2039

Discussion in 'The Future' started by Harpo, Dec 21, 2012.

  1. Harpo

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  2. Tyrsonswood

    Tyrsonswood Senior Moment Lifetime Supporter

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    I'ma gonna try to sit that one out...
     
  3. scratcho

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    I'll be one hundred years old in 2039. Bring it on.
     
  4. Spectacles

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    I would be 89 but I am not sure I will last that long.
     
  5. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    i would wait until tomorrow. some people are still counting on a late apocalypse today.
     
  6. Aerianne

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    Yeah, it's still the 21st here.
     
  7. True.

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    Haha.. guess we will just have to wait and see..
     
  8. la Principessa

    la Principessa Old School HF Member

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    I'll be 47...hopefully I'll have lived the best part of my life by then. lol
     
  9. Maelstrom

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    I'm unsure where you get 2039.

     
  10. weeping willow

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    I lol'd

    but seriously, give it another 10 years and that'll be the new apocalypse.
     
  11. I'minmyunderwear

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    read the part after the picture.

    "There is still a very remote possibility that asteroid 1999 AN10 could pass by Earth in 2027 in such a way as to return in the year 2039 on an impacting trajectory."
     
  12. Maelstrom

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    Oh, I see, one chance in ten million. I like those odds.
     
  13. MamaPeace

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    Weirdly, I had a dream a few years back where I was standing in a crowd, can't remember why, and some guy whispered '2039' in my ear......
     
  14. Aesthete

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    Not nearly as big a deal as the year 2038 problem.
     
  15. themnax

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    probably a room number on the party floor at a convention.

    (in the year 2039 i will be 91 years old. my mom was 91 when she died, and my dad, much younger and closer to my own age, died in 1991. i wouldn't mind being alive in 2039, if i could do so with a clear mind and not in pain, but i seriously don't expect to be. i'm always curious to see how much the people of this earth may have learned by then.)
     
  16. Harpo

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    2039 is a little closer, but are we any wiser?
     
  17. broony

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    well this gives me an excuse to rob my neighbor point blank with bullets cause of the piece of shit he is..

    go home, eat a steak, masturbate, get ready for the after life..
     
  18. Vanilla Gorilla

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    After all the well known chronic diseases, suicide and motorvehicle accidents...

    Accidental falls and poisonings are the next leading / lesse known causes of death, a 1 in 108 chance of dying in a accidental fall, 1 in 123 chance of dying due to accidental poisoning.

    So some of you will fall over in the bathtub, confuse windex for gatorade, long before this asteroid hits

    Knock on wood....well not if your bathoom floor is wood
     
  19. themnax

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    i don't know about scare mongering, but if we're going to make a choice about what we want the world to be like that year, i don't think we have a whole lot of time left in which to make it.

    as early as 2039, the then raggle taggle remnants of humanity could be hard pressed to survive. i wouldn't call it scare mongering. i would call it choice.

    everything we are doing now which may be dooming us to such a scenario as my understanding considers likely, is a collective statistical choice, which is being made statistically by our collective and individual priorities.

    if we were to stop centralizing energy production, depending on private vehicles as the principal mode of transportation, and reduce human fertility over all, it might not be too late to amiliorate the worst of the comming effects. though it may indeed be too late to avoid them entirely.

    but as long as we refuse to do any of those things, we have no one to blame then ourselves, for altering our world in such a way, that may not favor the survival of the human species.
     

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