Can we see the end of life on Earth?

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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    mookeywrench wrote:
    The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. The sun goes into its red giant stage in 5 billion years. So we're about halfway there
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    BINGO!!!
    It is all going to come to an end some day... and we will have become long extinct before it happens.
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    The irony of the great history of Mankind will most likely be the painting we left in caves in the Mesolithic Age. Nature will have wiped clean all of our markings... and all written and recorded history of our existance will be non-existant.
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    So... in the meantime... hoist a glass of ale in the air and raise a cheer to the here and now with your friends and lovers... 'cause in reality... that is the only real thing we have in life.
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    P.S. GO KINGS!!!
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,764
    Cosmo wrote:
    mookeywrench wrote:
    The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. The sun goes into its red giant stage in 5 billion years. So we're about halfway there
    ...
    BINGO!!!
    It is all going to come to an end some day... and we will have become long extinct before it happens.
    ...
    The irony of the great history of Mankind will most likely be the painting we left in caves in the Mesolithic Age. Nature will have wiped clean all of our markings... and all written and recorded history of our existance will be non-existant.
    ...
    So... in the meantime... hoist a glass of ale in the air and raise a cheer to the here and now with your friends and lovers... 'cause in reality... that is the only real thing we have in life.
    ...
    P.S. GO KINGS!!!

    Well said, Cosmo. Cheers!

    I think in was in Alan Weisman's book The World Without Us that I read one of the last human made artifacts to go will be anything made of bronze. That and the cave paintings. Future visitors will think this place was inhabited by creatures that had a thing for ungulates and heavy metal. :D
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Cosmo wrote:
    So... in the meantime... hoist a glass of ale in the air and raise a cheer to the here and now with your friends and lovers... 'cause in reality... that is the only real thing we have in life.
    ...
    P.S. GO KINGS!!!
    Mmm fuckin hmmm, Cosmo.

    Jeanwah recently said something similar to this that I liked too, that resonated in the best and simplest sense.

    L'chaim! :P
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    i cant see it... but then again, im not looking. 8-)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    I say the world ends on Dec 31st. But it begins again when I go out and buy a new calendar. My guess is the mayans just one day said "hey, why are we still counting? who gives a shit?".
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    the earth can end at any time from any circumstance that we probably wouldn't even be able to fathom. as long as I'm hugging my daughters and my wife when it happens, so be it.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,764
    This is a very cool thread because the answers are all over the place and all of them are at least interesting if not down right thought provoking. One thing for sure- we live in phenomenal times- certainly not your everyday run-of-the-mill place in human history. For me the big thing is making it go on longer so at least a few more generations get to experience life as a cognitive species. There will be plenty of time left for other species that follow after.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Cosmo wrote:

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    So... in the meantime... hoist a glass of ale in the air and raise a cheer to the here and now with your friends and lovers... 'cause in reality... that is the only real thing we have in life.
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    CHEERS!! :D

    Happy Solstice everyone, longest day of the year!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,764
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Cosmo wrote:

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    So... in the meantime... hoist a glass of ale in the air and raise a cheer to the here and now with your friends and lovers... 'cause in reality... that is the only real thing we have in life.
    ...

    CHEERS!! :D

    Happy Solstice everyone, longest day of the year!

    Happy Solstice, Jeanwah and everyone! A good natural holiday to celebrate. :D
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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