State of the Game

Good morning Thread.
Need coffein and brain.
It's still rainy outside and if it was for me it could very well rain all day.
It's the local fete (AKA the worse than death) today - nothing sadder & more English than watching damp morrismen splashing about in a puddle, and the pint glass refilling with rainwater.

On the plus side the nieces are in town so I have an excuse to play with the lego pirate ship. 🏴‍☠️
 
In paleo, the biggest is almost always a fan favourite! Jokes aside, Mark Whitton is an excellent source of paleo art and discussion, I have lost a few afternoons to his blog posts on many aspects of paleo art and reconstruction.
it is a favorite of mine due to the secret it's flying abilities hold imo - there is something very special about this pterosaur's flight, which isn't discovered yet.
 
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To the latter - dolphins are rather intelligent conscious creatures as well, but they won't achieve space flight or colonize another planet. They won't send out signals which could be picked up in other star systems. It is intelligent conscious life, yes, but not sophisticated enough to be a spacefaring species.
Not a Douglas Adams fan, eh?

Sure, they won't, and even if a descendent gets smart enough that will constitute speciation (this is not unreasonable, there wasn't an ape smarter than a dolphin a couple of million years ago). And yes, this new dolphin still won't, because their environment is not suited to industrial tasks, but quite frankly we have yet to get a member of our species outside the gravity well of our own planet and back again so how spacefaring can humans claim to be?
 
Not a Douglas Adams fan, eh?

Sure, they won't, and even if a descendent gets smart enough that will constitute speciation (this is not unreasonable, there wasn't an ape smarter than a dolphin a couple of million years ago). And yes, this new dolphin still won't, because their environment is not suited to industrial tasks, but quite frankly we have yet to get a member of our species outside the gravity well of our own planet and back again so how spacefaring can humans claim to be?
i never said we would be, nor do I believe for a second that we would be able to survive for long outside of the magnetic field of our earth, which protects us from the harsh radiation.Elon Musk's idea of colonizing Mars has in my opinion not a good chance to become a human backup - radiation would make them steril rather quickly.
 
Elon Musk is full of it.
he is right with a lot of things, but this Mars idea is just nuts - he is right though, that a backup somewhere would be necessary if we would want to survive as a species for a longer time - but it doesn't look like we would even make it to 3 million years as the genus homo, so there is no point, we are misfits and really bad survivors. We lost in the game of life, because we are really terrible players.
 
he is right with a lot of things, but this Mars idea is just nuts - he is right though, that a backup somewhere would be necessary if we would want to survive as a species for a longer time - but it doesn't look like we would even make it to 3 million years as the genus homo, so there is no point, we are misfits and really bad survivors. We lost in the game of life, because we are really terrible players.
I wouldn't give up on us just yet. Once we evolve past social media and cute animal memes I think we'll be OK.
Oh! and stop killing each other.
 
I wouldn't give up on us just yet. Once we evolve past social media and cute animal memes I think we'll be OK.
Oh! and stop killing each other.
i have given up - we aren't able to stop growth rates because we depend on them and no one wants to change this. We are so focused on maintaining our way of life, which isn't sustainable and that means in the end that we aren't sustainable either. There is no chance, we are too selfish and too stupid to get this right. Even bacteria have better strategies to deal with situations, where they are near to exhausting all resources - for them that is a permanent problem and they have ways to deal with it - like dissolving themselves in vast amounts to ease the situation - this would be massively reducing the amount of people if we would do it like that - then the remaining bacteria grow much more slowly towards the saturation border, but stop their growth just below reaching it and get into a sustainable state there - a whole lot go dormant, others keep up the matrix of the biofilm, which protects them - but mankind never really had to face the saturation border and we are like lemmings happily running towards it just to jump into the abyss then.
 
i have given up - we aren't able to stop growth rates because we depend on them and no one wants to change this. We are so focused on maintaining our way of life, which isn't sustainable and that means in the end that we aren't sustainable either. There is no chance, we are too selfish and too stupid to get this right. Even bacteria have better strategies to deal with situations, where they are near to exhausting all resources - for them that is a permanent problem and they have ways to deal with it - like dissolving themselves in vast amounts to ease the situation - this would be massively reducing the amount of people if we would do it like that - then the remaining bacteria grow much more slowly towards the saturation border, but stop their growth just below reaching it and get into a sustainable state there - a whole lot go dormant, others keep up the matrix of the biofilm, which protects them - but mankind never really had to face the saturation border and we are like lemmings happily running towards it just to jump into the abyss then.
Don't get too upset, it's all part of evolution. Make too many mistakes and something will come along to put us in our place and reduce our number. We are pretty new at this don't forget.

Lemming don't do that. Blame Walt Disney for this myth.
 
Don't get too upset, it's all part of evolution. Make too many mistakes and something will come along to put us in our place and reduce our number. We are pretty new at this don't forget.

Lemming don't do that. Blame Walt Disney for this myth.
you know i am really thinking about if we should use the opportunity we have to create artificial super intelligence and let them take over - they might have a chance and it might be a step in evolution to go from biological life to artificial life - it would possibly be our end, but we could give rise to a new kind of species - but then I'm really afraid of doing that as well. We will never be able to understand them and they are likely to see us as parasites not worth having around. Still, there is an opportunity to do something exceptional.
 
Maybe it went to it's long lost wings? :unsure:
Whaddya mean "long lost"??
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