tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8032021663606908819.post8789559993782641401..comments2024-01-20T21:17:03.430-05:00Comments on "Sweetness, and Light": "More Bad News"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12914769586760504627noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8032021663606908819.post-28105213636307600522015-07-26T07:11:14.767-04:002015-07-26T07:11:14.767-04:00"Most species don't last more than ten mi..."Most species don't last more than ten mil, tops".<br /><br />I doubt we'll break the one million mark. As for 30 mil. I meant that the scars humans will leave behind on the earth will be most if not totally gone by then.<br /><br />Oh sure if you knew what you were looking for you might find a ceramic doodad here, and there. Also though the half-life of most of the radio-active materials we fooled around with will have cooled off. There are some artificial exotic materials with half-lives that border the hundred million mark.<br /><br />If you were an Exo-Archaeolgist say 60,000,000 years from now. That, and your dig was in the neighborhood of a former Laurence Livermore site. You'd be surprised, and intrigued at the radiation readings you were getting.<br /><br />The source is clearly artificial, and has been in this deposit for tens of millions of years. Like the Voyagers sailing out to the stars this find would say there was a very very ancient intelligent species that once lived on this world.<br /><br />That would be our "First Contact".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12914769586760504627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8032021663606908819.post-53214905592609689392015-07-26T07:09:20.583-04:002015-07-26T07:09:20.583-04:00"Most species don't last more than ten mi..."Most species don't last more than ten mil, tops".<br /><br />I doubt we'll break the one million mark. As for 30 mil. I meant that the scars humans will leave behind on the earth will be most if not totally gone by then.<br /><br />Oh sure if you knew what you were looking for you might find a ceramic doodad here, and there. Also though the half-life of most of the radio-active materials we fooled around with will have cooled off. There are some artificial exotic materials with half-lives that border the hundred million mark.<br /><br />If you were Exo-Archaeolgist say 60,000,000 years from now. That, and your dig was in the neighborhood of a former Laurence Livermore site. You'd be surprised, and intrigued at the radiation readings you were getting.<br /><br />The source is clearly artificial, and has been in this deposit for tens of millions of years. Like the Voyagers sailing out to the stars this find would say there was a very very ancient intelligent species that once lived on this world.<br /><br />That would be our "First Contact".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12914769586760504627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8032021663606908819.post-21008157119653605792015-07-26T06:51:38.145-04:002015-07-26T06:51:38.145-04:00Based on observation the Cetaceans have the "...Based on observation the Cetaceans have the "Gentle Gene" pretty good.<br /><br />Yeah a few hundred years before we're back in the trees what few of us are still around. The assorted Alfa-Males will be post digital "War-Lords", and such till the resources run out, and chaos finally ends natures latest experiment with intelligence.<br /><br />Sentience doesn't seem to work well on land.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12914769586760504627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8032021663606908819.post-32852404299401600342015-07-25T04:25:02.615-04:002015-07-25T04:25:02.615-04:00The tipping point won't kill us all off - just...The tipping point won't kill us all off - just most of us. And it'll probably take at least a century, most likely two or three. That's how Rome went down, & other big civs. But industrial civilization is toast, for sure. <br /><br />And yeah, we won't be around in 30 million years. Most species don't last more than ten mil, tops, and it's pretty clear that our super-duper brains won't save us. I mean, how smart have we been, really? <br /><br />It's too bad that natural selection, as you rightly point out, doesn't seem to favor the "nice" gene, at least not in primates. Cetaceans, maybe? <br /><br />ZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com