Topic: Line of the day
boof started this discussion 3 weeks ago #135,987
"America is so cursed right now you’d think it was built on a giant indian burial ground."
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 35 minutes later[^] [v] #1,444,122
One time in school I did a report and looked into how many of them died and I think the highest estimate was around 60 million indigenous people died as a result of European contact.
Anonymous B double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 29 seconds later, 36 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,123
So basically: one Mao’s Great Leap Forward worth of cursed.
Anonymous B triple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 7 minutes later, 43 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,124
It was mostly from disease though. It’s nice knowing that technology has reached the point where a disease can’t wipe out a continent ever again.Anonymous B quadruple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 6 minutes later, 50 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,125
It’s kinda funny how we were digging mass graves 6 years ago. With defunding epidemiology and foreign aid from developing countries, absolutely no way a disease with a higher death rate could ever occur and absolutely no way that disease could ever spread to developed countries and kill a bunch of first world people. No way that could ever happen, not in a million years. Were indivisible because we’re rich!
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,138
boof (OP) replied with this 3 weeks ago, 5 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,147
it's the way of the Earth to show us its love
Mr. Bloody Lemonade joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 hour later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,166
@1,444,138 (C)
I love winter so this makes me sad. The only solace I’ve been able to find is that we have a couple of ice moons, Europa and Enceladus. I just have to figure out how to get myself up over there.
I love winter so this makes me sad. The only solace I’ve been able to find is that we have a couple of ice moons, Europa and Enceladus. I just have to figure out how to get myself up over there.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 2 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,167
Also, Titan has lakes and rivers made out of liquid methane, a dense nitrogen atmosphere with higher surface pressure than earth (so if it was the right temperature you could in theory survive without a space suit if you had an oxygen tank), and the crust of the moon is made out of frozen ice water, the mantle is made out of liquid water, and it has cryovolcanoes that erupt liquid water instead of lava. Which sounds really, really cool. If there were alien fish swimming around in the liquid methane we’d be like lava monsters or something.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade triple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 50 seconds later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,168
Sadly it doesn’t seem like there’s life there on the surface at least. I mean we’ve never really put a submarine up there, so we can’t say for sure, but the land… there’s nothing on the land so that’s lame.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 2 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,200
@1,444,122 (B)
> One time in school I did a report and looked into how many of them died and I think the highest estimate was around 60 million indigenous people died as a result of European contact.
South America saw the worst with the Great Dying and follow ons. One of the Mexican die offs was due to e Coli strains from European livestock that had been introduced.
I know modern pretend scholars like to say all this was intentional but the Spanish records show panicked officials facing epidemics and labor shortages. The point of an empire isn’t to rule over empty land.
> One time in school I did a report and looked into how many of them died and I think the highest estimate was around 60 million indigenous people died as a result of European contact.
South America saw the worst with the Great Dying and follow ons. One of the Mexican die offs was due to e Coli strains from European livestock that had been introduced.
I know modern pretend scholars like to say all this was intentional but the Spanish records show panicked officials facing epidemics and labor shortages. The point of an empire isn’t to rule over empty land.
Anonymous E double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,202
@1,444,138 (C)
> The planet is warming faster than the most doomer climate scientists predicted.
Good thing that runaway green house gases didn’t cause three of the Big Five mass extinctions. Oh wait, they did for the End-Permian, End-Triassic, and Late Devonian. Good thing the Bible is more real and Earth is only 5,000 years old.
> The planet is warming faster than the most doomer climate scientists predicted.
Good thing that runaway green house gases didn’t cause three of the Big Five mass extinctions. Oh wait, they did for the End-Permian, End-Triassic, and Late Devonian. Good thing the Bible is more real and Earth is only 5,000 years old.
Anonymous E triple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,203
@1,444,167 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade)
> Also, Titan has lakes and rivers made out of liquid methane, a dense nitrogen atmosphere with higher surface pressure than earth (so if it was the right temperature you could in theory survive without a space suit if you had an oxygen tank), and the crust of the moon is made out of frozen ice water, the mantle is made out of liquid water, and it has cryovolcanoes that erupt liquid water instead of lava. Which sounds really, really cool. If there were alien fish swimming around in the liquid methane we’d be like lava monsters or something.
Titan’s cryovolcanoes combine liquid water with ammonia and methane.
> Also, Titan has lakes and rivers made out of liquid methane, a dense nitrogen atmosphere with higher surface pressure than earth (so if it was the right temperature you could in theory survive without a space suit if you had an oxygen tank), and the crust of the moon is made out of frozen ice water, the mantle is made out of liquid water, and it has cryovolcanoes that erupt liquid water instead of lava. Which sounds really, really cool. If there were alien fish swimming around in the liquid methane we’d be like lava monsters or something.
Titan’s cryovolcanoes combine liquid water with ammonia and methane.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 14 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,204
@1,444,202 (E)
To be fair, that was caused by increased volcanism.
Also: interesting fact, Earth has plate tectonics which release some of the heat that builds up inside the core of the Earth. They used to think that the Earth’s interior is molten because of heat left over from the Earth’s formation, but apparently the natural radioactive decay of uranium (uranium is a heavy metal so most of it sank before the surface cooled) actually heats up the interior of the Earth keeping it warm for billions of years. Venus doesn’t have plate tectonics, so the heat from the radioactive decay of uranium builds up inside Venus and once every billion years or so the entire surface of the planet melts and is resurfaced. Which probably also has something to do with Venus having 90x the surface pressure of Earth mostly from carbon dioxide.
