Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "TED" channel.

  1. Sure it could, and most of it would add to his case.
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  2. writerconsidered He's not ignoring anything he's comparing to the past, it's called perspective. Do you have any idea what a REAL WAR is like. During Vietnam it was an endless stream of nightly news of horrific bloody battles and an endless parade of body bags unloading from cargo planes, some 55,000 total US service men and 20 times as many on the other side for that Christian inspired atrocity. How many have we lost in recent yr.s in these so called 'wars'? Back then city smog burned the eyes, stunk and gagged, it was lethal. US rivers were so polluted they would catch on fire. Our cities were burning down from race riots and the war over the war in Vietnam, the nation was coming apart at the seams and domestic terrorism was constant. The homicide rate was double or triple. No question we should be focused on our still significant problems but recent history is a useful reflection.
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  3. Just keep the Goddamned Christians away. :D
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  4. Rodger THAT. I'm 62 so don't feel sorry for yourself. But I think I be 42. :D
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  5. Wake Up You make hysterical assertions with NOTHING to back it up. I've been around over half a century and things were FAR WORSE in the 1960's when America was coming apart at the seams, cities were burning from race riots and the war against the war in Vietnam, or the '70's when terrorism was 10 times more frequent, murder rate at least double, mass starvation the norm in many parts of the world, we were constantly worried about "today maybe the end of the world" as nuclear holocaust was always imminent....or the '80's when inflation was up to 14% and unemployment rampant. Travel was far more dangerous. Or how about earlier when polio killed and crippled children everywhere in the USA, I saw the results and it wasn't pretty. We have it so damned easy today it's laughable to compare. Things are far from perfect and it's fine to focus on our problems and flaws but tell a gay or a black person that things are WORSE now. Get a grip! Do you have any idea what the environment was like prior to the 1980's? Our rivers (in the USA) were so polluted they would catch on fire, city smog gagged you and burned the eyes it was thick, stinky and brown, and lethal, acid rain was rampant, on and on.
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  6. Do you have any idea what the environment was like prior to the 1980's? Our rivers (in the USA) were so polluted they would catch on fire, city smog gagged you and burned the eyes it was thick, stinky and brown, acid rain was rampant, on and on.
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  7. NO ONE KNOWS what 1/3 G will do to the human body. We only have two data points, 1G and zero G, in between is anyone's guess. Artificial gravity for the trip seems to me the obvious choice however.
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  8. Isaac McDaniel The anti-communist crusade was an American holly war against "those godless commies", it wasn't that we didn't like their economic system which was certain to implode on it's own eventually. The cold war was largely religious based. What did you think it was about?
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  9. lily flower Wrong. He's looking at global numbers. Historically things were far worse, pick your time frame. The poor rich divide doesn't say anything about how the poor are doing now compared to previously, a wealthy person getting wealthier doesn't make everyone else less well off.
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  10. You need a bigger screen.
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  11.  @sadikrahman4668  USA has more oil than it knows what to do with, already number one producer on Earth and expected to double in the foreseeable future.
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  12. Fantastic fabric. :D (yes I picked something trivial, just say'n)
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  13. Plus hollow Mars, M-Chemtrails and devious dust storms caused by Freemason Quad-lateral Commission Zionist Agenda 22 Rockefeller's.
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  14. Kids. You have no concept how difficult it's going to be but I'm all for it. Be some fine reality TV as the first colony(ies) inevitably struggle and die off. That's how we learn and progress, early explorers always die young. Think of living off the land on Antarctica and multiply it by a 1000X more difficult.
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  15. ???
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  16. The press, priests and politicians all profit on alarm and prognostications of imminent doom.
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  17. Mr_Reb3llion Many beliefs demand to be insulted, it's deadly not to call them out on their treacherous bullshit. Being offended or insulted is trivial, one owns their own 'offendedness'.
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  18. Absolutely zero reason to think any outside intelligence has altered genetics on Earth. If anything this vid could be the 'solution' to the Fermi Paradox, nothing new here but technological civilizations may be inherently unstable and short lived.
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  19. @Mr. Glass If one follows stock market most of that is well know yesteryears news except the prediction of doubling production from here which comes from an oil CEO who has made bold accurate predictions in the past and knows what he's talking about. (the 'more than we know what to do with' was just for fun of course but it's literally true for NatGas which actually has negative value often in the fracking areas)
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  20. Kat Does Stuff You didn't know? Yes they celebrate the death of soldiers at their funerals. It's simply Christianity at it's ultimate conclusion.
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  21. But only humans could save it from massive evolutionary resets from cosmic impacts.
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  22.  @ThekiBoran  You don't know ANYTHING about evolution. Do you get your "education" from the most cynical, evil manipulative force in the history of humanity?--aka., Christian bullshit sites?
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  23. Yeah Mars will be 1000 times harder than living off the land on Antarctica...that said--GO FOR IT Dudes!! We will watch from paradise Earth on TV as you struggle and die, we will learn and someday get it right. GO PIONEERS!!!
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  24. Daryl Buck izzz Trinity Valour indeed! "Everything WE know is WRONG." How do you know that? Yup, that too is wrong by you, hmmm?
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  25. Parikshit Upadhyaya It was OK, nothing profound or new even.
