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[quote who="skyzyk" reply="119" id="2646511"]I think it is wrong to clone people. They also have the genome for Adolf Hitler, where do we draw the line? [/quote] I just want to point out (again I believe) that a clone of a person is not going to be the same individual. It's going to be like an identical twin born much later. Have you ever met identical twins? They very often behave completely differently from one another. There's much more to human behavior and individuality than simp

[quote who="caross73" reply="40" id="2646439"]You know how fertilizer is made. Look up the Haber-Bosch process. Most of the calories consumed by humans today, everything in excess of what was produced before the so-called green revolution in agriculture, come directly from oil drilling or coal mining, only a fraction come from the sun.[/quote] Um, first, the Haber process usually uses natural gas, not oil, but coal can also be used, and what they are actually using thos

Like silly wars and saving fail companies. [e digicons]^_^[/e] Did you know there's a guy with a microchip in his head that allows him to control a robotic hand with his mind? Or that we have a method of sustained flight based on ionizing the air around a craft to create lift with no moving parts? How about a laser mounted to a plane that can blast apart a cruise missile in flight? None of that is fiction or theory, but real workable technology. But ya, our money is ti

It's been out in English for quite some time, or I think the RUS version came with English on it and you only needed a fan patch to switch languages. I've only heard terrible, terrible things about the game, otherwise I would have tried it months ago. I loved Disciples II very much, but the third game does away with a lot of what I loved. I'm not talking races, but core mechanics like not having persistent heroes (outside the campaign) and units.

[quote who="Raven X" reply="25" id="2646038"]Even on a moon of Jupiter, without some kind of advanced shielding we'd still fry like eggs. The only things keeping us safe right now is the "Perfect" distance that we are from the sun, plus our Atmosphere. Without BOTH of those working in conjunction we wouldn't exist. This is why Scientists are looking for worlds in other solar systems that have water and are a certain distance from their own sun. They can do this with radio telescopes by detect

[quote who="Raven X" reply="20" id="2645941"]I would like to think that too, but.... Even if we manage to get off the Earth, if we don't leave our Solar System before the Sun either goes "Super-Nova" or becomes a "Dwarf", we're all still screwed.[/quote] That will easily happen. Our sun isn't going to become a red giant and consume the Earth for another 5 billion years. We already have a general idea on how to create a wormhole to allow faster than light travel, we simply don't have t

[quote who="Finneglot" reply="99" id="2645883"]Why do you think life is a gift? And a gift by whom? Please, to all those pandering the word 'life' left and right, define it clearly. You can't have an argument if people keep talking in different languages.[/quote] A gift from your parents, or whoever put your cells together in a petri dish. Don't get me wrong, I'm an atheist, I meant nothing religious in my post. Why do I think it's a gift? Are you serious? You would rather

[quote who="caross73" reply="16" id="2645744"]The oil runs out in about 20-50 years depending who you ask - I suspect sooner rather than later, at which point fertilizer and gasoline (to run combines, tractors, etc... and distribute the products) dependent agriculture collapses. I suppose at that point, in our brilliance we will turn to burning coal, which will make everything ELSE worse.[/quote] We aren't as dependent on oil as the oil industry might make you think. A quarter of the

Unless it happens suddenly and without warning within the next maybe 50 years, the end of the world will not be the end of humanity. I suspect once we start colonizing other planets it will be impossible to wipe us out. I wouldn't mind watching the Earth destroyed on "TV" (or whatever it's called then) from another planet or star system though. I mean if it was going to happen anyway I'd like to witness it. It would probably be breathtaking in many ways.

I would have to disagree with the above responses. I got tired of the game after a few days, tried to stick with it but gave up after barely a week. It's the worst game I've ever bought. Space combat consists of slamming the space bar over and over while slowly spinning your ship in circles. Ground combat is a joke and feels like an after thought. Most of the content is randomly generated by a crappy system that gives you the same objectives over and over again in small poorly generated syste

I think life, or existence itself, is a gift. Giving life to something, no matter the reasons, is the greatest act of kindness. Would you rather live a mostly comfortable life being pricked and prodded every day, or not exist at all? Live in a bubble, or never have a chance? Pretty simple to me, and the fact that it could potentially help millions of people, if not all of them, is simply a bonus.