-
JimC
- The sentimental bloke
- Posts: 74196
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:58 am
- About me: To be serious about gin requires years of dedicated research.
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
-
Contact:
Post
by JimC » Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:34 pm
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Oh, but taking the contrarian viewpoint requires it be black and white!
And please tell me the little lizards wouldn't like to have more water, more prey and something to walk on that isn't 150F at noon.
Since they are exquisitely adapted to their desert environment, rapidly changing that environment may well make them extinct...
It has happened before...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
-
Gawdzilla Sama
- Stabsobermaschinist
- Posts: 151265
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:24 am
- About me: My posts are related to the thread in the same way Gliese 651b is related to your mother's underwear drawer.
- Location: Sitting next to Ayaan in Domus Draconis, and communicating via PMs.
-
Contact:
Post
by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:36 pm
JimC wrote:Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Oh, but taking the contrarian viewpoint requires it be black and white!
And please tell me the little lizards wouldn't like to have more water, more prey and something to walk on that isn't 150F at noon.
Since they are exquisitely adapted to their desert environment, rapidly changing that environment may well make them extinct...
It has happened before...
So climate change could doom them as well? And where do we get the idea they couldn't adapt? And, bottom line, who gives a fuck?
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
-
JimC
- The sentimental bloke
- Posts: 74196
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:58 am
- About me: To be serious about gin requires years of dedicated research.
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
-
Contact:
Post
by JimC » Fri Apr 26, 2013 12:16 am
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:JimC wrote:Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Oh, but taking the contrarian viewpoint requires it be black and white!
And please tell me the little lizards wouldn't like to have more water, more prey and something to walk on that isn't 150F at noon.
Since they are exquisitely adapted to their desert environment, rapidly changing that environment may well make them extinct...
It has happened before...
So climate change could doom them as well? And where do we get the idea they couldn't adapt? And, bottom line, who gives a fuck?
You give a fuck about wolves...
Many of us give a fuck about other unique species; they don't have to be furry and warm-blooded...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
-
Jason
- Destroyer of words
- Posts: 17782
- Joined: Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:46 pm
-
Contact:
Post
by Jason » Fri Apr 26, 2013 12:22 am
But on the scale of things.. it seems the lesser of evils. Is it not so?
At the least, reclamation of areas of desert should be acceptable to those who view the biosphere in a subjunctive state of stasis.
-
rainbow
- Posts: 13765
- Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:10 am
- About me: Egal wie dicht du bist, Goethe war Dichter
Where ever you are, Goethe was a Poet.
- Location: Africa
-
Contact:
Post
by rainbow » Fri Apr 26, 2013 6:51 am
Făkünamę wrote:But on the scale of things.. it seems the lesser of evils. Is it not so?
At the least, reclamation of areas of desert should be acceptable to those who view the biosphere in a subjunctive state of stasis.
No build nuclear power stations in the developed countries that are over-consuming, and let them take the consequences if they blow up. I'm sure they can adapt to a bit of radiation.
Leave our desert lizards alone.
I call bullshit - Alfred E Einstein
BArF−4
-
rainbow
- Posts: 13765
- Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:10 am
- About me: Egal wie dicht du bist, Goethe war Dichter
Where ever you are, Goethe was a Poet.
- Location: Africa
-
Contact:
Post
by rainbow » Fri Apr 26, 2013 6:55 am
Cormac wrote:rainbow wrote:
Yuck. Look at that example of desert vermin, taking up space where we could have solar panels and soya fields.
This has been noted and recorded by the shape-shifting reptilian Overlords.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
I call bullshit - Alfred E Einstein
BArF−4
-
Cormac
- Posts: 6415
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:47 pm
-
Contact:
Post
by Cormac » Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:20 am
rainbow wrote:Făkünamę wrote:But on the scale of things.. it seems the lesser of evils. Is it not so?
At the least, reclamation of areas of desert should be acceptable to those who view the biosphere in a subjunctive state of stasis.
No build nuclear power stations in the developed countries that are over-consuming, and let them take the consequences if they blow up. I'm sure they can adapt to a bit of radiation.
Leave our desert lizards alone.
