually disappear long before the planet becomes uninhabitable, either through natural causes or our devices. Sure the environment is changing, partially due to our uncaring behavior but humans will adapt. Our descendants probably won't live much longer in many of the coastal cities around the globe but they will build new ones in better locations with better built infrastructure. That is if we don't wipe out mankind through war or some biological mistake. One monument in north america that will probably be here for a while is the carving on Mt. Rushmore, but it too will eventually crumble and fall, evidence that nothing lasts forever. It is the nature of things to eventually fall apart. I think it is called entropy. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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