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Plastic bags - are they that bad?
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Originally posted by original PM View PostOk - even then given that the sun will go red giant in about 4.5 billion years what we actually need to do to save civilisation is to colonise as many planets as possible so that we no longer rely on just one.
Although even then we are will still be fighting the heat death or big rip of the universe.
So what we really need to focus on is ensuring we sue the resources of this planet to ensure that civilisation can continue in areas other than the surface of the earth...
so yes, not polluting your oceans with plastic bags is probably a good thing..what we actually need to do to save civilisation is to colonise as many planets as possible so that we no longer rely on just one.
There was a science fiction series on the TV in the 60's introduced by Boris Karloff, can't remember the name, was it Out of this World?, where one episode told of a spaceship travelling for many generations to a distant planet. I guess at the moment, this would be the only theoretical way of reaching such planets.Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostFurthermore, if we can develop controllable fusion (only 20 years away!
Originally posted by JohntheBike View Postroduced by Boris Karloff, can't remember the name, was it Out of this World?, where one episode told of a spaceship travelling for many generations to a distant planet. I guess at the moment, this would be the only theoretical way of reaching such planets.
For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky - Wikipedia
Naturally enough the Bewigged One couldn't leave well alone.
With current technology, Project Orion is more or less the only feasible propulsion system.
Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Wikipedia
Mind you, it's a tad dirty getting that mofo into orbit.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 23 October 2019, 12:12.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by JohntheBike View Postyes, but all those possible candidates in our own solar system, e.g. Mars and Titan, would still eventually perish as a result of our sun going red giant, even if that were some time after the Earth perished. Although there appear to be some candidates occupying the Goldilocks zone of their solar systems, these seem to be out of the range of our current propulsion methods.
There was a science fiction series on the TV in the 60's introduced by Boris Karloff, can't remember the name, was it Out of this World?, where one episode told of a spaceship travelling for many generations to a distant planet. I guess at the moment, this would be the only theoretical way of reaching such planets.
So - Space Elevator - just go to the 'roid belt and get a rocky asteroid and an icy one, smack them together and then extrude your carbon nanotubes to make a space elevator.
Only problem is we cannot really get to the 'roids nor can we make a carbon nanotube long enough..
So you need anti gravity drive - which also does not quite exist yet.
Ho hum back to the drawing board!Comment
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Originally posted by MasterBait View Posttotally useless packaging around vegetables and fruit for example.
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostIt's been 10 years in the future since the 1950s with no sign of much, if any, improvement on that.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostYou don't say.
Back to The Future Mr. Fusion ReplicaWhen the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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