Vergent Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Researchers involved in a new study led by Oxford University have found that between three million and 3.5 million years ago, the diet of our very early ancestors in central Africa is likely to have consisted mainly of tropical grasses and sedges. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121214200916.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Global_Warmer Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Lol. Say goodbye to our big brains. Guess if things go that bad, we really don't need them anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Lol. Say goodbye to our big brains. Guess if things go that bad, we really don't need them anyways. You could melt every ice crystal on earth and humanity will go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastFromTheEast Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 You could melt every ice crystal on earth and humanity will go on. Not for long.... Ravi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Not for long.... Ravi Mammels coexisted during ice free conditions on Antarctica... So, you are wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergent Posted December 15, 2012 Author Share Posted December 15, 2012 Mammels coexisted during ice free conditions on Antarctica... So, you are wrong. Jong, You crack me up. What happened to those mammels(sic)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Jong, You crack me up. What happened to those mammels(sic)? They evolved, died out or were over-hunted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergent Posted December 15, 2012 Author Share Posted December 15, 2012 They evolved, died out or were over-hunted. So how exactly are these Antarctic extinctions proof that man can't go extinct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslkahuna Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Lol. Say goodbye to our big brains. Guess if things go that bad, we really don't need them anyways. Collectively, our brains do not seem to have helped much. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherRusty Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Human intelligence is to the biosphere as is cancer to a human. I'm sure that if a metastasizing, growing tumor could think, it would consider itself to be the greatest thing since sliced bread also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Human intelligence is to the biosphere as is cancer to a human. I'm sure that if a metastasizing, growing tumor could think, it would consider itself to be the greatest thing since sliced bread also. I hope you don't have kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherRusty Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Collectively, our brains do not seem to have helped much. Steve Only in advancing the selfish motivation of own species to the detriment of most everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 I hope you don't have kids. I have a baby girl and he's not wrong. You can't possibly sit there with a straight face and tell me humanity isn't the worst thing that has happened to this planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Only in advancing the selfish motivation of own species to the detriment of most everything else. Everything else eats, sleeps and defecates... no dreams of tomorrow or cares beyond the next meal. Humans are all that matters. Higher sentience > All. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherRusty Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 I hope you don't have kids. Limited myself to just one, and largely for this very reason. Humans as a predator have turned over the pyramid of life 180 degrees. Our predictor species is way over represent on this planet relative to our "prey". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Or Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherRusty Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Everything else eats, sleeps and defecates... no dreams of tomorrow or cares beyond the next meal. Humans are all that matters. Higher sentience > All. The words of a more than slightly biased human. There is nothing more selfish than a cancerous tumor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 The words of a more than slightly biased human. There is nothing more selfish than a cancerous tumor. At least I know the kind of folks I'm dealing with in here. Thanks for making it more clear. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SVT450R Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Humans are a flea on the planets back in long run we can't harm it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergent Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 Jong, you didn't do justice to elephant painting. http://www.exoticworldgifts.com/servlet/Categories?category=Elephant%20Paintings Verg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Jong, you didn't do justice to elephant painting. http://www.exoticwor...phant Paintings Verg I'm impressed. Well, in another million years they will be drilling for oil and then arguing on the internet with each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherRusty Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 At least I know the kind of folks I'm dealing with in here. Thanks for making it more clear. Jon The humor is fun but the issue is not. The kind of folks you are dealing with here take science seriously. Humans have created an ecological disaster on this planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherRusty Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Humans are a flea on the planets back in long run we can't harm it. I would hope you realize we are not speaking of the solid, rocky, metallic body of the Earth. We are speaking of a finely tuned biological system of life and a whole lot of mutual interdependence. The human population explosion and modern technology are in the process of creating a very deleterious disruption within that biological system. The world very well may be experiencing only the 6th major mass extinction event since multi-cellular life has taken hold, due mostly to human pollution, the breaking up of ecosystems and the growing human footprint. We currently are demanding 1.5 times the resource rate at which the Earth can replenish it's natural, renewable resources. Not to mention how we are exhausting the non renewables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslkahuna Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I would hope you realize we are not speaking of the solid, rocky, metallic body of the Earth. We are speaking of a finely tuned biological system of life and a whole lot of mutual interdependence. The human population explosion and modern technology are in the process of creating a very deleterious disruption within that biological system. The world very well may be experiencing only the 6th major mass extinction event since multi-cellular life has taken hold, due mostly to human pollution, the breaking up of ecosystems and the growing human footprint. We currently are demanding 1.5 times the resource rate at which the Earth can replenish it's natural, renewable resources. Not to mention how we are exhausting the non renewables. That we are. The only saving grace in our unrestrained population growth is that when Nature decides to crash the Human population it will be done indiscriminately and I forsee that such a crash will happen. The day we disappear from the Earth will be a day of Joy for those living creatures we leave behind-which I fear won't be many. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Global_Warmer Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I guess it defines on which parameter's are set. I would assume we could drill a hole or find some trenches and set off some Nuclear Devices that could rip the planet to shreds. If not attm. We could probably devise the technolgy in a very short period. We could probably devise biochemical weapons to wipe out 99.9% or all life on Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 That we are. The only saving grace in our unrestrained population growth is that when Nature decides to crash the Human population it will be done indiscriminately and I forsee that such a crash will happen. The day we disappear from the Earth will be a day of Joy for those living creatures we leave behind-which I fear won't be many. Steve Jonger says it doesn't matter because the rest of the creatures can't paint the Sistine Chapel. Never mind the fact that the other 99.999999% of humans can't either. Destroying the planet and not caring because the organisms that may be destroyed aren't as intelligent as humans is evidence to the fact that someone who believes such a thing isn't very intelligent himself. No educated, intelligent being would ever take that stance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SVT450R Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 George Carlin humorous bit below basically sums it up in geological time we are nothing to the planet. http://youtu.be/eScDfYzMEEw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPizz Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Perfect SVT, funny as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherRusty Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Perfect SVT, funny as well George Carlin was great, and that was a very funny skit, but it entirely misrepresents the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PottercountyWXobserver Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I normally like George Carlin, but that skit is just another anti-propaganda piece to help combat the environmental movement. Of course the Earth would regenerate over millions of years and eventually purify itself, but that doesn't mean we should trash our only home for the forseable future. Of course I want a clean planet, who in their right mind wouldn't? It is just another excuse to allow lazy human beings to carelessly pollute the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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