Something to make you feel depressed! Sorry about this!

[Robittybob1]

These are the 12 things most likely to destroy the world

http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/techandscience/these-are-the-12-things-most-likely-to-destroy-the-world/ar-BBhLrv6?ocid=UP97DHP#page=12

 

Everyone of them would be the worst nightmare to live through.

[Greg H.]

It seems to me most strange that men should fear,

Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

--Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

No point being depressed about it - given the history of our planet, it was unlikely the human race was going to spin on forever anyway, unless we make a concerted effort to be somewhere else when the next extinction level event happens.

[Phi for All]

It seems to me most strange that men should fear,

Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

--Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

 

No point being depressed about it - given the history of our planet, it was unlikely the human race was going to spin on forever anyway, unless we make a concerted effort to be somewhere else when the next extinction level event happens.

 

I like that. If I may, I'll borrow from the bard as well.

 

There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow an asteroid.

If it be now, 'tis not to come;

if it be not to come, then it will be now;

if it be not now, yet it will come.

The readiness is all.

--Hamlet, William Shakespeare

[MigL]

First Science Forum I've been on where people quote Shakespeare.

[StringJunky]

First Science Forum I've been on where people quote Shakespeare.

Aren't you just glad you're here to see it?

[Phi for All]

Aren't you just glad you're here to see it?

 

I'm glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when I read that.

[StringJunky]

 

I'm glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when I read that.

What would it have been, a new keyboard or phone?

 

We would never share such disparate insights if this was a dry science forum and that's why I can happily live with the forums' rough edges. I see the rough edge as a necessary degree of freedom for stuff like this to happen.

Edited February 20, 2015 by StringJunky