6 billion vs. 12 billion

[chimera15]

My hero.  Reg woulda had a robot girlfriend too, cept he had a holo deck.  Even more convenient. lol

[Rajagra]

Geordie Laforge had good taste in holoskirt:

[chimera15]

Geordie Laforge had good taste in holoskirt:

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She was almost Janeway.

[KillerBee]

Lets see I am 24 now in 100 years I will be 124 which means I wont be around soo.... I think its cool whatever they want to end up doing in 100 years!

[KillerBee]

I keep saying human civilization peaked in 1985. Its all downhill from here and I'm glad I lived thru the peak and wont be around for the bottom.

Can you expand a bit on this? Why 1985 is there something significant that happened that year?

And to believe I was born the year after that, ohh boy I am a downfall baby

[Sam]

Can you expand a bit on this? Why 1985 is there something significant that happened that year?

And to believe I was born the year after that, ohh boy I am a downfall baby

KillerBee, you above all people should have gotten that.  Of course it was the year the Model M was introduced.  After that it's been all downhill.

[wellington1869]

Can you expand a bit on this? Why 1985 is there something significant that happened that year?

well its not an exact date, but sometime in the mid-80s it was as good as humans are going to get it. Think about it.  (I started a thread on this at some point... i'll see if i can find it...)

(sam, good point about the model M, though wikipedia says production on the M began in 1984. still, thats what i mean, by mid 80s its about as good as we'll ever have it

And to believe I was born the year after that, ohh boy I am a downfall baby

yea, sad to tell ya bro, you missed the boat on human civ you're definitely downfall baby. "generation downfall".

[instantkamera]

Ha! Never happen..  Boys are stupid and men are easy...Even if there were only one male left on the planet he would still be trying to mount every female on left with him.

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[itlnstln]

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A: The post is clear and concise.

I don't really like to pile on, but this was epic.

[KillerBee]

KillerBee, you above all people should have gotten that.  Of course it was the year the Model M was introduced.  After that it's been all downhill.

Bwahahahahahaha!!! (evil laugh indeed)

production on the M began in 1984

I shall search untill I can find this 1984 Model M that you speak of! Again Bwahahahahahaha!!! (evil laugh indeed)

[mr_a500]

I keep saying human civilization peaked in 1985. Its all downhill from here and I'm glad I lived thru the peak and wont be around for the bottom.

I totally agree - 1985 was the turning point. Actually, it started a few years before, but the effects were mainly felt in 1985. You could really tell by the end of the 80's.

I remember when the world population was 3.8 billion. Back then, I read an article about "future population" and was shocked when it predicted 6 billion people by the year 2000. I couldn't believe it. I said, "Oh ****! Something has to be done to prevent that from happening!"

Of course, nothing was done. The prediction was remarkably accurate. Now we're seeing predictions for over 9 billion. I'm sure people are saying, "Oh ****! Something has to be done to prevent that from happening!"

Nothing will be done. It will happen.

[msiegel]

[wellington1869]

1985 was also the year of Phil Collins.

And clunky keyboards.

doesnt matter. everything to come will be worse, on the whole.

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[wellington1869]

I totally agree - 1985 was the turning point. Actually, it started a few years before, but the effects were mainly felt in 1985. You could really tell by the end of the 80's.

we have more catastrophic, mass-death ways to die today than ever before, and most of them are becoming a reality super-fast. With no fixes in sight, not even any good ideas in some cases. We're hurtling towards a mad-max style post-modern, post-apocolyptic neo-feudal neo-tribal future where a handful of survivors scavenge a livelihood.

I remember when the world population was 3.8 billion. Back then, I read an article about "future population" and was shocked when it predicted 6 billion people by the year 2000. I couldn't believe it. I said, "Oh ****! Something has to be done to prevent that from happening!"

Of course, nothing was done. The prediction was remarkably accurate. Now we're seeing predictions for over 9 billion. I'm sure people are saying, "Oh ****! Something has to be done to prevent that from happening!"

Nothing will be done. It will happen.

yea, i remember the 3.8 billion number. in comparison to today, world was so much cozier, like a little village, back then. So innocent we were in comparison to today.

