If natural resources such as minerals, trees, and chemicals are being gathered and processed to make everyday products, and these products are eventually burned, pulverized, disintegrated, biodegraded or destroyed to form mostly dust and carbon, which goes back into the earth at some point, and then resides as trace molecules in the dirt, only to be used by plants and bacteria... What happens when we run out of resources? We just have a bunch of dirt with organisms that can live off of it? When all the copper and iron has been mined, when all the oil has been burned up, what do we have left? A bunch of trees to make wood? I'm not trying to sound like an environmentalist, but don't we have a finite amount of resources? Doesn't everything we process eventually get dispersed into waste and ash? Doesn't it all turn into microscopic diluted shit for lesser organisms to live off of? Are we simply making fertilizer for insects and micrsocopic creatures to feed on and make more shit?
Aren't we producing and manufacturing and disposing at a far greater rate than nautral resources can even form? Sure we have enough to sustain ourselves now, but in 10,000 years?
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Anonymous2005-01-08 19:31
its a one shot deal
we have mined most of the iron ore(steel) from the top depths of the planet
if we fail now and nuke eachother to radioactive pieces... the next civilization wont even have enough resources to try and start over
unless they mine asteroids and all that
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Anonymous2005-01-08 19:53
Man belongs in space exploiting other planets and shit anyway. The sooner Earth runs low the sooner people will realize and make that push out of the womb.
too bad we'll all be long dead before man is that competent in space
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Anonymous2005-01-09 2:12
The threat of impending doom can be a good motivating factor. See Cold War & Moon Landing
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Anonymous2005-01-09 2:13
The threat of impending doom can be a good motivating factor. See Cold War & Moon Landing
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Anonymous2005-01-09 6:10
I thought the space-race was more national penis waving and further developing technologies to blow ourselves up under the guise of advancing humanity.
The 2channelers like to play around with incorrect conversions. In hiragana it says おまえもしね (omae mo shine) which is taken to mean "You die, too". But if you type "shine" into the IME it has a few different conversions. One of these (which is incorrect) is 氏ね. Others are 市ね 士ね 誌ね 師ね 史ね 詞ね 資ね ... etc.
But 氏ね is the most popular misconversion on 2ch. It's like misspelling words on purpose.
Actually, there are now investigations going into a theory that oil is a renewable resource not made by the fossils of dinosaurs as we once thought. Besides, humans adapt very quickly, it's what we do. So there's no need to be too concerned.
Not shit. Natto. Though it's understandable because it's hard to tell the difference.
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Artificialist2005-01-18 22:26
>>18
You think Japan is nothing but a live action Night SHift Nurses movie? I have never seen a dumber generalization in months.
Besides, how could shiteaters much such fucking boring cars like the Honda Accord?
Anyway, my view on life is this: We are all screwed, party on while we can. Now this week, I'm off to see a Monster Truck fest.
>>19 >>22
I agree with 22, and 19's just plain wrong; oil comes primarily from the explosion of plant life in the Carboniferous period. The abiogenetic methods of oil production are way out there in the realm of science, and often used as part of Creationist 'theory' to explain away the existence of oil and coal as evidence of an older Earth.
you can turn human corpses into a few drops of oil if you have the right tools, but it simply isnt worth it right now. When we get to the point where only the military has access to oil, you'll be seeing every decaying body being turned into oil instead of being stuck in the ground. Probably not in your lifetime though.
and by that point an alternative fuel will be in use.... we dont have to resort to human bodies, you can make fuel from corn among other things which are entirely renewable
all thats required is a new generation of engines to run on the alternate fuel and mass transportation is saved... no decaying human bodies required
auto companies will love it, everything will be obsolete so people will have to buy new ones
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Anonymous2005-02-23 14:26
a lot of gas powered cars can be converted relatively easily to run on hydrogen or biodiesel, a neat solution. actually a lot of busses and stuff run on compressed natural gas even now, and fuel cells are just over the horizon.
the underlying view that we are "running out of resources" is not really correct - we have just as many iron, copper, etc. atoms as we did when the planet was formed, they are just compressed into microchips and cars and stuff instead of spread around in the dirt. this means that we can recycle stuff. of course, as the number of people on earth grows, we will need more total stuff.
in terms of energy, the sun pours really massive amounts of energy down onto the earth every day, which can be harvested with solar pannels, or a little less directly (but, ironically, more efficently) with giant wind turbines. if we could harvest even like 1% of the energy hitting the earth we would have way more energy than we could ever use (atleast for a long time). the sun (as a natural resource) is going to be here for a looong time.