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hunter

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18. Trilobites were tough too.

Reply to AverageJoe90 (Reply #17)

Mon Jul 29, 2013, 05:58 PM

Jul 2013

They survived for 270 million years. Modern industrial humans, not even close...

Cali, above, expressed it as a glass half full situation... It's not. Our sort of intelligence is still an empty glass. It might even be a broken glass that will never be filled.

Check back in a few million years and maybe we can say how "hardy" humans are. Until then it's just a wild guess.

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Book rec for the "sky is falling" crowd. [View all] FSogol Jul 2013 OP

lol. that may be the funniest glass half full reference ever cali Jul 2013 #1

"But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world." NuclearDem Jul 2013 #2

Everything old is new again! FSogol Jul 2013 #4

Mass extinction? HappyMe Jul 2013 #3

There have been survivors, LWolf Jul 2013 #5

The cockroaches will rule! Fuddnik Jul 2013 #6

So be it. dipsydoodle Jul 2013 #9

Woops, not everywhere. longship Jul 2013 #28

Not if the human survivors have a good supply of Raid. n/t RebelOne Jul 2013 #33

Present company excepted, of course... MineralMan Jul 2013 #7

I'd take a more moderate approach. LWolf Jul 2013 #11

I see. Well, then... MineralMan Jul 2013 #13

But I don't. LWolf Jul 2013 #14

Well, OK, then. MineralMan Jul 2013 #15

The solution is actually to *expand* choice--particularly for women. antigone382 Jul 2013 #22

That's one viable strategy, anyway. LWolf Jul 2013 #25

To fit with the theme of the OP book recommendation csziggy Jul 2013 #8

Great site, thanks. n/t FSogol Jul 2013 #24

"You call what's goin' on around here a leak? Boy, the last time there was a leak like this . . . Major Hogwash Jul 2013 #10

Twinkies and roaches... one_voice Jul 2013 #12

plus sharks and arely staircase Jul 2013 #21

Humans are just another animal species circling the drain. hunter Jul 2013 #16

Not much chance of us going extinct...... AverageJoe90 Jul 2013 #17

Trilobites were tough too. hunter Jul 2013 #18

Apples and oranges, my friend. Apples and oranges. n/t AverageJoe90 Jul 2013 #19

It's not, and that's exactly where the human race has gone wrong. hunter Jul 2013 #29

Maybe so, but we are still truly unique. You can't deny that. AverageJoe90 Jul 2013 #31

No, we are creatures that adapt our environment like no other muriel_volestrangler Jul 2013 #36

I suspect nearly all periods of rapid climate change in earth's history... hunter Jul 2013 #37

If you can't outright deny climate change, you'll say the change is no big deal CreekDog Jul 2013 #27

That wasn't my intent behind that post and you damn well know it. AverageJoe90 Jul 2013 #30

don't try to make it about me. you disagree and minimize every specific climate change topic CreekDog Jul 2013 #34

CD, where did I mention climate change in that post? AverageJoe90 Jul 2013 #35

Either the book or the review is a bit confused muriel_volestrangler Jul 2013 #20

Still would be quite the scary scene, though. AverageJoe90 Jul 2013 #32

there's a joke about a guy that's scared about the sun exploding Enrique Jul 2013 #23

"Scatter" is the stupidest advice out there Warpy Jul 2013 #26