Is accelerating the Apocalypse a really good idea?
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Hi, I am Rational Spirituality,\n\nBecause I believe in the omniscient and omnipotent God, I do not believe that humanity can accelerate anything over and above God's will.\n\nIn fact, I do not believe in total  Apocalypse, only a good shake up the humanity needs, in order to wake up to the fact of a new order.  The Spiritual Age already started.\n\nBecause God is totally in charge, and because it is in his vested interest to guide those open to guiding into the light, there will be a "happy ending" to it all.  ...  In only about 22 millions of years.\n\nRead "Rational Spirituality" on the Dhaxem website.  Although conveyed only in February 2006, it is alredy a major force amongst the thinking people.
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Put a twister to it. Most books about the end of the world all end just about the same. Try getting something different to happen like only a contiuation for the next book. Let want ever happens be only a book that is being read and not true.
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Barring a nuclear winter or other catastrophic event, we'll still be around, polluting, smoking, and drinking.  Humans are pretty hardy creatures, and have lived through plagues, Ice Ages, etc.  While we are using our resources at an exponential rate, I do think this will necessitate some of the newer technologies already in the works.  We'll use fossil fuels until we can't any more, but there's always other forms of energy.  Right now, its too expense to implement mass change across the globe, but soon we won't have a choice, and I can't fathom that we as people (who have been around for hundreds of thousands of years) would suddenly fail to adapt.  That's what we were meant to do- to populate this planet.  \n\nSo no, unless a catastrophe of unheard-of magnitude strikes us, we'll still be around.  People for centuries have said the end times are upon us.  I'm still waiting....
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Wow zaheers writing IS happening at an exponential rate, But it was a good answer, because bottom line we have no hard facts that prove exponential growth, recently of warming, lots of good theories though.
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The chances of it is extremely small, yet finite.  \nParticle Accelerators if not used carefully, you might accidently blow up the entire universe.
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Query - have any of you read the book, or looked at the plan? It's clever, not perfect but at least it's something more than Sally Struthers standing there teary-eyed and saying "think of the children!"\n\nI'm inclined to think this plan is worth a shot. Yes, it'd be nice if Bono and Jolie would put their money where their mouths are, but it seems a far better use of tax dollars spent on foreign aid to render it through programs that actually do something rather than funnel it through dubious government entities that allow a great deal of siphoning off the top by corrupt leaders.\n\nOr we could just allow Malthusian processes to take care of it through war, famine and pestilence. Not that these don't impact us. Famine drives up the prices of crops. Pestilence, well, we now have HIV which may have been caught and contained far sooner if there was a public health infrastructure in place, and hemorrhagic fevers native to many of these regions are the stuff of nightmares. Then there's war, but I don't think I need to remind you how many situations the military has gotten into after the humanitarian portion of the mission collapsed. I think it's simply cheaper in the long-run to try to ameliorate poverty rather than deal with it's aftermath, but it's as much your tax money as it is mine, so we'll see the exit polls.
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There is no danger of an apocalyptic end to the world from any of the current particle accelerators, or any conceivable in the near future.  This is because current particle accelerators can't do anything that isn't already being done by nature.  There are cosmic rays striking our atmosphere, the moon, and Jupiter, all the time with more centre-of-mass energy than can be produced by current particle accelerators.  If there were a danger of destroying the Earth, it would have happened naturally long before now.\n\nCurrent particle accelerators don't do anything unique, they just do it in a particular location under controlled conditions.  If you can't afford a particle accelerator, you build a fly's eye detector and watch the natural particle collisions.
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Whatever this question is asking:\n\nIt sounds like a great idea, good luck with that.
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Sorry, but creativity and destruction are inextricably linked, especially where humans are concerned.\n\nThe only way to do it would be to destroy the destroyers, and that would pretty much defeat the purpose, wouldn't it?
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The apocalypse is a story designed to scare people into the pews.. It's a fanciful nightmarish rant about "end times" created to make people fear "the rapture".. I don't think anyone educated would take anything in it seriously.. Don't let an ORGANIZED SPEARHEAD OF PROPAGANDA "sell you a bill of goods..
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it could work!\n\nbut only until you got human beings involved.\n\nthere are no utopias...
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My south is social genocide on one side and golf courses and $300,000.00 houses on the other. I worry about the environment too, but I'm afraid I may be the only one.  Check out hydrogen power and spread the word to your friends.  It will save our planet if we act.  Also, adaptation is our only means of survival...those who fear change perish....infuse modernity with all things natural...see what you come up with.
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Good question but I have to say that messing with the universe is rather impulsive and risky. Perhaps we should look to simpler projects like over population or world peace?\n\n*wink*
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Sounds like a good choise to me. As in the near future with the cost of petrol going up continually, people wont be able to afford to run a car!
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Well astronomers think the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating, so what you are proposing probably will never come to pass.  Anyway for a civilization to survive a "big crunch" if it happened, would have to far far far more advanced then anything we could possibly imagine.
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In an ideal world, that would be great.  Unfortunately, that kind of reality is probably thousands of years away.\n\nJust like in Star Trek, we probably won't see that until aliens land, and show us exactly how primitive and violent we really are.  As long as we think we are the only civilization in the universe, there is little likelihood for improvement.\n\nI believe society is moving that way, but again, that's going to take hundreds of generations for us to evolve further.\n\nAnd if the aliens land and give us a book, don't go with them, "It's a cookbook!"
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Well if your objective is to kill everybody and everything........I'm thinking you are too late.....so to answer your question......uhm no.\n\nBut if flooding the valley will bring life back to the vegetation and by doing so brings back the animal life to the area.......go for it! But I am so not feeding the coyotes when you do. Its your turn, I fed them last time. *sigh*