Do you believe in the 2012 Apocalypse?
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We also know more about Outer Space then we do about our own oceans, there could be an intelligent species (unlikely) in them and we would never know...
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ive been thinking, and i think i know why people believe in this. Our culture and species is based on heros saving people from disaster. I know this because how many histories remember normal people doing normal things, in normal lives? Not many. Most of our books and movies are about conflict and sorrow, with a hero to pull them out. We remember washington because he fought a major rebellion and liberated the US from Britain. We remember the Hitler because he killed Thousands. Would we remember them if they had been normal people with normal lives? I dont think so. Our species has nothing going for it except intelligence. We have no claws or fangs or armor shells to help us. We are a misfit species that should have never evolved, but we did and are therefore always worried about our survival, even in a world with no predators to hunt us.
This is just an idea, feel free to dispute it.
This is just an idea, feel free to dispute it.
Que
I wish I was a fish I wish.
To help keep this fact in a better perspective I supply this.
when we say that 99.9999% of species that have ever existed went extinct we really mean two things. Firstly, most 'types' of organism (animal, plant, fungi, whatever) only last a few million years at most before their way of life becomes outmoded as environments shift or competitors appear. However, 'extinction' can also mean evolution into a totally new form. As the old form (species) disappears this is still an extinction as a particular way of life is lost, although there is still a carry over of genetic material.
Zooming out to look at the bigger picture this means that everything living today is the result of an unbroken sequence of ancestors that goes back at least two billion years. You, me and everyone else on this forum are part of a lucky chain of survivors going back countless generations. Many others didn't make it (even very large groups that are abundant in the fossil record such as the dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites, graptolites etc.) and most scientists agree this is more to do with luck than some inherent superiority of modern forms.
From here. http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=556
Que
I wish I was a fish I wish.
Where did you get this idea? I cannot find anything that supports your statement.
Q
I think it is more likely that "The Public" knows more about Space than they do about our oceans.
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Yes, it's gonna happen as predicted. So, everyone send me all your money and I'll keep it safe for your return, when you're reincarnated as sheep...again.
Mark
Mark
well that could be, because you can't plunk a telescope in the water and see much.
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my philosophy is.."why worry"?
it's not like there's much we can do to stop it.
lol
I voted unsure because we do not know when/if the wold will end.
So it could happed in 2012, but it could also happen next week, or it could happen in exactly 5432752.95 years.
My point is we don't know for sure when/if the world will end so that is why I voted unsure.
So it could happed in 2012, but it could also happen next week, or it could happen in exactly 5432752.95 years.
My point is we don't know for sure when/if the world will end so that is why I voted unsure.
