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Message 1539218 - Posted: 10 Jul 2014, 17:17:36 UTC

Today many take trips down the Nile to visit the pyramids. Others visit the Coliseum in Rome - Just two of the many available to us.

Just what do our descendants have to look forward to?

Goodbye ancient treasures
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Message 1539251 - Posted: 10 Jul 2014, 18:01:49 UTC

They can look forward to the sun burning out leaving Earth cold, dark and lifeless.
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Message 1539282 - Posted: 10 Jul 2014, 19:39:50 UTC - in response to Message 1539251.  
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They can look forward to the sun burning out leaving Earth cold, dark and lifeless.

yes in a few billion years maybe, but to more immediate concerns they will have

what we can protect.

so what does that mean? it means that they will have whatever

we are successful at, trying won't count.

so what does that mean.well if you do not understand a thing it is impossible to tell if it even needs fixing, much less how do we go about fixing it.

in the case of weather it would seem silly to me to be discussing the genetic

manipulation of crops to fix global warming when we can't predict the weather 1

week out locally with any certainty yet governments are discussing this as we speak.

so we need to do what we know how to do well and things like weather that we do not yet have a handle on we need to learn and for problem x that hasn't come up yet we need to watch for.

can we do this and leave our children a better world yes ,will we is still opened for debate you tell me.
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Message 1541518 - Posted: 14 Jul 2014, 13:32:16 UTC - in response to Message 1539251.  

They can look forward to the sun burning out leaving Earth cold, dark and lifeless.


Something to look forward too indeed... I'd rather look forward to us, destroying our planet way before the above happens!
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Message 1541524 - Posted: 14 Jul 2014, 13:46:37 UTC - in response to Message 1541518.  

The sun will incinerate the Earth long before it burns out.
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Message 1541525 - Posted: 14 Jul 2014, 13:49:02 UTC
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We don't build many monuments that will last for thousands of years like the pyramids have, maybe not any. But since the planet is continually changing, albeit very slowly even the pyramids will eventually disappear long before the planet becomes uninhabitable, either through natural causes or our devices.

Sure the environment is changing, partially due to our uncaring behavior but humans will adapt. Our descendants probably won't live much longer in many of the coastal cities around the globe but they will build new ones in better locations with better built infrastructure. That is if we don't wipe out mankind through war or some biological mistake.

One monument in north america that will probably be here for a while is the carving on Mt. Rushmore, but it too will eventually crumble and fall, evidence that nothing lasts forever. It is the nature of things to eventually fall apart. I think it is called entropy.
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My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.
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Message 1541530 - Posted: 14 Jul 2014, 14:02:16 UTC
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Entropy=> The tendency for all matter and energy in the Universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.

The spiritual world, although never proven or refuted, will never have to suffer from this.
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