If ISIS or for that matter Iran got hold of a nuclear weapon humans could be wiped out quickly. Can't rule out Putin either.
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[Politics] Harbingers of Doom?
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Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
I don’t think they would. They’d fire it at New York or somewhere and would kill a few million people. The Yanks would then return the favour and turn that part of the Middle East to a pile of radioactive dust. I don’t think that situation would wipe out Humans at all.
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Here’s the problem…
they don’t have a missile that would reach America, we are their lap dogs, and within range, yes so is most of Europe but we are a prime message and target to frighten the rest of the world. We’re just a piss ant island that even Europe hates, no big lose, FIFA would be over the moon
dannyboy
tfso!
Youd imagine a lot of potential civilisations starting way before ours and having the tech to reach or communicate with us rather than us searching for them
studio150
Well-known member
I've bookmarked this thread to bring out in 2041 and to post a video which predicts the end in 2083.
No point worrying when you're time is up, it's up.
No point worrying when you're time is up, it's up.
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ISIS is very unlikely to do so - Iran isn’t in the market of getting ‘hold’ of any nuclear weapons I don’t think, they are developing them themselves and are probably very close too - but don’t assume they will initiate anything when they do - it will take Iran years to stockpile enough nuclear weapons to pose a unilateral existential threat to humanity.
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There are 9 Countries with nuclear weapons, including Israel - but only the US and Russia are on trigger alert and the potential for ‘accidental’ launchings with an automatic response is high. From where I am sitting, based on the current conflicts around the world, only the US, Israel and Russia pose the biggest risk of turning any limited tactical nuclear strikes into a spiralling out of control, all out nuclear war - MAD insures that scenario unless one side takes an ‘Alpha’ strike first, obliterating one before the other has the capability to respond.
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Kalimantan Gull
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You're not thinking deeply enough about this. No one is saying that a Trex would have had the brain power, but you really think 130 million years of dinosaur evolution couldn't have developed advanced intelligence?
The fossil evidence would suggest not. They had puny arms and hands as well, so wouldn't have been able to use tools effectively.
Dinosaurs didn't completely die out, birds are supposed to evolved from them. They are also not very intelligent.
Baldseagull
Well-known member
I would imagine they would be far more likely to try and communicate with one of the more advanced civilisations and perhaps the more civil civilisations, rather than one with dozens of different bullshit deities, and groups that want to kill eachother over them.
dannyboy
tfso!
very good point
It would be by dirty bombs.
Then North Korea (new mates of Putin and Iran) are ever increasing the distance of their ICBM’s.
Happy days
sydney
tinky ****in winky
yeah and with Bruce Willis struggling with illness we are probably rooted.
sydney
tinky ****in winky
Iranians i speak to here , and there are a surprising amount , tell me that the Iranian people are increasingly agitated about the state of their government and its agendas , the government does not have the wholesale backing of its population. A few religious lunatics dictating to a nation that has had a taste of freedom and enlightenment and is now being dragged in the wrong direction.It would be by dirty bombs.
Then North Korea (new mates of Putin and Iran) are ever increasing the distance of their ICBM’s.
Happy days
TBF hover cars were never going to take off . . . But the rest of it was perfectly normal
Precisely.
Proxima B is the nearest habitable planet. Roughly 4 light years away. The fastest we have travelled so far is about 40,000 Kmh. The speed of light is approximately 300,000 kilometres per second, which is 18,000,000 Kmh. Divide that by 40,000 and multiply by 4 and we get 1,800 years to reach the nearest habitable planet.
The odds that the nearest habitable planet is inhabited are very small. One can roughly multiply the amount of time needed to reach the nearest planet by the chances of each habitable planet being inhabited. The Drake equation comes up with this: "Only one in a million million (planets) has the right combination of chemicals, temperature, water, days and nights to support planetary life as we know it. This calculation arrives at the estimated figure of 100 million worlds where life has been forged by evolution."". This takes us into the realms of millions of millions of years, flying at 40,000 KMH before we arrived at a habitable planet.
Another way of looking at it is that if the universe is 94 billion (94,000,000,000) miles across, and there are 100 million words with life on them, given that the universe is a sort of disc, its area is pi x (94,000,000,000 squared), and with 100 million inhabited worlds, the average distance between them would be 277,702,857,142,857 miles. Divide that by 40,000 Kmh (24855 miles/h) we get 1,275,447 years.
So if there is life out there it is far too far away for an encounter, unless the nearest inhabited planet reached a point where they could travel at 40,000 KMh, 1.275 million years ago, and worked out where we live and set off in a straight line. It's possible of course, but....
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We can add into this the absolutely enormous amount of luck that would be needed to find intelligent life that coexisted at the same time as us in the 14 billion year life span of the universe so far, and that was able to communicate outside their planet at the same time we can send and receive signals too. It's estimated the earth has held conditions for life for 3.7 billion years. Homo sapiens have existed for such a tiny fraction of that - 0.07% - let alone been able to communicate outside the planet, that we're barely a blip on the timeline.
So finding a planet - or one finding us - where timelines coincide would be beyond lucky.
sydney
tinky ****in winky
i need to lie down..
one of my favourite subjects to be honest , i think its a good 3 or 4 hundred years before we have the tekkers to even think about space colonisation...the 94 B mile figure is open to debate , it could be far bigger , i find it fascinating.
Indeed.
All of this is why I found Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy so delicious when it came out. Blowing up the earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Plans on display at Alpha Centuri for years. Humans can't be arsed to take an interest in local affairs, etc.
That's how we became the apex predator - an ability to imagine beyond our experience. If there are some other silly buggers out there, going through the same pontifications, good luck to them.
You need to get up, first, matei need to lie down..
