OT: What is the biggest

Atrocities · #1 March 31st, 2004, 05:49 AM

No more new "Good and Original" PC games.

dogscoff · #2 March 31st, 2004, 08:44 AM

I also read a few years ago about how the Cubans were working on turning sugar cane into a substitute for oil-based fuels. ANyone know about that?

They were also using it to make super glue and about a zillion other things they couldn't import due to sanctions, IIRC.

Slick · #3 April 9th, 2004, 02:51 AM

Thought this might be interesting to a few:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/0...eut/index.html

Slick.

Grandpa Kim · #4 April 9th, 2004, 04:23 AM

Atrocities hit the nail on the head right off: Overpopulation!

If we had only 1 billion on the planet instead of 7 billion, 95% of the problems mentioned would disappear. There's a trade off of course. Fewer geniuses, fewer inovations and discoveries; you can't have it all!

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I don't understand why Atrocities thinks that loss of open wilderness for hunting or moto-cross is any indicator of a 'big threat' to mankind in general.

It's not a threat it's a symptom. Of both overpopulation and erosion of freedom.

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Statistically, the faster you drive the less chance you have to hit someone at a blind intersection

Yeah, but you go through more intersections that way. It balances out.

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Someone is going to sing the ultimate sad country song and everyone suicides?

I won't listen!! La la la la la... I'm not listening!

Unfortunately I have no faith in the human race to do the right thing. We will dig our own grave then whine when we struggle to clamber out again. But when we rise again, we will have fewer resources to work with so we will be forced to do it better next time. This may be the only way the human race can continue evolving.

Atrocities · #5 April 9th, 2004, 04:36 AM

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Atrocities hit the nail on the head right off: Overpopulation!

If we had only 1 billion on the planet instead of 7 billion, 95% of the problems mentioned would disappear. There's a trade off of course. Fewer geniuses, fewer inovations and discoveries; you can't have it all!

quote: I don't understand why Atrocities thinks that loss of open wilderness for hunting or moto-cross is any indicator of a 'big threat' to mankind in general.

It's not a threat it's a symptom. Of both overpopulation and erosion of freedom.

well said Grandpa Kim.

tesco samoa · #6 April 9th, 2004, 04:46 AM

at least there will be beer.

ummm.... yea

Atrocities · #7 April 9th, 2004, 04:58 AM

And more beer to go around.