Would the Universe be better off without Earth?
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Topic: Would the Universe be better off without Earth?
Posted By: Vompatti
Subject: Would the Universe be better off without Earth?
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 08:42
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 08:45
Since the Universe is moving away from Earth in all directions I can only surmise that the decision has already been made and now it's only a matter of time...  ------------- What? |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 08:52
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 10:41
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Ah, if only the Vogons could exist in our reality...! It would make more sunlight for Mars. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 10:46
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 13:03
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Earth is fine. The people, on the other hand..... ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 14:16
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the planet is fine, the people are f**ked? |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 14:47
Exactamundo. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Vompatti wrote:Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 14:47
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The universe would be better if never existed!!! Also, for those who say that earth is fine and people are f**ked up (Carlin had said this), forget that Earth created humans too! It's all a big accident! I'm glad I'm a nature/universe hater and I don't want to save the planet, I want to save us from the planet! If I could, I would destroy this galaxy! Therefore, neither yes nor no from me! ------------- Sonorous Meal show every Sunday at 20:00 (greek time) on http://www.justincaseradio.com |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 14:53
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Humans would be a much less disagreeable species if they had never developed consciousness. |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 14:59
Consciousness was a mistake |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 15:15
That, a natural mistake! Since it isn't a super consciousness of course! ------------- Sonorous Meal show every Sunday at 20:00 (greek time) on http://www.justincaseradio.com |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 15:25
I don't say much around here outside music but I will say this.
I'm so thankful and relieved that I get to exit this rock in about 20
years (assuming an average lifespan adjusted for smoking.) And it ain't the rock that's the
problem, but the humans. Those with illusions of technical
ecstasy (thanks Sab) and future wise societies, ie "progress", are going
to be so disappointed. Not gonna happen. We've already peaked many years ago and are
moving backwards now. It's hard to accept given the things we've swallowed but eventually we may see. Ignore those who are bitter of heart and misguided in mind. Just love those in your circle and accept their love, it's all you really have. And of course, enjoy the breeze, music, and sun.   ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 15:50
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Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 15:57
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I voted Yes but can we at least save a bit of Prog Rock for future species elsewhere in the universe - maybe Yes even.............. ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 17:14
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damn man.... sorry to see the human race getting bagled... but they are the DT, SWilson and f**king Camel of sentient species... we've earned the hate I know the day the government told us we had a week to survive I would unleash a orgy of sex, drugs, booze and violence that would be hard for anyone to match though the point is... I'd have a LOT of competition. Violent selfish dirty animals we are... and we will revel in our final days as a species and planet. umm hmmm..------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 17:17
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Metal Micky tell me when the orgy is on, I want in -stuff the earth............. ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 17:25
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oh man....my end of the world party would be easy to find.. follow the trail of crying broken-hearted redheads.. broken Jack Daniels bottles.. discarded Winston packs.. broken homemade bongs.. smashed up vehicles.. and of course .45 slugs... look for the man in a black dress carrying a red head in one hand, a bottle of Jack in the other and a Desert Eagle tucked into his garter... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 17:47
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Cool, thanks now I know what to look for promise to bring a redhead or two, some single malt and erinmore flake, sounds like your've got he rest covered. Ps Don't invite Ford Prefect- clearly he is batting for the other team or something. I mean at the end all he will bring is a guy call Arthur? You know he could've brought Paris, Madge or even Britney what a looser! ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 17:53
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Yes but it would seriously miss the moon. ------------- 
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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 19:01
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Had to lodge the first vote for "no". Not because I have any strong opinions on the whole "futility-of-life-and-society-going-to-hell-in-a-hand-basket" debate that's going on, but because, objectively speaking, the absence of Earth simply wouldn't have a significant impact on anything. There might be some minute impact on the orbital periods of all the objects in the solar system to keep angular momentum conserved, but it would probably be less than a rounding error in terms of impact. So the universe wouldn't be any better off without Earth. Or any worse off, for that matter. Honestly, the only thing that might happen of any consequence is some alien astronomers might be scratching their heads when they notice that it's been a while since the last transit... ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 20:19
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If we're gone, who cares if the Universe is better off or not? |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 01 2016 at 21:23
what???.... and you ruined our humanity bagel for ...that boo!!!  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 01:04
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No. The Earth is a complete irelevance within the universe. Smaller than a germ. It makes no odds in the grand scheme of things if we exist or not. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 02:04
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I'm rather surprised to read a lot of comments about the evil that is mankind, while we're discussing of getting rid of the whole planet: do you really accept a planet that brought light to animal species such as the monotremes, the dolphins and the ducks? |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 04:52
Unlikely. The alien astronomers formed a prog band exclusively using banjos and accordions. They're too busy learning ELP's entire oeuvre to worry about their telescopes now. |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 05:15
Do you think they could do Aqualung also................ ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 05:22
Oh yeah, probably. They don't have vocal cords as we know them but that would probably help them to sing like Ian Anderson. It could be better material for them than ELP anyway since they fell out with their drummer, he said he was better than Carl Palmer but they told him if you're using six arms it doesn't count. |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 05:45
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Cool, will there be a movie too ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 05:56
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Would Progarchives be better off without pointless threads like this? ------------- On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became. Ernest Vong |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 06:12
Great poll idea, dude! You should post it. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 07:36
