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More comparing geophysical theories to French cuisine Steve, if you will.

Throw in a Star Wars reference and CTB will be wobbling at the knees.

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Steve Lea wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:

Steve Lea wrote: The earth is a dynamic system and we're just trundling around in the skin on top of the creme brulee.

Another analogy like that and you'll have the key to CTB's heart.

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gaia?

gaia or gaga, one of the two!

The earth will look after itself, not us..

gaia. i think that's how you spell it. mind you i am getting quite inebriated right now, is the theory that earth is a living being, and will only tolerate of for so long. it was an ok scientific theory until the new agers got hold of it.

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

Steve Lea wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:

Steve Lea wrote: The earth is a dynamic system and we're just trundling around in the skin on top of the creme brulee.

Another analogy like that and you'll have the key to CTB's heart.

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gaia?

gaia or gaga, one of the two!

The earth will look after itself, not us..

gaia. i think that's how you spell it. mind you i am getting quite inebriated right now, is the theory that earth is a living being, and will only tolerate of for so long. it was an ok scientific theory until the new agers got hold of it.

That's right - gaia - the earth has the capacity to look after itself and will ditch us if it has to to survive. Wasnt there a film where most life was wiped out by an ice age and black lotus flowers started growing everywhere to trap heat and warm the earth up again?

Aren't you thinking ( or maybe the movie makers were thinking) of daisyworld ?

RE: Gaia..... Heard some US standup comedian on radio one night....said the smartest thing ever in the midst of a damned god tirade against treehuggers.....

"the only idea more ludicrous and arrogant than that we could save the planet, is that we could do it any harm in the first place"

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote: More comparing geophysical theories to French cuisine Steve, if you will.

Throw in a Star Wars reference and CTB will be wobbling at the knees.

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Hmm...how about coprolite au gratin?! Ask CTB how that might taste.....

Steve Campbell wrote: Aren't you thinking ( or maybe the movie makers were thinking) of daisyworld ?

RE: Gaia..... Heard some US standup comedian on radio one night....said the smartest thing ever in the midst of a damned god tirade against treehuggers.....

"the only idea more ludicrous and arrogant than that we could save the planet, is that we could do it any harm in the first place"

Must have been based on that then, not high budget as I recall, bit like Quatermass..

Stargate is crap. Thats all I can say on the matter.

Steve Lea wrote:

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote: More comparing geophysical theories to French cuisine Steve, if you will.

Throw in a Star Wars reference and CTB will be wobbling at the knees.

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Hmm...how about coprolite au gratin?! Ask CTB how that might taste.....

A nice steaming bowl of magma l'orange for dessert perhaps?

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Steve Campbell wrote:

RE: Gaia..... Heard some US standup comedian on radio one night....said the smartest thing ever in the midst of a damned god tirade against treehuggers.....

"the only idea more ludicrous and arrogant than that we could save the planet, is that we could do it any harm in the first place"

george carlin.

That would explain why it's not funny. Also explains why he doesn't know jack.

i don't know about "advanced civilizations" by some definitions... but there has been 5000 to 10000 years of human civilization, and things have changed so many times and ways but people are almost exactly the same... it is even hard to known for sure what happened 100-200 years ago and relate to how people lived ... 5000 is a hella long time

pumped full of drugs wrote: i don't know about "advanced civilizations" by some definitions... but there has been 5000 to 10000 years of human civilization, and things have changed so many times and ways but people are almost exactly the same... it is even hard to known for sure what happened 100-200 years ago and relate to how people lived ... 5000 is a hella long time

then there's the question of what an "advanced civilisation" actually is. is a hunter gather civilisation that is perfectly adapted to its environment, or one like ours, which is seemingly hell bent on destroying itself.

on a lighter note how can a society be called advanced, if you can't hear new order?

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote:

Steve Lea wrote:

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote: More comparing geophysical theories to French cuisine Steve, if you will.

Throw in a Star Wars reference and CTB will be wobbling at the knees.

:\pimp3:

Hmm...how about coprolite au gratin?! Ask CTB how that might taste.....

A nice steaming bowl of magma l'orange for dessert perhaps?

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Thought desert was the creme brulee?! How about some Tasiusarsuaq gneiss cream smothered in radiolarian ooze??

Sounds mouthwatering I admit, but I'm on a diet.

Plate after plate of tectonics.

Sometimes drenched in a little red wine subduction. Gives it that nice piquancy.

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[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote: Sounds mouthwatering I admit, but I'm on a diet.

Plate after plate of tectonics.

Sometimes drenched in a little red wine subduction. Gives it that nice piquancy.

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Lubrication helps many things go that much better!

