Humanity

[SGWilko]

Well, lools like nature may well have stepped in to naturally control population numbers;

BBC News - Antibiotics resistance 'as big a risk as terrorism' - medical chief

[Mark]

Species evolve and then they go extinct. There's no reason (at present) to suspect the same fate doesn't await human kind. After a few thousand years all trace of us ever existing will be gone. Left to be dug up as fossils.

[EuroTroll]

Species evolve and then they go extinct. There's no reason (at present) to suspect the same fate doesn't await human kind. After a few thousand years all trace of us ever existing will be gone. Left to be dug up as fossils.

Ah, but what happens to intelligent species? Species that have Playstation. We just don't know.

[Knock-on]

Well, lools like nature may well have stepped in to naturally control population numbers;

BBC News - Antibiotics resistance 'as big a risk as terrorism' - medical chief

What a poor choice he made for his comparrisson. If humans develop complete resistanced to Antibiotics, millions will die each year, no a couple of hundred through terrorism.

We are in an unnaturally calm period in human development. This really is not good for human kind as we get too much growth whereas we need regular culls. As it is, we are hurtleing head first into a global population explosion which will probably end in some sort of disaster.

What really irritates me is the way 'civilised' countries keep pumping aid into the same old famine hit areas year after year. All that happens is that hundreds of thousands of people are kept in famine limbo without being forced to either leave for better areas or die. It strikes me as very cruel to artificially sustain people on a land that cannot provide for them.

[donKey jote]

Well, lools like nature may well have stepped in to naturally control population numbers;

BBC News - Antibiotics resistance 'as big a risk as terrorism' - medical chief

Well, we are part of nature.

[BDunnell]

What a poor choice he made for his comparrisson. If humans develop complete resistanced to Antibiotics, millions will die each year, no a couple of hundred through terrorism.

I would suggest that not wishing to be viewed as scaremongering — even if this is not the case — plays a part in this.

[Mark]

Ah, but what happens to intelligent species? Species that have Playstation. We just don't know.

No, we don't. As far as we know we're unique in species evolved on Earth that we have the capability to travel beyond it, so theoretically we can even survive the sun going red giant. However we are no less subject to evolution as any other species, perhaps more so, modern humans have only been around maybe 100,000 years, i.e. nothing in the scheme of things. Could we be around in 100,000 years, yes probably. 10 million years, maybe, but who knows what we'll look like.

[Bagwan]

OK fellow human beings , here's what I'm currently doing about it .
I'm going off the grid .

Solar power , man .
2.8kw of solar panels powers my new house , and it's dirt cheap to do it right now .

Currently(pun intended) , for that amount of power , it costs about $15,000.00 to get of the grid .
For those in my neighbourhood , with roughly $3,000.00 a year on average electricity bills , it's about a five year payback .
For me , it was a pretty obvious choice because my local provider was going to charge me that much , almost exactly , to bring in power to the house .

I have read that the amount of power coming from the sun in a day is enough to power the planet for a year .

China's Golden Sun incentive project has resulted in cut-price panels flooding the market , bringing solar from $20-25 a watt to what I paid , $3.30 in just a few years .
A friend of mine just got some at $1.76/watt .

My panels are guaranteed for 25 years , and my batteries are guaranteed for 10 .
After those ten years , I expect to be able to buy lithium batteries , if I can't keep my lead acid ones alive .

Of course , I still drive there using fossil fuel , but I hope to move towards electric transportation at some point , charging it off the panels as well some day .

The economics of the idea are eminently do-able right now , but you won't have the oil guys saying so .

[Rudy Tamasz]

OK fellow human beings

How do you know we all are human beings? We speak a human language and can type and sometimes we behave like, well, human beings, but is this a proof strong enough?

[EuroTroll]

How do you know we all are human beings? We speak a human language and can type and sometimes we behave like, well, human beings, but is this a proof strong enough?

Is there something you want to tell us, Rudy?