Chinahand's Random Stuff

[woolley]

Hmmmm. I wonder what "overpopulation" would look like.

[Chinahand]

Aren't declining life expectancies (due to the Four Horsemen Updated etc) going to stop it happening?

[woolley]

Aren't declining life expectancies (due to the Four Horsemen Updated etc) going to stop it happening?

Not before many tears are shed. Less than a billion in 1900. 2.5 billion in 1950s. 7.5 billion and counting. It's not going to end well and as a subject for debate as a huge issue facing humanity it is totally shut down by political correctness.

[gerrydandridge]

The first people / corporations that came to mind whilst reading that cartoon was Bill gates (pestilence), Monsanto (famine), Government (War) and Al Gore (Death).

 

 

[Mr. Sausages]

 

Aren't declining life expectancies (due to the Four Horsemen Updated etc) going to stop it happening?

Not before many tears are shed. Less than a billion in 1900. 2.5 billion in 1950s. 7.5 billion and counting. It's not going to end well and as a subject for debate as a huge issue facing humanity it is totally shut down by political correctness.

 

 

Don't worry woolley, those pesky muslims will get their hands on a hydrogen bomb soon.

[woolley]

 

 

Aren't declining life expectancies (due to the Four Horsemen Updated etc) going to stop it happening?

Not before many tears are shed. Less than a billion in 1900. 2.5 billion in 1950s. 7.5 billion and counting. It's not going to end well and as a subject for debate as a huge issue facing humanity it is totally shut down by political correctness.

 

 

Don't worry woolley, those pesky muslims will get their hands on a hydrogen bomb soon.

 

Maybe. I think it more likely that mother nature will provide a cull. We are helpless in the face of her power.

[Chinahand]

I do have to say I do think Shakespeare was quite the wordsmith:

 

 

Something like this used to be in the reception at Castle Rushen High School - I sat and scribbled it down when I read it!

[Chinahand]

It's Penguin Awareness day - enjoy it.

 

[the stinking enigma]

the northern rockhopper is my favourite by far. they are well cute. i will gladly pay up to two and a half grand to anyone on here that can get me one in time for my daughters birthday in may, no questions asked. will monitor the classifieds section until late april

[Chinahand]

I do like Sean Carroll:

 

[Chinahand]

Just read this quote by Robert Louis Stevenson:

 

"I wish to die in my boots; no more Land of Counterpane for me. To be drowned, to be shot, to be thrown from a horse — ay, to be hanged, rather than pass again through that slow dissolution."

[Chinahand]

My favourite quote for engineering come's from Galileo's assistant Vincenzo Viviani :

 

You must “put [it] in [to] practice to learn the fact of those difficulties in machines which are usually not foreseen in simple theorizing.

 

I need to remember that 'cause tonight my simple theorizing has been shown to be very much at variance with reality ... bugger, it broke. Back to the drawing board.

[Wasps4Sale]

What were you theorizing about out of interest?

[Tarne]

My favourite bit about engineering is that generally once you finally get your idea into shape, after all the faults and errors and revisions, you can look at your creation and go "wait a minute, there's a simpler way of doing this!" and start Again

 

Edit: I just realised I've repeated what was already said but with poorer words!

Edited February 9, 2017 by Tarne

[doc.fixit]

........my non favourite bit about engineering is that with almost any piece of readily available equipment one can modify it to function better or to last longer......... I know those are nebulous terms.........a recent example is to put grease nipples on the heads of all my mini grinders..............