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[quote]Pole Shift: A magnetic pole shift wouldn't destroy earth,...[/quote] Electro magnetic field has done a pretty good job at keeping track of solar winds, some of the UV rays and ozone layer equilibrium -- so far. Pollution helping we might have plenty of CO² stocked into THE fragile Nitrogen balance to trigger a total zap of a spark worth anyone's global warming scares, that's a given. Shift the Iron magma core fast enough, you'd even get tectonic inferno.</

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Aren't the next Olympiads in London? Summer 2012, right?

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True, superb expression of hope by GaryHam. It's a rather optimistic view of Humanity's potential(s). A breath of fresh air against the alarmists, the fools & the freaks. But, i doubt the Bible nor Nostradamus (or any prophecies by whomever for whatever reasons) can predict the future. Cuz, we all read or translate from different perspectives or "agendas". Besides, everyone knows all calendars don't keep tra

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[quote]It looks like just a blank picture -[/quote] Maybe it's your helmet visor. Otherwise, get Adobe Flashplayer 10.

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[quote]Do you wear a helmet all the time in case something falls on your head, too?[/quote] Nope, only when i sat on a motorcycle... but i've played football a few times in High-school too. I intercepted passes and ran down fields to score touch-downs instead of throwing grenades at targets or using semi-automatic rifles to shoot down a black dot 600 yards away. Practicing is simple balastics. Although, locking up clearly in combat is scary unless cloaked in a triple amphibiou

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[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="11" id="2318809"]...time to do something if it ever becomes necessary.[/quote] We simply can't knock it off *precisely* enough to eliminate the probabilities (yes, that's much more than one outcome). Right now, time is estimated as a lucky glimpse in someone's amateurish tiny backyard telescope doing a gambler shot at a theoretical quest for a planet mass-destruction device comin' from space. Necessary? Pffftttt. No contest, we'd hav

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[quote]...and/or fear-mongering posts.[/quote] Better to be aware of the dangers than to sit on our hands doin' nothing about it.

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tazgecko, all it took was a miscalculated reset in the trajectory BY gravity to not only spin the bullet outa control but also to deviate it enough so that it remains in OUR orbital grasp. No computational power can negate Earth's location or weight.

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[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="4" id="2318625"]Well, there are several things we could do, most of them involve detonating things on or near the rock to knock it away from us, or putting some sort of an all-thruster robobtic device on it, that then pushes it away. It only takes a slight varience in direction or speed to make something miss us entirely.[/quote] Both were dismissed years ago for not making a dent in orbital gravity pulls extended by Earth & more importantly, the Sun.<

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[quote who="pseudomelon" reply="5" id="2318740"]You'd be surprised what a few hundred million dollars could do for several humanitarian efforts.[/quote] What good is ANY humanitarian efforts (until or inbetween, as a result of perpetual_consequential neglect justifiable or otherwise) if there would be absolutely nobody left, eventually? yep, invest now; right in third world development, for cash, for profits, fo

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85%+ of communications is filty junk anyway... so why not cell-phoning illegal content while dumping bills into trashcans down the street of anonimity. As soon as your faces get photographed for legal documents, you're bound to have a reputation demolished within minutes. You'd try bothering with privacy concerns, you'd endup paying to secure it from criminals and they still bootleg your lives in dataform, phishing for passwords, spend *your* money to blast repetitive pubs on TeeVee &

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∩ (Insert framed images here) [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

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[quote]probably won't be a new one since the computer voice is dead, if Star Trek is the human body, Roddenberry wife is the heart and brain of the show.[/quote] Wasn't Tribune involved also in Andromeda? Paramount owns distribution rights for a new Star Trek and if they decide to greenlit somethin', they'll certainly find another computer voice-over and it won't be impersonated by a Betazoid actress. RIP, Majel. <

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No, primalzed... my statistical claim was a metaphor or esotheric enough to discard odds. A figure of speech, a poetic justice with tricky words, a chaotic emotion non-scientifically expressed, a flawed logic. Apophis has 1/6250 chance to hit Earth --- now, THAT 's an astronomical value worth nit-picking about if you must.

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Why can't people resist the urge of going off-topic... this is about Jupiter (and other "activities") mopping up stuff in the solar system and not about ANY other threats to humanity.

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[quote who="Primal Zed" reply="20" id="2317672"] Want statistics? I'll give you some; vulnerability outweighs the consequences twice and over rather than once. How exactly are you quantizing vulnerability and consequence? Your statistic makes no sense... (And if you do come back to clarify it, post a source?)[/quote] Vulnerability = Not having the means nor the technology to detect, aim and meet Asteroid X (in 2036, <a href="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/

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The Outer Limits... or the next Star Trek.

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It's all good & nice to try tracking down the probable threats; the problem is more about what we CAN do to react in due time. Want statistics? I'll give you some; vulnerability outweighs the consequences twice and over rather than once. Trick is, we'd stop spending on any research -- indefinitely. But fear not, there's a fairly good chance (flip a coin, 50%!) the Pacific ocean or the Moon would catch *it. Crunching numbers isn't counter m

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AFAIC... locked & ignored & stuff you love in games you hate. Sims(x); real people are much more virtually dumb than they might have thought. So long. [e digicons]:banhammer:[/e]

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Pfffffttt, we're SOOOOO lucky we have a spare barely 80 million miles away! You can prevent & react, but you can't hide an entire planet or its moon from such trajectories. So, say -- the theorized doomsday asteroid (or comet) isn't grabbed by the gravity pull of Jupiter (and other biggies) and heads up straight towards the sun... all we have to do is watch, cross-fingers & calculate some tricky situations. Duh. In the meantime, the lucky observer (such as what

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[quote]Psychology is the study of behaviour, neuroscience is the study of the brain itself. [/quote] Both of which can't estimate the bio-chemistry processing of dreams or sub-conscience factors; thanks to Chimps & Dolphins, we at least know that instinct isn't intelligence though. Brain is continually adaptative, in fact. And there no reason (oops, another key concept) to believe its highly variable components (flows of juicy molecules like blood stream &amp

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[quote]I'd say that posting nonsense four times in a row spread over less than 10 minutes when edits would've easily worked qualifies as disruptive.[/quote] Yeah, of course... even you can't hit the "View edits" button either for each of the 3 supplemental (but still **ACCIDENTAL**) posts from having to click POST REPLY more than once since the refresh paging doesn't acknowledged acquisition of reply #26. Yo takin' me for an idiot? Sooooo, here; SPAM is also ab

Jupiter impact. in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

15 years ago, Shoemaker-Levy rifled up a series of comet debris into the gas giant. Well, seems like it took an amateur astronomer from Australia by the name of Anthony Wesley to tip Nasa or other professionals on July 19th to aim their telescopes at the event. Earth would have been slammed to oblivion, btw. Here's the Hubble " report "!

Reply to Techtree Viewer 1.1.1 Public - Print version in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Yep, same results with the X-Worlds techtree in DA... *** Traceback (most recent call last): File "techviewer.py", line 61, in newfunc File "techviewer.py", line 372, in startSwitchTree KeyError: 'races' ***

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[quote]Also if the game shipped with extra ship styles and portraits so that you could easily customise races - i.e. allow more than one custom race in a game without need for modding.[/quote] THIS, i could have use d .