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  26. No mention of climate SCIENCE what so ever?? Actual science, not clickbait media driven hyperbolic headlines and numbers you don't know where they came from.
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  27. Australia might be grateful for that much fresh water, I know California could use some.
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  28. Before we believe YOU that's for sure.
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  29.  @Parasmunt  Depends how far back you care to consider. No question we have done sever damage but we have seen it worse in America, before the EPA existed American rivers were often so polluted with industrial waste that they would catch on fire. Remember that? I do.
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  30.  @Parasmunt  Entropy has exactly NOTHING to do with it. That's a laughably false notion for folks who don't understand what entropy IS. As long as the sun shines the entropy of Earth can continuously DECREASE. The entropy of the universe as a WHOLE can only increase but that says nothing about any non-isolate part of it.
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  31.  @Parasmunt  The entropy of Earth can continuously decrease as I said before. Earth is in NO WAY a closed system. Yes we have done a lot of damage and consumed some resources we can not currently easily replace. I imagine I'm as horrified as you about what we are doing to the Amazon Jungle, oceans, on and on. HOWEVER--cosmic origin catastrophes that cause extinction events even far greater than what humanity has caused are likely much more common than generally thought. Not only the dinosaurs but even as recent as the Younger Dryas extinction event only some 12.5k yr.s ago, we currently have the technology to prevent. (we haven't quite developed it just yet but likely we will before it's too late, no guarantees obviously) It's a bit too Gaia Hypothesis for me but it's an interesting concept that man was 'meant' to prevent the next comet/asteroid killer impact. (some have suggested) But for sure it's likely that humanity will redeem ourselves by preventing the NEXT mass extinction event even much bigger than the one we have already caused and much of that damage may have been necessary to get us to that place where we can be the ultimate PROTECTORS of biodiversity. Make sense? (I'm not looking for an argument and largely agree with much of what you say, I'm only suggesting some complexity and another angle)
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  32. YOU may be a slave, I'm not.
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  33. Like what?
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  34. Doesn't 4:35 show a supernova?? That's not the fate of our star.
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  35. @Jacob Zondag It balloons up engulfing the inner planets then shrinks down and fades away. It's several times too small to go supernova. There seem to be a lot of careless misleading elements in the presentation, not a great job.
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  36. @Jacob Zondag Supernova's are one of the most violent happenings in the universe, they briefly outshine an entire galaxy of 100's of billions of stars combined, we can see them across the universe. They also create most of the heavy elements where as the sun stops at iron which is too stable to easily fuse and ends the process unless the mass is great enough whence supernovas happen. Those explosions inject huge areas with all the elements we and Earth are made of. The old saying 'we are star dust' is literally true. Some of the heaviest elements are probably not created even in supernovas however, gold, platinum group, etc., are probably only created in neutron stars colliding with eachother...my current understanding anyway. About once per century or so we can expect a supernova in our galaxy, the nearest one ready to detonate, many times the size of the sun(sometimes pronounced 'Beatle juice')is the orange looking star in the Orion constellation and expected to detonate soon, with in a million yr.s or so, it's axis of rotation is fortunately not lined up with us or we could be in trouble with that one, could sterilize Earth, strip the atmosphere, as they emit extreme jets of high energy radiation from the poles. This is the reason that the galactic "habitable zone" is considered not near the center of the galaxy where stars are dense and explosions relatively common. ((pardon if that's TMI))
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  37.  @jackpleb2360  Certain conditions are required for a supernova to be possible, the sun is vastly too small, so unless you can come up with a scenario to merge a dozen or two more common size stars into the sun it's NOT POSSIBLE. How can you be commenting on this and not know that??
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  38.  @jackpleb2360  Yeah it was even known back in the '50's that the sun cannot go supernova, it's a function of mass, most stars are not big enough but that still leaves perhaps billions in a large galaxy that WILL eventually explode. This physics has been understood to that extent for over half a century. May I suggest a link or two that explains the basics? This guy is very watchable, clear and concise and has quite a few excellent vids on the topic. https://youtu.be/rdgOkSKPP1Y
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  39. And you are STILL that simple?
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  40. Not everyone is so childishly self centered.
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  41. Clarence Trumble-Lovegod Religions don't tolerate competition, Communism has been THE religion where it has been practiced.
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  42. A Baller It sure beats the bullshit Gold Standard.
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  43. The new "Martians" will appreciate Earth for sure, it's going to be a desolate, dismal and likely desperate existence on Mars. We ARE vulnerable, cheers to those taking it to another world and I hope a few of you survive more than a year.
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  44. Do you know what scientific theory IS?
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  45. It never occurred to God to simply prevent wars from happening.
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  46.  @Ciscodays  Nope. Regardless all powerful equals ALL RESPONSIBLE. No getting around it.
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  47.  @garman1966  Not quite that long, but yeah....forget about Tinder, you'll already know TOO WELL any available females and loathe the stale air they breath.
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  48. He said that several times, watch the vid before commenting?
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  49. Ten years later and still getting worse. Far too many blue collar jobs for the qualified folks available, not even enough truck drivers let alone welders, carpenters, etc.
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  50. The WBC lost it's only attractive, decent intelligent member. Can we bomb what's left now? :D
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