Comrade Shampanyov wrote: That would explain why it's not funny. Also explains why he doesn't know jack.

actually, i completely agree with him. the earth can regenerate itself. humans are expendable and we can be destroyed much more easily than earth can.

AgentWood wrote:

Comrade Shampanyov wrote: That would explain why it's not funny. Also explains why he doesn't know jack.

actually, i completely agree with him. the earth can regenerate itself. humans are expendable and we can be destroyed much more easily than earth can.

true, i agree. there i think is evidence of at least three cataclysmic events in the life of the earth. each time life survived, but much changed. to think that we as a species are irreplaceable as the top of the food chain is shier arrogance.

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

true, i agree. there i think is evidence of at least three cataclysmic events in the life of the earth. each time life survived, but much changed. to think that we as a species are irreplaceable as the top of the food chain is shier arrogance.

The big one was at the end of the Permian about 250 million years ago, just about the same time as the Siberian flood basalts were pissing out. The K-T event was small in comparison... The next big whammy that will probably challenge the human race is maybe not an asteroid strike but a sudden reversal of the earth's magnetic field, so that the north pole becomes the south pole etc. Its happened very frequently in the past. All you pigeon fanciers beware!

Steve Lea wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

true, i agree. there i think is evidence of at least three cataclysmic events in the life of the earth. each time life survived, but much changed. to think that we as a species are irreplaceable as the top of the food chain is shier arrogance.

The big one was at the end of the Permian about 250 million years ago, just about the same time as the Siberian flood basalts were pissing out. The K-T event was small in comparison... The next big whammy that will probably challenge the human race is maybe not an asteroid strike but a sudden reversal of the earth's magnetic field, so that the north pole becomes the south pole etc. Its happened very frequently in the past. All you pigeon fanciers beware!

does that mean that any survivors will be planted on an island and chased around by a big black cloud, i tell yer id be lost if it happened to me.

Steve Lea wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

true, i agree. there i think is evidence of at least three cataclysmic events in the life of the earth. each time life survived, but much changed. to think that we as a species are irreplaceable as the top of the food chain is shier arrogance.

The big one was at the end of the Permian about 250 million years ago, just about the same time as the Siberian flood basalts were pissing out. The K-T event was small in comparison... The next big whammy that will probably challenge the human race is maybe not an asteroid strike but a sudden reversal of the earth's magnetic field, so that the north pole becomes the south pole etc. Its happened very frequently in the past. All you pigeon fanciers beware!

Then we'll see who's livin' in the land down under.

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i think it may be about time that CTB offered us his professional opinion again.

I'm wondering if it's a coincidence that he's been absent since Stevo mentioned creme brulee.

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if you think of DNA as the lifeform of this planet things make more sense (have a search on "the selfhish gene").

We, and all the other animals and plants are to DNA what aircraft carriers, cities and even one day starships are to us. DNA builds itself into communities known as creatures.

Steve Campbell wrote: if you think of DNA as the lifeform of this planet things make more sense (have a search on "the selfhish gene").

We, and all the other animals and plants are to DNA what aircraft carriers, cities and even one day starships are to us. DNA builds itself into communities known as creatures.

steve you really should use a spellchecker. a man of your abilities should have no problems in finding one.

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

Steve Campbell wrote: if you think of DNA as the lifeform of this planet things make more sense (have a search on "the selfhish gene").

We, and all the other animals and plants are to DNA what aircraft carriers, cities and even one day starships are to us. DNA builds itself into communities known as creatures.

steve you really should use a spellchecker. a man of your abilities should have no problems in finding one.

But its only natural to start slurring after the 11 o'clock g and t's..!

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote: I'm wondering if it's a coincidence that he's been absent since Stevo mentioned creme brulee.

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Still creaming something else is he?!

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

steve you really should use a spellchecker. a man of your abilities should have no problems in finding one.

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Steve Lea wrote:

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote: I'm wondering if it's a coincidence that he's been absent since Stevo mentioned creme brulee.

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Still creaming something else is he?!

Erm, not exactly - just been a bit crook. I think I might have been somwhat misrepresented as the Gastronomy Domine here CTB

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

steve you really should use a spellchecker. a man of your abilities should have no problems in finding one.

Need to find one that plugs into opera on gentoo linux, may be tricky (and even if i bothered with windows, I bet any spelling plugins u can get for internet exploiter either weigh 400MB, or cost money or come with their own builtin vir.)

Besides for every time my spelling lets me down my typing lets me down 20 times.

CTB wrote:

Steve Lea wrote:

[orange]depthcharge[/orange] wrote: I'm wondering if it's a coincidence that he's been absent since Stevo mentioned creme brulee.

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Still creaming something else is he?!

Erm, not exactly - just been a bit crook. I think I might have been somwhat misrepresented as the Gastronomy Domine here CTB

Hope the coprolite wasn't off?!