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There is one thing that the Earth has contributed to the Ooniverse that as far as we know no other planet has done and that is litter. While through their destruction suns and their planets have spewed elemental particles and electromagnetic radiation into space, we are the only documented planet to have done this deliberately, along with the satellites and associated manmade debris that orbits the Earth, we've littered other nearby planets, moons and the odd comet, and we've also littered the solar neighbourhood with spurious lumps of flying metal. More than this we've been indiscriminately spewing manmade electromagnetic radiation into free space for the past 130 years so we have polluted our neighbourhood to a radius of 130 light years with this noise. If the destruction of the Earth is being schemed by minds immeasurably superior to ours then it will be because we're inconsiderate neighbours. ------------- What? |
Posted By: DeadSouls
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 09:16
| Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania, Neptune, Titan. Stars can frighten, whoooo, whooooo. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 12:49
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What an absolutely meaningless question.........and the correct answer is it doesn't matter. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 12:56
hah.. see how meaningless it becomes when you see a hot brunette with no tits but a killer ass and toned set of legs that won't quit...with a 5 0'clock shadow .. a joint hanging from her lips...walking down your street packing a bottle of Jack in one hand, and a redhead in the other ... and yet still very quick on the draw with his .45... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 15:50
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Did you start your party without telling me............ Oh wait that means the world is about to end ..... or your just on a bender It's gotta be Fifty/Fifty I guess! ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 15:53
So I guess there is no good parties happening out your way............. ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 16:12
ahhh... I think you read his meaning wrong man. Pointless threads like this are exactly what us boring old farts who HAVE no real lives full of booze, broads and blow (only the fond memories of our hedonistic youth). so yeah... I bet he posted that with his nose in a pile of coke, a near empty bottle of Jose Cuervo next to his keyboard and enjoying the company of a blond with a major oral fixation. Do you think threads like this are interesting to him! ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 16:20
God good, and he finds time to post on Prog Archives, play keyboard while attached to a blond vaccum and do coke- I gotta meet this guy and get some airline tickets too ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 03 2016 at 12:19
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Perhaps the question should be: Is the earth better off without the universe. Makes just as much sense as the OP's question. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 03 2016 at 12:27
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 03 2016 at 12:34
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How the earth influences the universe? We're insignificant in universal terms. We make no difference in the universe, except because as far as we know, we're the only intelligent life form we can affect.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 03 2016 at 12:36
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Yes. It's time to strike the match and watch earth combust. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: October 03 2016 at 12:36
| How do you know we are insignificant in universal terms? |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 03 2016 at 13:04
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Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: October 03 2016 at 13:20
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"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 03 2016 at 13:21
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 04 2016 at 01:25
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^ you really should be careful about accepting sweeties from strange men.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 04 2016 at 01:35
Try telling that to the mice....................... ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: October 04 2016 at 03:43
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How could the universe be better off without Pink Floyd, Marillion, Hawkwind, Queen, etc seriously there still is no evidence whatsoever of any other civilisations anywhere else in the Galaxy and quantum physics does suggest that the Universe needs an intelligent observer in order to exist so therefore it must produce intelligent life.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 03:08
I'm not sure quantum physics say such a thing. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 03:24
set that to 11/8 and tossed in some mellotron and a treble jacked Rick and voila... you have you some prog! ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 05:39
Quantum physics............. or how about a Higgs Boson? The Higgs Boson walks into a church. The Priest says, "we don't allow Higgs Bosons' in here. The Higgs Boson says "But without me how can you have mass?"  ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 10:52
Well, simply a matter of distance. Our solar system is one of 200 million only in our galaxy We haven't even reached the closest planet and most likely we won't be going outside our solar system in centuries (Except for some probes). So...What's the effect we can create in universal terms? Insignificant. -------------
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 11:36
| Ivan it is okay to say you really do not know |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 11:54
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 12:30
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Why not? ------------- |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: December 22 2016 at 12:28
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The universe is to dumb to know we own it. It should keep its mouth shut. Have you seen its ratings?Sad. Pathetic. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: January 10 2017 at 15:47
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------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: January 31 2017 at 16:50
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With Trump in control, I think so.................. ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: February 10 2017 at 16:46
Couldn't agree more with this statement.......... And.....even though in recent centuries the tools of modern science have expanded our understanding of the physical universe in really unprecedented ways, many of the answers obtained thus far - both from experimental observations and the theories that still underlie much of modern physics - are laden with a number of assumptions....  So, while our society places a high degree of confidence in science due to our technological advancements, we must though be careful to identify its limitations... . .. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 10 2017 at 20:31
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I wouldn't put a sudden poo-fling past a future Trump press conference (people would probably love it); "Trump Hurls Monkey Feces at George Stephanopoulos-- Secret Service Steps In, Trump's Favorability Hits All Time High" ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: February 10 2017 at 21:57
Nah, the universe would be too  boring without Earth.------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: February 10 2017 at 22:20
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The universe would be better without planets ------------- Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV. https://www.soundcloud.com/user-322914325 |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 11 2017 at 00:29
If anything, I'd say that the universe could be better without mankind, not the planet earth
the day mankind will start setting foot on Mars and settle there, may be the universe will be better off without, but let's face it's (for now) our only exit... especially now that Trump will allow his buddies to sully and pollute freely. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 00:03
| Answer is quite clearly yes |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: March 09 2017 at 08:34
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Posted By: mlkpad14
Date Posted: March 15 2017 at 18:10
| The planet Earth doesn't matter i the grand scheme of the universe... Yeah, we don't matter XD. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 16 2017 at 10:40
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It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. ― http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4.Douglas_Adams" rel="nofollow - http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1877624" rel="nofollow - |