[mr_a500]

we have more catastrophic, mass-death ways to die today than ever before, and most of them are becoming a reality super-fast. With no fixes in sight, not even any good ideas in some cases. We're hurtling towards a mad-max style post-modern, post-apocolyptic neo-feudal neo-tribal future where a handful of survivors scavenge a livelihood. .

But on the bright side, I hear Soylent Green tastes pretty good.

[wellington1869]

But on the bright side, I hear Soylent Green tastes pretty good.

i did like some of those outfits in mad max. it'll be like living inside a heavy metal concert

[wellington1869]

and there's this: in the future, the american economy looks like it will be based on its citizens serving coffee to one another, hoping to sell some media on the side.

the world's strongest economies, meanwhile, will be run by brutal dictatorships who havent the slightest interest in either democracy or human rights, and now empowered by finance capitalism and nukes, and turning the internet into the greatest tool for spying on individuals and elminating the private sphere altogether.

they wont be racked by any self doubt.

and we'll be serving them coffee too.

[mr_a500]

i did like some of those outfits in mad max.

I'd want the leather pants that don't have the butt cutouts.

[wellington1869]

I'd want the leather pants that don't have the butt cutouts.

lol. that wont help you escape the maruading butt-sex gangs.

[chimera15]

lol. that wont help you escape the maruading butt-sex gangs.

2 men enter, 1 man leaves?


This future has already proven to be true:

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[quadibloc]

Geordie Laforge had good taste in holoskirt:

That's simply not true. He made a copy of her on the holodeck merely to help him with a problem with the warp drive on the Enterprise D. It's true he later came to respect and admire the real Leah Brahms... who was already married, unfortunately for him... but he wasn't up to any hanky-panky on the holodeck!

Notwithstanding the Model M, I thought civilization started going downhill after about 1967 or so, myself.

[wellington1869]

so who was the sexiest virtual holodeck babe? everyone knows it was minuet. "nice enhancements".

even "reality riker" couldnt resist her.

Notwithstanding the Model M, I thought civilization started going downhill after about 1967 or so, myself.

you're prolly right, tho i think we had a 'grace period' of blissful ignorance thru the 70s and 80s.

[Rajagra]

2 men enter, 1 man leaves?

I will never be able to watch that film in the same way again.

[quadibloc]

I remember when the world population was 3.8 billion. Back then, I read an article about "future population" and was shocked when it predicted 6 billion people by the year 2000. I couldn't believe it. I said, "Oh ****! Something has to be done to prevent that from happening!"

Of course, nothing was done. The prediction was remarkably accurate.

Yes, but it's not quite true that nothing was done.

Norman Borlaug and the "Green Revolution" happened. Were it not for that, the increase of the world's population to that level would have had the consequence of the mass famines that everyone was expecting.

Unless similar improvements in agriculture happen again, it is likely we will still have problems. However, catastrophe is not certain. For example, in connection with phosphates, one of the articles I had pointed out earlier mentioned a new phosphate mine in Australia with 1.2 billion tons of phosphate rock.

Phosphate rock, to be considered good-quality ore, needs to have almost 6% soluble phosphorous oxide.

World phosphate production, at the time of "peak phosphates", is estimated to hit 30 million tons per year. (This particular mine, though, is only estimated as being able to produce one million tons of phosphates a year.)

While disaster is not certain enough to justify deadly force, it is likely. But we can avoid it - for example, we can get all the energy we need from nuclear power, thus avoiding global warming problems, and having enough energy to do other things we might wish to do; for example, contraceptives exist, so we have no need to have any children in excess of those we know we are certain to be able to feed.

[Voixdelion]

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Touché.
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[SirClickAlot]

Ha! Never happen..  Boys are stupid and men are easy...Even if there were only one male left on the planet he would still be trying to mount every female on left with him.

Hmmmzz, could that be the reason I like the movie "the omega man" that much?

*laugh*

Regards.

[Rajagra]

Hmmmzz, could that be the reason I like the movie "the omega man" that much?

*laugh*

Regards.

Well, it was based on the book I Am Legover.

[SirClickAlot]

Well, it was based on the book I Am Legover.

You mean I am Legend?

Regards.