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Off Topic / Re: The End of the World

« on: June 18, 2009, 11:55:22 PM »

Or wasn't destroyed along with numerous other artifacts when the Spaniard conquistadors invaded.

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Games / Re: Ghostbusters Returns!

« on: June 18, 2009, 11:44:10 PM »

I have it for the 360 so I don't have the lag issue. But i know what you mean. The thing I'm not too big a fan of is how quickly a person can die, even on the easiest setting and have to rely on the other Ghostbusters who at the time seem more concerned with the ghosts than they do me, so they die as well and the mission fails. But at least they fixed the issue with the exclusive bling proton pack and now I can look rather out of place in central park. :D

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Off Topic / Re: The End of the World

« on: June 18, 2009, 11:37:53 PM »

I would see that part happening much like it did on Doctor who: Series 2, Season 1, Ep 2: The end of the world. Just a bunch of rich folk sitting, waiting for the planet to burn up. Then some idiot release barriers keeping them alive and thus killing them.

Never saw that. Sounds a lot like the Nicholas Cage movie "Knowing" People knew the world was ending and they all started hugging and junk. I'd probably be in the process of something a bit more intimate with the first cute woman i came across.

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Off Topic / Re: The End of the World

« on: June 18, 2009, 11:30:49 PM »

Yeah, that we can agree on, the earth is toast when the sun goes nova. It'd be interesting to be there to watch it happen considering we've survived somehow to prevent it.

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Off Topic / Re: The End of the World

« on: June 18, 2009, 11:23:54 PM »

Yet it is hardly enough to affect it's already vast size. I doubt it would be enough considering it could hold millions of earths in it we are only 1% of the sun's volume and only 1/332,000 of it's mass.

True. However, it is enough to throw it into a decaying orbit, to say little of how long that will last before it's been burned up completely. might not even make a full revolution.

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Off Topic / Re: The End of the World

« on: June 18, 2009, 11:16:15 PM »

But you forget about what gravity is. It is the force of concentrated mass in one area attracting another bit of concentrated mass. Since the sun would be expanded, still containing roughly the same mass, it will have less of a gravitational pull. Since the expansion would be slow, it would not force the earth away so it would just slowly push the earth out of it's self. Unfortunately, not in time for it to melt away to nothing.

But you also have to remember the mass it gains as it does grow. Space may be mostly empty, but not completely. The earth gains 10 tons in mass each year from cosmic dust alone. The sun will have gobbled up Mercury and Venus by the time it gets to us.

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Off Topic / Re: The End of the World

« on: June 18, 2009, 11:06:21 PM »

it would be more of a liquid clump of rock that orbits the inside until it eventually melts away to nothing.

Yeah, a slow form of incineration but I doubt it will continue the orbit as the sun's gravity will draw it to the core.

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Off Topic / Re: THE END OF THE WORLD

« on: June 18, 2009, 11:04:35 PM »

Rughugger, whether you like it or not, your whole belief of God stems from what others have believed in the past. If you were totally isolated from civilization for your whole life, you would have come up with your own ideas for the creation of the universe.

The same is said for your beliefs as well. Whether or not I choose to believe in God isn't really up to you, nor do I care to convert you, which is why I haven't pushed any of that stuff on you in the first place, so your assumption about all religious people is in itself is flawed and should be re-evaluated. Just be satisfied that I'm taking the high road and trying to help you understand what I'm thinking rather than just to continue bashing you.

My whole argument for this thread was simply that there is no more evidence for religion Vs. scientists to prove that either is completely true short of actually building a time machine and going back to find out for sure. Until then, everything is mere speculation and is subject to human interpretation which, as a lot of literature has proven, is filled with misconceptions and erroneous judgments all based on bad translations and things people decided was wrong and changed to make more sense to them. Nothing more.

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Off Topic / Re: The End of the World

« on: June 18, 2009, 10:53:39 PM »

Well not literally blow of the world.  Kill everything on it.  Sorry for misunderstanding.

Well when the sun goes into it's red giant state it will envelop the earth and incinerate it. No more Earth. *shrugs*

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Off Topic / Re: THE END OF THE WORLD

« on: June 18, 2009, 10:51:20 PM »

Okay then, what is your religion?

And I was not expecting to you assume that I was an expert on the subject, I wanted to make it clear I had strong feelings about it.

Yes, I believe in god, but I am not all that observant. I believe that man's interpretation of god's word has become seriously flawed and misconceived to the point where I don't follow a true mainstream church, although a fellow by the name of Joel Osteen has it as close as I can accept it for a form of truth.

An example of my thoughts on the misinterpretations are as follows. The bible states the Earth was created in 6 days. Man has done tests to show it's been more like 6 billion years. God is eternal, so why would he need to work on a basis of time if he's always around and always there? Who is to say that 6 days of "god time doesn't equal 6 billion years? No one knows really. It's just human arrogance to assume god works on rules set by man and it's human error to think that god is flawed based on a book written by people who thought they knew what he was saying.

Confusing? Yeah, a little, but as I said, God is god, he'll always be there. I had a fallout and stopped believing for a while, myself. I blamed him, people and life for all the problems that I've encountered and it never made me any happier. But now, I'm back in and things have been going great for me once I took responsibility for my own problems.

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Off Topic / Re: THE END OF THE WORLD

« on: June 18, 2009, 10:40:02 PM »

And Rughugger, don't get me started on religious intolerance.

Right, because you're an expert. Why teach the master?   Also, have you ever thought to ask me exactly what it is I believe in? No, you assumed in what I believe in and you assumed how heavy that infatuation was and got it wrong.

Remember what happens when you assume kiddies: (Ass/u/me) You make an ass out of you and me.

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Off Topic / Re: THE END OF THE WORLD

« on: June 18, 2009, 10:34:36 PM »

Your posts in this thread really do not show an open mind. You're right about my maturity. I am only fifteen years old, but one can gain a lot of wisdom in those fifteen years. I will die a happy man knowing that religion has been phased out.

More intolerance. Someone knows they're loosing an argument and is desperately trying to side-step the topic at hand.
And I was speaking about blockbuilderman when I was referring about maturity. Way to take it personal when it wasn't about you.

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Off Topic / Re: THE END OF THE WORLD

« on: June 18, 2009, 10:28:06 PM »

So, you chose to be selfish and not accept the fact that he had a full life, many happy times and experiences, gave you chance for existence and now that he died and is off to an eternity of pure reward for a life serving himself, his family, his country, and his god? Nice to know you can think of others so well.

I never asked what religion your parents were, nor do I care. They aren't part of the discussion. And if you knew me, you'd know for a fact that I have one open mind. I'm simply putting a kid in his place because he has to resort to tired old religious insults that make no valid contribution to a topic at hand and for that, I'm immature. Right. You wouldn't know maturity because you have yet to earn it.

as you Christcigarettes put it. I've had enough with ignorance

No, you choose intolerance instead. Way to show how grown up you are. *applauds sarcastically*

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Off Topic / Re: THE END OF THE WORLD

« on: June 18, 2009, 10:20:45 PM »

So your grandpa died and you blamed a thing you don't believe in. Makes perfect sense.

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Off Topic / Re: The End of the World

« on: June 18, 2009, 10:19:55 PM »

Sun won't blow up until couple million years.  Atomic bombs in World War III would be hideous, world blowing up will probaly be the most logical.

Actually the most likely cause of our civilization ending is through economic collapse and the nuclear war will only result from whatever factions arise out of the desperation to accumulate resources to regain or control what little power they have left. Either way, we'll be dead as a race long before the sun explodes.