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So, how long until we can leave this shithole of a planet?
I wouldn't leave. I love Earth. I wouldn't live anywhere else if given the choice.
Now we just need to work on colonization of the other terrestrial planets and we'd be good to go. Visiting a terraformed Mars and going to the beach, or tanning on Mercury with a cold soda chilled with ice from Europa (which isn't a planet, but whatever).
Visiting a terraformed Mars and going to the beach,
Right. Mankind invents something to go places they've never seen before and what's the first thing to think of? Changing them.
I'd want to see Neptune...
It's mostly hydrogen and helium, with generous helpings of methane and ammonia.
So it's essentially a big and dense ball of farty bleach, but with a very storm-laden surface.
You wouldn't be missing much if you avoided it.
Right. Mankind invents something to go places they've never seen before and what's the first thing to think of? Changing them.
We've seen Mars plenty of times. Humanity has been sending spacecraft there since the early 60's (though of course not all of the missions have been successes). As far as non-Earth planets go, we know more about Mars than any other, and by a fairly wide margin. It's not like we know nothing of the planet and are doing some kind of harm to the surface or killing off wildlife.
And if humanity ever plans on visiting those other planets in person, they HAVE to be changed. Every single other planet in the solar system would kill us with a toxic atmosphere or deadly surface temperatures (though almost always both).
It's mostly hydrogen and helium, with generous helpings of methane and ammonia.
So it's essentially a big and dense ball of farty bleach, but with a very storm-laden surface.
You wouldn't be missing much if you avoided it.
We've seen Mars plenty of times. <...> It's not like we know nothing of Mars and would be tourists.
You would be a tourist. And that somebody was there doesn't mean we need to terraform it to make it look like Florida.
But...... Storms are cool.
But they're storms of fart-bleach. The worst and least-cool kind of storm.
You would be a tourist. And that somebody was there doesn't mean we need to terraform it to make it look like Florida.
I meant the stereotypical ignorant tourist who just walks around taking photos of everything they see because "ooh, foreign!". Regardless, my point is that we know a lot about Mars. We wouldn't be some uneducated late-middle-age couple on vacation in Europe during their mid-life crisis, desperately clinging on to the last bit of youth they have.
And like I said, if humanity ever goes to Mars in person and wants to walk on the surface of the planet, it will HAVE to be terraformed. The atmosphere is highly toxic (more than 95% CO2, and less than 2% nitrogen and oxygen, as compared to Earth's 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen), and Mars lacks a magnetosphere. Not to mention that the Martian surface is freezing cold, much colder than most places on Earth on average (though Martian summers are more or less habitable during the day, temperature-wise).
I have no desire to discuss science with you.
Why not? Science is fun and exciting. Especially so for fields of theoretical physics.
I pointed out that we've destroyed enough on Earth, we might refrain from doing it to other places too. Yes, this might include not to live there.
If we ever reach the level of technology that allows us to terraform other planets, things like environmental destruction and pollution will cease to be problems. Killing off local flora and fauna would still be a problem (though not for Mars, since there are no plants or animals native to Mars other than organic compounds and bacteria found in the soil and on rocks), but "destruction" (which is hard to discern when you put it so vaguely) wouldn't be much of an issue, because we would be at a point that would allow us to just change it again and reverse the damage.
Assuming we don't, like, crack the planet in half or something.
I have no desire to discuss science with you.
I pointed out that we've destroyed enough on Earth, we might refrain from doing it to other places too. Yes, this might include not to live there.
I think we're not aiming high enough. Why stop halfway? I say destroy everything. Who do these "future generations" think they are, anyway?
Right.
All life on Earth will die when the sun burns out, might as well make the most of it.
Right.
All life on Earth will die when the sun burns out, might as well make the most of it.
It was clearly's Varric's face, even cut half out. Like it's clearly Varric's necklace, so it is obviously a tethraghast picture. Like, if there is a picture of Cass wearing Cullen's cloak, it's obviously a Cass/Cullen shipping picture, even if Cucu isn't physically there. I mean, I could post a pic of Cass and Fjalar with Fjal's face half cut but it he would still be recognizable by everyone here.
But I'm not touching that subject again, even with a 11 feet-long pole.
Meh, I have seen my favourite characters shipped with their brothers ect. So I just don't see anything that is minority obscure as a big deal. Now if it was something like ecchi, or the stuff not-a-templar does: then i could see a problem.
To me they look ridiculous, hence not cool. I don't need complete realism, but beautiful and functional weaponry and armor...
I find the ease in which some characters wield basic weaponry to be stupid(aka not the heavily trained skilled ones like cass obvs). If you're average or basic swordweilder, seriously wounded, and can still hold a sword then that is unrealistic s. At least fantasy weapons you know they are just that, fantasy.
I mean the elf inquisitor holding the inquisitor sword, was so ridicules.
