Poll: The beginning of the end...

[Ironic]

Having read this article on the BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8324954.stm], I find the fact that they're building a biological "Ark" slightly worrying, especially seen as it's coral reefs, which would be the first to go if the seas were to start failing as an ecosytem.

So, does this worry you at all?





[sup]Please read the article before flaming it as a doomsday thread, it really isn't.... more of a general impending threat thread.[/sup]

EDIT: Again, this isn't a mayan prophecy or 2012 thread, i just personally feel that hearing that scientists are realistically approaching freezing species of coral for preservation, looks like a warning sign in itself that we are reaching a point of no return for our planet.

 

[Datalord]

Ok, the whole 2012 doomsday prophecies develop from sources like Mayan or Hebrew numerology, these systems are flawed for multiple reasons, the largest flaw in the two examples is the lack of a placeholder, so 202, 22, 2200 and 2002 are all equal in according to numerology.

there are also some flaws related to multiplication though


Anyway, with the way some people gab on and on, the world may end just because of a global panic.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Hmmm...
I'm in a meh mood, so I don't really care right now, although I really should be caring about the ecosystem and everything else.
meh.

 

[ArcWinter]

The world isn't going to end before I die. So, I don't care, but the article pretty much is cryogenics, which are awesome.

I suggest we freeze coral, the world, then TIME ITSELF.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Thats just taking it way to far. Stpid govements just get drunk/high sometime, they all need to lighten up.. oh look a pun!

 

[danielje]

No, nothing worries me. If people want to believe that the magical end of the world is coming at the magical hands of nature to do magical amounts of damage, then let them.

Truth is though, If the planet gets destroyed, it means nothing, Impacts nothing, affects, effects and detracts nothing from the whole.

This is just relative to the human condition and the fact the fear sells. Fear sells so the sponsors of the BBC like it when they run those articles, they like it when people buy it up, eat it up and regurgitate it a billion times all over the net. It makes them money.

What does it really matter what happens? If I told you that WW3 was just a month away, and in the opening 30 minutes of it three quarters of the human population was going to die, what could you do? We know nothing of the true politics in the world, and the popular opinion of the people is to live and reproduce and over-populate.

The World cannot sustain an infinite amount of people, but the whole of the Universe can, with the helping hands of man of course.

Be hopeful and look to the stars and dream big. If you live with your head in the ground, banking on every single thing to be a sign of the end, then why do anything? Why not just run around ful-filling outrageous wishes?

 

[Legion]

It's an idiotic idea, to put it simply. The world is heating up and certain things will die out, it will then cool down and new species will begin to evolve; it's how the damn thing works. We have had Ice Ages before and we will have them again, maybe humans won't live to see them, maybe not, but humans as a species are too arrogant to think of a world without them anyway.

 

[Ironic]

No, nothing worries me. If people want to believe that the magical end of the world is coming at the magical hands of nature to do magical amounts of damage, then let them.
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Be hopeful and look to the stars and dream big. If you live with your head in the ground, banking on every single thing to be a sign of the end, then why do anything? Why not just run around ful-filling outrageous wishes?

Replacing your post with that image seemed appropriate on a gaming based forum.

I care, because it's relative to the human condition, and i am human. I also have this emotion, that whilst withered and atrophied, still ticks along, called empathy. I can't tell whether your post is sarcastic, or just self conflicting, though. It seems to end on an optimistic note of human spirit whilst simultaneously delivering a package full of "people are ignorant".

Sure, as far as the big picture is concerned, we're drops of water in an endless ocean, but our world is not nearly big enough to contain the whole universe at this present time, because the biggest picture we SHOULD be concerned about, right now, is the human condition, and I am just nearly 17- Whatever happens with the world now, is vastly going to impact my life, and my experience of life coupled with whoever i meet's life, and so yes, I am concerned when scientists start actively collecting a species that is one of the staples of oceanic ecosystems.

 

[Jakkal]

Personally, I don't think the end of the world will be "OMGOMGOMG WW3".
I think that sooner or later there will be a massive financial meltdown that society will never recover from, and set us back about 1000 years technologically.

 

[RetiarySword]

I am worried about the state of our enviroment. I saw a news report on TV talking about how many towns along the Welsh coast will have to be abandonned due to the rising sea level, including my university town (Aberystwyth).

I suppose its good news for the univsersity.. soon the student union will have a seafront view

On a serious note it does scare the shit out of me.

 

[Spaghetti]

This probably doesn't mean the end of the world.

In Norway they have a MASSIVE underground vault filled with the seeds of thousands of plants, everything from corn to fir trees. All just in case the planet gets the finger (cookie for the refrence) and they've been doing it for a long time.

Plus, since the coral reef's are danger of getting wiped out, its like a zoo for bits of coral.