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14 Dec 2008, 10:38 pm

it's always the end of the world as we know it; the world is dynamic, no matter how static we'd like it to be...;)



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15 Dec 2008, 1:43 am

Social_Fantom wrote:
I think we humans do actually have the power to end the world but not because of what we are doing. Think about it, all that some of us would have to do is push a few buttons that launch these things called nuclear weapons and poof, the end of the world in a matter of moments.


Highly unlikly that we can use them to propel every single atom so fast away from each other that they escape the pull of gravity and in doing so destroy the earth



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15 Dec 2008, 2:48 am

The_Cucumber wrote:
The end of the world is often used in place of "the end of the world as we know it", which any global event, even a positive one, could potentially cause.

As for actually ending the world, humanity does indeed have the power to render the planet uninhabitable, but we'd have to do it intentionally. And even then the Earth would still be there, it just wouldn't be the Earth we've come to know.


then they should say it



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15 Dec 2008, 3:43 am

Just saw the day the earth stood still, wasn't bad, compared to the other crap put out this year. I did download it off a torrent site, and you know what, I am going to pay the money to see it an the theater, it was that good.



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15 Dec 2008, 5:43 am

Social_Fantom wrote:
I think we humans do actually have the power to end the world but not because of what we are doing. Think about it, all that some of us would have to do is push a few buttons that launch these things called nuclear weapons and poof, the end of the world in a matter of moments.


Since the Trinity test, there have been around two thousand nuclear weapons tests, although only a fraction (about a quarter) of those were atmospheric tests. There are about twenty thousand nukes sitting around at the moment, which is a depressingly high number, although lower than it has been (nukes have a shelf life due to the decay of the radioactive material inside.) So far as I know, noone has actually been insane enough to build "seeded" bombs, bombs which are specifically designed to cause as much radioactive fallout as possible. Mass use of nukes would certainly wreck civilisation, but I doubt it'd bring the end of the world. It might even do the world a favour, as the explosions could kick up a load of dust into the atmosphere and cause global cooling by reflecting sunlight (this happens after major volcanic eruptions).


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15 Dec 2008, 5:52 am

Seen the new version of the film, quite good despite Keanu Reeves' non-acting, you know, lots of blankly staring into space when people talk to him much as he did in the Matrix films. Wonder if he has AS.


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15 Dec 2008, 6:00 am

Well their are some roumers that He will play Spike Speagle in the live action adaption of Cowboy Bebop, Spike at times just stares into nothing, but I would think that people would say that it is the end of the world if he did that part, thinking he couldnt pull it off.


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15 Dec 2008, 5:47 pm

so i need to have seen the movie to have this view? I allways had it


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16 Dec 2008, 11:33 am

anna-banana wrote:
the world will end when I die.


Perhaps not, but these boards will ! !!


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