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SoftRevolution
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Posted - 2008.09.10 12:36:00 -
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Edited by: SoftRevolution on 10/09/2008 12:37:19
 Originally by: Liberator 1
Edited by: Liberator 1 on 10/09/2008 07:52:10
There should be a list of problems that we, humanity should attempt to solve. It starts like this:
1. Stop people dying from lack of water/clean water.
2. Feed the starving.
3. Stop people from dying of entirely preventable diseases like TB,flu,diarrhoea etc.
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345. Go back to the moon.
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567. Go to Mars.
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894. Build a giant particle accelerator to answer a question most people don't care about much less understand so some scientists can go 'Oh yeah, thats why we have mass then.'
We are doomed, not because it will make a black hole and destroy the Earth, but because we are too stupid to save ourselves.
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
To be fair the LHC costs nearly a quarter of the spending increase needed to reach all of the MDG's per year (+18b globally).
It's hard to see what, if any, pressing need the LHC meets.
Taking steps to reduce global poverty OTOH would make the world a safer place.
To be fair defence spending in particular areas looks like a far bigger waste of money at present time... although the way Russia are going maybe in a few years having a head start on bleeding their economy to death with another arms race will seem like a good thing.
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SoftRevolution
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Posted - 2008.09.10 12:41:00 -
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Edited by: SoftRevolution on 10/09/2008 12:41:42
They have a working fusion power plant? That puts out more power than goes in?
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SoftRevolution
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Posted - 2008.09.10 12:51:00 -
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Unless I'm being dim, it appears Iter is another experimental project with no guarantee of actually achieving that objective. The timeline on their website which may or may not be hopelessly optimistic has work on the first commercial fusion power plant starting in 42 years time.
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SoftRevolution
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Posted - 2008.09.10 12:58:00 -
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In many cases it is perfectly possible to attach conditions to aid.
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/prsp.htm
This works more than it doesn't.
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SoftRevolution
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Posted - 2008.09.10 15:53:00 -
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Edited by: SoftRevolution on 10/09/2008 15:55:02
Originally by: Reven Cordelle
Originally by: kor anon
The earth is already overpopulated, ~5x the amount our planet can handle. Not to sound callous but i call for WW3
Either that or a good old fashioned, roman-style culling.
Yes.
We should start with the fat and the useless first though, right?  |
SoftRevolution
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Posted - 2008.09.10 18:01:00 -
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Originally by: Sharupak
Ok, what makes you so sure you guys would be chosen over being wiped off the map?
It wont work that way, because the people that "run" the culling or disease launching or war are going to make sure they and their buddies and their children no matter how ******ed, exist at the end of the day.
That was pretty much my point.
Social darwinist types who think the world operates as any kind of meritocracy are deluded.
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