I'd rather have humans alive, and land actually habitable, than dead humans, uninhabitable land, for the price of a million square miles of pristine desert.
Incidentally, nuclear fuel is filthy. Extraction and transport is dirty. Decommissioning is dirty, and very expensive.
There is a value in human that outweighs the value of other animals, and that includes animals in the desert.
FUCKERPUNKERSHIT!
Wanna buy some pegs Dave, I've got some pegs here...
You're my wife now!
-
Cormac
- Posts: 6415
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:47 pm
-
Contact:
Post
by Cormac » Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:22 am
rainbow wrote:Cormac wrote:rainbow wrote:
Yuck. Look at that example of desert vermin, taking up space where we could have solar panels and soya fields.
This has been noted and recorded by the shape-shifting reptilian Overlords.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Excellent.
Lets barbecue them. I bet lizards taste nice.
FUCKERPUNKERSHIT!
Wanna buy some pegs Dave, I've got some pegs here...
You're my wife now!
-
Cormac
- Posts: 6415
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:47 pm
-
Contact:
Post
by Cormac » Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:22 am
rainbow wrote:Cormac wrote:rainbow wrote:
Yuck. Look at that example of desert vermin, taking up space where we could have solar panels and soya fields.
This has been noted and recorded by the shape-shifting reptilian Overlords.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Excellent.
Lets barbecue them. I bet lizards taste nice.
FUCKERPUNKERSHIT!
Wanna buy some pegs Dave, I've got some pegs here...
You're my wife now!
-
Clinton Huxley
- 19th century monkeybitch.
- Posts: 23739
- Joined: Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:34 pm
-
Contact:
Post
by Clinton Huxley » Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:39 am
JimC wrote:Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Oh, but taking the contrarian viewpoint requires it be black and white!
And please tell me the little lizards wouldn't like to have more water, more prey and something to walk on that isn't 150F at noon.
Since they are exquisitely adapted to their desert environment, rapidly changing that environment may well make them extinct...
It has happened before...
Precisely. But hey, let the human mediated mass extinction continue
-
rainbow
- Posts: 13765
- Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:10 am
- About me: Egal wie dicht du bist, Goethe war Dichter
Where ever you are, Goethe was a Poet.
- Location: Africa
-
Contact:
Post
by rainbow » Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:14 am
Cormac wrote:
There is a value in human that outweighs the value of other animals, and that includes animals in the desert.
Wrong. If we destroy our planet by ignoring the consequences of our actions, not only will we wipe out the little critters, but we'll make the planet uninhabitable for humans as well.
It isn't a question of one or the other.
I call bullshit - Alfred E Einstein
BArF−4
-
Clinton Huxley
- 19th century monkeybitch.
- Posts: 23739
- Joined: Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:34 pm
-
Contact:
Post
by Clinton Huxley » Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:16 am
Tug at enough threads and your cardigan unravels
-
JimC
- The sentimental bloke
- Posts: 74196
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:58 am
- About me: To be serious about gin requires years of dedicated research.
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
-
Contact:
Post
by JimC » Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:39 am
Clinton Huxley wrote:Tug at enough threads and your cardigan unravels

Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
-
mistermack
- Posts: 15093
- Joined: Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:57 am
- About me: Never rong.
-
Contact:
Post
by mistermack » Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:12 pm
How the hell did you get from water power to deserts? Surely the wrong place to try it?
Anyway, where does the water come from, to green the deserts? ( nuclear fusion might do it, nothing else will ).
While there is a market for shit, there will be assholes to supply it.
-
Gawdzilla Sama
- Stabsobermaschinist
- Posts: 151265
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:24 am
- About me: My posts are related to the thread in the same way Gliese 651b is related to your mother's underwear drawer.
- Location: Sitting next to Ayaan in Domus Draconis, and communicating via PMs.
-
Contact:
Post
by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Apr 26, 2013 4:21 pm
JimC wrote:You give a fuck about wolves...
Many of us give a fuck about other unique species; they don't have to be furry and warm-blooded...
So, stopping the encroachment of the dunes and providing food for countless people, as well as expanding a habitat friendlier to life should not be done because of a few lizards.
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests