Once upon a time lived some dinosaurs.
They spent their days eating, walking, flying, swimming, fucking and generally minding their own business.
One day, right out of the blue, a big fucken asteroid slammed into the planet around about Mexico and killed (almost) the fucken lot of them. Oceans vaporised, the sun was blocked halting photosynthesis so the plants died, air became unbreathable and that was the end of pretty much everything for a long time to come.
One single asteroid some 14 kilometers in diameter and all that destruction.
It's not a very happy story, life on this planet pretty much ceased to exist for a long, long time. Sure, it didn't happen immediately but with toxic air, earthquakes and volcanoes and all manner of fucken hell on Earth life didn't last very long after that asteroid struck.
Did you know there's over 190 confirmed asteroid craters on our planet?
Science boffins reckon there's been many more too and due to environmental and geological change/effects like earthquakes, wind and rain erosion, the movement of the tectonic plates and the chaos that can cause with the planet's surface many of the craters have been erased.
But why am I talking about asteroids and tectonic plates?
I was talking to a chap last night who seemed to think the human race will endure forever and continue to thrive. I call bullshit on that though, nothing is forever - just ask the dinosaurs. (Oh yeah, you can't because they're fucken gone.)
I think it's typically human thing to think that life won't change; their life or general life.
Humans are hubristic and egotistical creatures often refusing to see or accept that things can change quickly. They tend to waste life (time) because of that...so many humans don't want to acknowledge that it could all come to a sudden halt and carry on acting accordingly in so many ways. It's not just asteroids - although I'd say that's quite a likely event at some stage. People die untimely deaths all the time - death is pretty final.
Things change: Job and relationship losses, health issues, financial situations, global pandemics, war, natural disasters, civil unrest even something as simple as a government-change can have massive and ongoing effects on people's lives.
Things can change, and they will.
Your life will look a lot different if an asteroid like the one that struck 66 million years ago hits again. Your life will look different if you die of a heart attack because you're a fat unhealthy cunt and do nothing about it...just for an example. What if your plane went down in mid-flight and crashed...yep, your life would look different. Or...you were in a vehicle wreck and became a quadriplegic...that's change your life huh?
Can't happen? Won't happen? Don't be so fucken naive
Anyway, I'm not really sure where this is going.
I guess I was just a bit shocked about the naivety, hubris and ego of the fellow and how he tends to waste time because he feels he has plenty of it...and I'm often shocked when people who should know better do not do better when it comes to looking after themselves and leading their best life. Think about the fat fuck...Talks about eating better, exercising and becoming healthier but isn't doing it.
Talk is cheap, it's action that matters; massive action now because one never knows when it'll be too late.
Why don't people take better care of themselves? Why do they not see that the only way to a better, healthier, longer life is to do the right thing...to actually do it not talk about it. Are people lazy? Oblivious to the dangers? Do they not care?
The best time to make a change for the better, to live better and be better, is right now because tomorrow isn't promised.
I don't know if an asteroid will hit the planet and fuck it up making humans extinct and there's nothing we could do if that was to happen; I hope it happens though, the planet needs a reset and humans are incapable of making that happen despite talking a lot of shit about making it happen.
We can live better lives though, that's well within our ability right now and it's quite easy to do; living a better life will bring a better future for an individual...until that asteroid wipes us out.
What do you reckon? Will an asteroid do us all in, or will people do that to themselves.
Design and create your ideal life, tomorrow isn't promised - galenkp
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The question is not "if an asteroid will strike"; the question is "when it will strike"
Ask your friend to go light on the weed, or whatever else that he is doing :) Ask him to give you some of that shit :)
This is the time scale, and it is not linear.........because if I do linear you can't even see human evolution....
Tell him, only small insect like roaches will survive such an impact event :)
Also ask him the longest lasting historical human civilization ... it is the imperial Japan, about 1000 years.......everything else is less, Egyptians, Ming China, Sumerians, Mughals.... all less than that. "western civilization" is how old? 600 years? :)
1000 year of Japanese imperialism was possible because it was an island nation... unlikely it would have even happen any other ways. Geologic time is expressed in millions of years......the smallest possible unit of measure is 100K years, and that is when we are lucky!
Regardless, we are just a spec of dust on this planet. We will be gone long before the next epoch in Geologic time.
I was hoping you'd see this post and chime in with your take as somewhat of an expert in such things. I'm not surprised with your response at all...and I agree with it.
Did you see the Jack hill zircon in Pilbara on the image? That's the source of my handle :)
I noticed the Pilbara on there, a nice part of Australia, remote, rugged and quite beautiful really.
Although the disappearance of all forms of life on planet earth is certain, with the impact of some large rock that will not burn in the earth's atmosphere, like those 66 million years ago, when all the dinosaurs and other forms of life that walked the earth were exterminated, it is very certain that the human race may not experience that impact.
We will probably exterminate each other... Or some virus will exterminate us...
I watched a documentary yesterday, the earth was created 4.2 billion years ago by the impact of a rock that separated the earth and the moon... So 4 billion years ago the first form of life appeared, some amoeba at the bottom of the ocean.
230 million years ago the first dinosaurs (apparently they fucked and reproduced very well when they lived to be 165 million years old - that would be interesting to see. I'm imagining a cow and a bull now, but two Trex are on my mind 🙂 ).
And watch out now, 2.5 million years ago, a shape resembling a human was created. And only 200 or 300 thousand years ago, a man who looks like us today.
He just wasn't selfish and egotistical, crazy, like we are today.
They say that the earth will exist for another billion years, when the sun will suck it up.
And then we will not be there to see that cataclysm.
The human race will exist forever, says your friend?
But we won't be around in 10,000 years, let alone 100,000 or a million, let alone a billion.
And if we don't try to live healthy, eat healthy, reduce stress, we won't last for the next 10 years 😅
I agree with you, humans won't be around forever and I think they will be their creators of their own demise. Thanks for your excellent comment.
While we're still here, let's treat ourselves to some more enjoyment 😀 (before the new work week begins).
Cheers!
Little enjoyment to have here after a 16 person religion-inspires massacre on Bondi Beach. But yeah, the work week starts regardless.
Uff, I didn't turn on the TV or read the news today 😪
What will become of the world until the end, Israel, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela, Europe, protests... I couldn't even dream that something like this would happen in Australia...
Yeah man, it's happened before 34 people massacred by one shooter down in Port Arthur early 1990's...but that wasn't religion-related.
Great... now I had the image in my head of dinosaurs fucking... thanks Galen. haha.
Yeah, dinosaurs all died in a cataclysm... one of the what? Five major Extinction events on earth, if what scientists found to be true then every 65-130 million years or so, some phenomenon kills off most of life on the planet and then whatever survives evolves into whatever is around after.
Well... it has been 65 million years since the last great extinction event. So statistically, any time from now to the next 60 million years.
And then Human history only numbers in the thousands, tens of thousands even, but not Hundreds of thousands. We we are a far-cry from the Dino-high score...
Anyway, besides all of this leg room... I still think that humanity has a higher chance of self destruction than a natural one destroying our race. If a natural disaster like that struck at a global scale it would almost be a mercy. I mean... that's my nihilistic approach to how I have been feeling toward the majority of my fellow man. People are not... as a whole... clever or caring. SOME are, but most are not.
Anyway, I am glad you enjoyed your sunset walk with your lady on the beach. Sounds nice.
Lol, they do it dino-style.
I agree with you, too much nutbaggery and fuckassery going on for me to see it any differently; the Bondi Beach, Sydney situation yesterday is just another example. Humans are generally disgusting cunts.
Dino-style, It is like doggy-style but with cool sound effects!
Yep, that's how I picture it. They have their own website too, www.dinohub.com
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man... the imagination runs wild... It can get wierd fast!
Gets weird for sure, dinosaurs know how to get their freak on.
Everyone lives with this in mind "nah it won't happen to me", almost EVERYONE, yet the laws of the big numbers don't lie...anything has a chance to happen (of course a possible event not like "tomorrow I fly like a bird"), and given infinite time it will happen, so if an asteroid has a 0,000001% chance to hit and wipe life on earth again, with infinite time it will happen
I remember a case, a man in his sofa, a meteor hit his house, broke the roof, fell in the room, hit something and bounced on the head of the guy, chances of something like thar were also like 0,00001% but it happened to him...
I agree, a wipe would be needed, even if not all people are bad, the majority is, new generations even worse... But animals and other kind of lifes are innocents that's why I cheer for a sentient Ai takeover to take custody of the planet over humans
I would like to think humans have the ability to arrest the backslide, the fuckery, but I do not believe they do. There's far to few doing far too little...but a lot of people talking about it and doing fuck all.
Yep, here we say "Between saying and doing, there is the sea", a lot of people just blabla but no real action... There is the potential but not the will, lazyness, greed and so on
And just on my point of life coming to a halt at anytime...there was a mass shooting/massacre on Bondi Beach in Sydney only two hours ago. So...can't happen? Yep, it does happen.
I had the alert on Telegram about that, hatred never ends, and again that cancer called religion, we know specifically which one...
Yeah, religion huh? Seems always to inspire hatred.
If it hits in the same place I will have a front row seat. Prolly not enough time to pop some popcorn tho.
You can bet me and @pooky-jax along with the @krazzy-kitty pride will be surfing that shit tsunami straight to the afterlife party 🎉🥳🎉
Lol, yeah close by. I'm hoping it lands somewhere else...a few places actually and you can probably work them out.
If not for that asteroid, humans wouldn't be here.
Humans can survive an impact. Maybe not the ones on the planet but those in space, provided people are able to build sustainable habitats, stand a greater chance. Might not want to be on the moon though. Large impact could send debris that way and the moon has no protection.
Humans also have the opportunity to live by taking on other forms. For example, AI. Technology will be in space. Human creations become the new life form. Science-fiction of course. Better than going extinct though, so probably worth the effort. Plus the tech can hold on to the memories, and maybe even find a suitable place to seed life.
What a terrible "world" you describe.
I think it fits well with your line of thinking. People know it's coming. Imagine sitting there doing nothing about it. An entire species yet. One that is supposed to be intelligent on top of that.
Even the people that don't know how to swim try to stop themselves from drowning.
And I'm confident space will be filled with robotics. Even if something comes along to wipe out humanity and the bots go into standby mode, the next life form to rise above the clouds will discover them. Those chunks of metal will be their dinosaur fossils.
Science-fiction by the way. I think it's an interesting world.
I was only talking this morning about the way the present is starting to resemble sci-fi books and movies from a while back; more and more every day.
Imagine explaining how you and I are communicating right now, to someone 200 years ago. Smoke signals sure have changed.
I find it all to be so fascinating. Everything, from any time period that people use and enjoy, often taking it all for granted, started out as a crazy idea. I picture the first human stumbling into a forest fire, smelling cooked meat for the first time, having a taste, then failing miserably at getting others to try it. Or the first to sharpen a stick on a rock. Everyone else is wondering why he doesn't just go break one off the tree like they've always done.
Of course, that's science-fiction as well. I wasn't there.
I've often thought about how people started eating various foods. I can only assume people determined what not to eat by seeing someone else eat them and die.
Yeah. The blindfolded taste test, came before blindfolds.
I saw a news story the other day talking about scientists being five years away from being able to reproduce dinosaurs. Needless to say, the comments were gold!
Oh yeah, humans in all their pride and hubris...masters of the universe.
Can't get humanity right but feel compelled to meddle with everything else.
#bunchofcunts
Would be cool if we could build a planetary defense system that would be capable of detecting and deflecting asteroids...
Nah, knowing humans they'd turn the system on each other.