JK Rowling banks on school children or more so their middle aged mothers to simply buy for vouge. Leo Tolstoy, and Ian Mcewan are masters of character devlopmenat, yet I'd bet that Harry Potter alone, has outsold them both. Few people read the classics, so that puts Tolstoy in the gutter, and Mcewan is destined to become a classic novelist...
I loathe that series, it is the exact same pattern over and over again for almost the entire series. Harry goes to howgwarts fights the big bad, and then leaves howgwarts and goes home for the summer. And in the next book it repeats...
Since people have mentioned literature and Harry Potter...
Whenever I see someone mention "the classics" in regards to books and literature, it makes me want to blow my brains out for having heard such inanity.
"The classics" are some of the most overblown, archaic, and boring pieces of literature I've ever read. I'd gladly read Harry Potter over War and Peace, just like how I'll always ask for Metro 2033 before I even entertain the idea of reading Pride and Prejudice ever again.
I get that people have tastes, and of course opinions are opinions, but I've not met a single person who is a fan of "the classics" who wasn't an uppity "look at me I'm so cultured and well-read! Let me twirl my monocle while condescending down to you from yonder hill!" snob who couldn't tell his foot from his ***hole.
I have a lot of respect for Leo Tolstoy and Shakespeare as authors and as people and will be the first to acknowledge their contribution to the world through their novels and stage plays, but I almost resent them for being made to read their work for 4 years in a row in high school. No 16 or 17 year old gives half a **** about Romeo and Juliet, or The Great Gatsby (which actually isn't a bad story, but seriously, nobody cares to read it in school), or The Scarlet Letter.
Those "great" novels offer a glimpse into life during the era they were written, and for that I'm glad they exist, but god, they are (generally) a chore to go through with the archaic language and presentation, and as a general rule I detest the people who go on about them and prop them up on a pedestal while sneering at any kind of modern literature or media. They were groundbreaking for their day, but they aren't anymore. Like, at all.
Give me Metro, Watchmen, a collection of Fables comics, 11/22/63 (the Stephen King novel), or Roadside Picnic over Othello, Gone With The Wind, or Anna Karenina any day.
Since people have mentioned literature and Harry Potter...
Whenever I see someone mention "the classics" in regards to books and literature, it makes me want to blow my brains out for having heard such inanity.
"The classics" are some of the most overblown, archaic, and boring pieces of literature I've ever read. I'd gladly read Harry Potter over War and Peace, just like how I'll always ask for Metro 2033 before I even entertain the idea of reading Pride and Prejudice ever again.
I get that people have tastes, and of course opinions are opinions, but I've not met a single person who is a fan of "the classics" who wasn't an uppity "look at me I'm so cultured and well-read! Let me twirl my monocle while condescending down to you from yonder hill!" snob who couldn't tell his foot from his ***hole.
I have a lot of respect for Leo Tolstoy and Shakespeare as authors and as people and will be the first to acknowledge their contribution to the world through their novels and stage plays, but I almost resent them for being made to read their work for 4 years in a row in high school. No 16 or 17 year old gives half a **** about Romeo and Juliet, or The Great Gatsby (which actually isn't a bad story, but seriously, nobody cares to read it in school), or The Scarlet Letter.
Those "great" novels offer a glimpse into life during the era they were written, and for that I'm glad they exist, but god, they are (generally) a chore to go through with the archaic language and presentation, and as a general rule I detest the people who go on about them and prop them up on a pedestal while sneering at any kind of modern literature or media. They were groundbreaking for their day, but they aren't anymore. Like, at all.
Give me Metro, Watchmen, a collection of Fables comics, 11/22/63 (the Stephen King novel), or Roadside Picnic over Othello, Gone With The Wind, or Anna Karenina any day.
Ahh, to be young, and filled with high school angst again.
I like Pride and Prejudice.....
Read it about 10 times now.
Mr daarcy!
Mr daarcy!
Is smoking hot and I would bang him in an instant!
Dat pond, and dat wet shirt..
Dat pond, and dat wet shirt..
I'd kill to read the books I had to read in high school again. The **** we read now is SO much worse.
Why not? Science is fun and exciting. Especially so for fields of theoretical physics.
Because there's nothing you could teach me about astronomy or theoretical physics, which renders any discussion with you a pointless. But you feel free to go on debating on your own.
Exactly. We'll show that sun a thing or two. We'll wreck the
Earthcelestrial bodies so bad that thepossiblesupernova will be a sweet release from our merciless grip.
Man, you started out so well pointing out how we should aim high and then you spoil it all with the very next post. But don't fret, I fixed it for you.
Meh, I have seen my favourite characters shipped with their brothers ect. So I just don't see anything that is minority obscure as a big deal. Now if it was something like ecchi, or the stuff not-a-templar does: then i could see a problem.
Well I was taught to pay attention to obscure minor details as part of my studies. Not that it makes me any better at Where's Wally, but it's another story.
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