Posted by alexandra_k2 on December 17, 2005, at 19:21:45
In reply to Re: A colossal sized umbrella » alexandra_k2, posted by Larry Hoover on December 17, 2005, at 10:52:31
> About the umbrella....I'd sure hate to live where the stuff what was on the umbrella came sliding off to. You ever had someone give you a soaking with their umbrella runoff? Imagine a city's worth of snow.
well you could put one around NZ and the run off could run off into the ocean. i guess they would need to be continent sized umbrellas :-)
> > i think they need a really big fan and then they could just turn it on and blow those clouds away :-)
> Except mass increases as the cube of size, so to increase length by some increment, width and depth must go too.Eh? Do you mean to say you would need a great jolly big one?
> The ozone layer thing seems to be fixing itself, as these things tend to do.
Hmm... Well... Tell it to the peoples living (almost) under the hole (thats me) we have the lowest burn times and the radiation is pretty fierce :-( highest skin cancer rates in the world :-( (cough, hack)
> > whether we will build big tall buildings
> > whether we will start building them under the ground.
> That's the most reasonable thing to do, given the temperature stabilizing qualities of soil. And rock, for that matter.Ah, I didn't know that :-)
Other peoples think its a bad idea 'cause of earthquakes. But up in the air ain't so grand for earthquakes either ;-)> What would you do with the stuff you dug up making the holes you'd need?
Why you would make yourself a mountain or a small island :-)
:-P
> I think we'll be humbled by the tiniest of God's creation, the virus. Population won't continue to increase exponentially.Hmm. I reckon we will probably nuke each other...
> > i wonder if people will figure out a way to survive when the sun goes out.
> Well, that's a ways off, you know. If all time since the big bang was condensed to a 24 hour period, I think mammals (they came around with the dinosaurs) are in the last four minutes. Modern man, the last 4 seconds? Something like that.
> Continuing with that same clock, the sun goes out, I'm really not sure if it's 20 hours or 30 hours from now. Dinosaurs four minutes ago. Sun dies 20 hours from now.
> I think you're giving new meaning to worrying about future events. ;-):-)
I'm good at worrying :-)
> > could we make enough energy to keep us warm?
> No problem there. E = mc˛Hmm. That looks familiar... energy = mass... something about acceleration???
> And besides, before the sun goes out, it will expand. We'll be inside the sun long before it gets too cool for our liking.Oh.
Well then... So we need to find a planet thats a bit further away?
Which planet do you think we should live on Larry Hoover?> They've actually almost got synthetic meat figured out. Cell culture from muscle cells. No need to slice it. It forms in sheets. I can hardly wait to try some. <sarcasm>
mmm.
well... no animals were harmed in the growing of this meat... i suppose... it would sorta count as vegetarian?!> You think with your hands? How, uhhhh, unuuuusual.
You watch out or I'll show you what else these hands are good for ;-)
<grumble grumble>
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