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The disappearance of humanity! Coming soon?




by Christophe » 07/06/16, 00:58

Why are we pissed off with road safety when ...humans are more likely to die than die in a car accident ?? :) Mouhahahah!

Nuclear war, climatic disasters or a pandemic. Here are the great threats to humanity today, according to a British report relayed by the American newspaper The Atlantic.


A small article of anticipation on the disappearance of humanity (or at least a large part of it) to read here: http://www.levif.be/actualite/internati ... 08873.html
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by Exnihiloest » 07/06/16, 19:31

Indeed, we can laugh about it. The press and the media in general do in shameless disaster to attract the barge, but the most terrible thing is that it works. The bigger it is, the more they sell, from where I conclude that the readers gobber.
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by moinsdewatt » 07/06/16, 21:16

We see this kind of article at least once a year.

Nothing new.
Without interest.
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by Obamot » 07/06/16, 22:56

The human being is the perfect monster. It is ultra-gigantic compared to the infinitely small (of which it itself consists of the bricks gnark, gnark, gnark ...) and it is imperceptible in the infinity of the galaxies.
The consolation is that if it disappears it will not even be known!
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by Ahmed » 08/06/16, 08:21

It would be more interesting to know when humanity will finally appear!
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by Janic » 08/06/16, 10:20

It would be more interesting to know when humanity will finally appear!
sweet dreamer! :D
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by Obamot » 08/06/16, 12:25

According to Jean Fourastié

Jean Fourastié wrote:"Among the ideas which should dominate our conception of the world and which however are practically neglected, the duration of humanity is one of the most important. (...) By limiting the order of magnitude of the duration of the human phenomenon to one million years, we can appreciate that we have lived the tenth and that we have yet to live the nine tenths. (...) ”.

"Compared to the duration of an individual, the past duration of our humanity would make that
our humanity today would be ten years old. "


A) "During our First 5 years, without parent and without master, we could hardly distinguish ourselves from other mammals; then we found art, morals, law, religion. "

B) "We can read and write for less than a year. »

C) "We built the Parthenon here is less than three months »

D) " Two months ago, Christ was born. "

E) " Less than 15 days ago, we started to clearly identify the experimental scientific method, which allows us to know some realities of the Universe. "

F) " Two days ago that we know how to use electricity and build planes. "

G) "Our best political, economic and social experiences are less than a week old »

H) "The first waves of the human sciences have a few days »

I) " Here are a few minutes, Gaston Berger showed the need for prospective research, that is to say forecasting for the decision. "

J) " We are growing, after having slowly crossed the stages of a difficult childhood: our body develops at the incredible speed of 3% per hour, our faculty of production about as fast, our faculty of knowledge even faster. We do not yet know what the size and weight of our body and brain will be in the future, if they have an optimum. "
« We are a ten year old boy, courageous, strong and full of promise. "

K) "We will know next year do lots of faultless dictations and correctly calculate the rules of three. "

L) " In two years, we will enter sixth grade and we will make our first solemn communion. "

M) " In 100 years, we will reach our majority ... "


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by Christophe » 08/06/16, 13:18

"Compared to the duration of an individual, the past duration of our humanity would make our humanity today ten years old. "


What is this gibberish ???? : Shock: : Shock: Ok by reading the following points we understand the analogy.

No interesting developments in this list! Good for the trash!

What does solemn communion do in the development of humanity ??? Should we remind the author that 4/5 of humanity is not Christian and therefore that solemn communion does not concern it, that the 6th only concerns French people? In short, this speaks volumes about the level of reasoning of this smoky analogy from smoker !! : Shock:

Also, we build planes before mastering the rule of 3 ... not bad :)

Who is Jean Fourastié? Sociologist? Futurlogue? I think that Astrologer would be better for him ... and again I have already read horoscopes less full of contradictions :)

I prefer by far, the energy approach of Kardashev: science-and-technology / scale-of-kardashev-quantity-of-energy-of-a-civilization-t8166.html
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by Christophe » 08/06/16, 13:57

Ah I found who it was: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fourasti%C3%A9

Jean Fourastié is a French economist born April 15, 1907 in Saint-Benin-d'Azy and died July 25, 1990 in Douelle


He did not say that bullshit, better in economics than a sociology or in analogy rather ^^ :)

He relied on the equality 2 ^ 10 = 1024 to assert that growth cannot be indefinite; a growth of 7% per year (approximately that of the French GDP during the Thirty Glorious Years) would give a multiplication by two in 10 years, therefore a multiplication by 1 in a century, which is impossible. Jean Fourastié thought that we were in a transitional period: before, it was traditional life; afterwards, it will be a technical civilization with a high standard of living, but where growth will be weak or zero.


We are in the thick of it and current economists do not understand that it is structural ... where they pretend not to understand ...
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by Obamot » 08/06/16, 13:58

It is that it is not so simple to understand globally: :) : Arrowd: (I like the quote below, it explains the telescoping well)

François Mitterrand wrote:"Everything that changes, everything that has changed somewhere in the world has repercussions elsewhere in a drag, a chain of successive reactions and adaptations. And no one is immune. "
Phrase that I put in the title of an exam work.

Christophe wrote:
Jean Fourastié wrote:"Compared to the duration of an individual, the past duration of our humanity would make that
our humanity today would be ten years old. "


What is this gibberish ???? : Shock: : Shock: Ok by reading the following points we understand the analogy.

He had probably wanted to make a metaphor, rather? It was the appreciation of this question seen by an economist raised by parents born in the 19nd century. It resembles the chronology made on the origin of life on Earth by reducing it to 24:00 (if we take the angle of Darwinism) http://www.astronoo.com/fr/articles/histoire-terre.html (I had seen another representation, but I can't find it anymore.)
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