To be fair, that was caused by increased volcanism.
Also: interesting fact, Earth has plate tectonics which release some of the heat that builds up inside the core of the Earth. They used to think that the Earth’s interior is molten because of heat left over from the Earth’s formation, but apparently the natural radioactive decay of uranium (uranium is a heavy metal so most of it sank before the surface cooled) actually heats up the interior of the Earth keeping it warm for billions of years. Venus doesn’t have plate tectonics, so the heat from the radioactive decay of uranium builds up inside Venus and once every billion years or so the entire surface of the planet melts and is resurfaced. Which probably also has something to do with Venus having 90x the surface pressure of Earth mostly from carbon dioxide.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 55 seconds later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,205
Which means the Earth is technically a giant nuclear reactor.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade triple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 4 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,206
Even without manmade climate change, the sun increases in luminosity by about 10% every billion years, so a billion years from now, the surface temperature of the Earth will be hot enough to vaporize water, and the Earth will become more like Venus.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade quadruple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,207
Venus could have had water at one point, Mars definitely had water, so at one point there could have been three habitable planets in the solar system, but Mars was too small to maintain its internal temperature so it lost its magnetic field and then the solar winds stripped away most of its atmosphere so it’s uninhabitable, Venus had the global resurfacing thing so it lost any oceans it used to have a long time ago, so now only Earth is left.
Anonymous C replied with this 3 weeks ago, 5 hours later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,254
@1,444,205 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade)
No, it's not lol.
There's no nuclear fission/fusion going on in the earth's core.
When the gravitational forces are strong enough to make it an actual nuclear reactor, it is reclassified from planet to star.
No, it's not lol.
There's no nuclear fission/fusion going on in the earth's core.
When the gravitational forces are strong enough to make it an actual nuclear reactor, it is reclassified from planet to star.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 21 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,255
@previous (C)
Radioactive decay generates heat. The sun produces energy via fusion.
Radioactive decay generates heat. The sun produces energy via fusion.
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Mr. Bloody Lemonade double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 5 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,256
Fission and fusion are two different things.
The way a nuclear reactor works doesn’t require high pressure. Inside a nuclear reactor, you have uranium fuel rods, and basically what happens is there are different isotopes of uranium found in nature, U-235 and U-238. U-235 is unstable so it decays, and when it decays it releases radiation. Fission is the process by which a U-235 atom decays and releases particles that hit other U-235 atoms with enough force they also split and hit more U-235 atoms. Depending on the purity of U-235 this can either result in just generating a lot of heat or it can result in an explosion if you do this fast enough. A nuclear power plant uses fission to boil water, the water spins a turbine, and that’s what generates electricity.
The way a nuclear reactor works doesn’t require high pressure. Inside a nuclear reactor, you have uranium fuel rods, and basically what happens is there are different isotopes of uranium found in nature, U-235 and U-238. U-235 is unstable so it decays, and when it decays it releases radiation. Fission is the process by which a U-235 atom decays and releases particles that hit other U-235 atoms with enough force they also split and hit more U-235 atoms. Depending on the purity of U-235 this can either result in just generating a lot of heat or it can result in an explosion if you do this fast enough. A nuclear power plant uses fission to boil water, the water spins a turbine, and that’s what generates electricity.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade triple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,257
Fusion on the other hand is when you take two atoms, you smash them together, and their join to form one atom, and this releases energy. Generally, you get more energy out of fusing lighter elements like helium. The sun is able to fuse helium because of its size, the pressure created inside the sun is enough to fuse helium atoms together, and that powers the sun.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade quadruple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,258
However, while people have built fission reactors, and people have built fission bombs, and people have built fusion bombs, nobody has made a viable fusion reactor.
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 12 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,261
@1,444,138 (C)
solar activityglobal cooling warmingclimate change" than all recorded human activity ever will. hell, just a single volcanic eruption effects the planet more than all of humanity ever has. roman times were much hotter than the present, and the last thousand years were actually considered a minor ice age.
@1,444,255 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade)
not enough to matter. the heat is primarily from gravity and the tidal forces from the moon
solar activity
@1,444,255 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade)
not enough to matter. the heat is primarily from gravity and the tidal forces from the moon
Anonymous C replied with this 3 weeks ago, 12 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,262
Mr. Bloody Lemonade joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 hour later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,280
@1,444,261 (H)
> solar activityglobal cooling warmingclimate change" than all recorded human activity ever will. hell, just a single volcanic eruption effects the planet more than all of humanity ever has. roman times were much hotter than the present, and the last thousand years were actually considered a minor ice age.
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> not enough to matter. the heat is primarily from gravity and the tidal forces from the moon
It’s amazing how you managed to fit 10 lbs of shit in a 5 lbs bag.
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> not enough to matter. the heat is primarily from gravity and the tidal forces from the moon
It’s amazing how you managed to fit 10 lbs of shit in a 5 lbs bag.
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@previous (Jared)
boy, i say boy, i dun told yew that i dont speak ebonics, now speak proper or not at all.
boy, i say boy, i dun told yew that i dont speak ebonics, now speak proper or not at all.
Jared replied with this 3 weeks ago, 52 seconds later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,301
Anonymous J replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,444,304
@previous (Jared)
have you considered raping nigguhs, boy? try it out on your da, if you can find it.
have you considered raping nigguhs, boy? try it out on your da, if you can find it.
