[CoLoCo] (Off-Topic) Proof of Alien Life to be shown in Denver Friday.

[Paul Schwartz]

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From: Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
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Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] (Off-Topic) Proof of Alien Life to be shown in Denver Friday.




On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
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> Paul, I think you are right about advanced civilizations destroying
> themselves. You only need to look at Earth history to see example of that.
>

If any of the crust-shifting and/or asteroid theories are correct, the
advanced civilizations don't need to do anything to be destroyed.


I'm not sure what accounts for the collapse of all previous civilizations but I'm pretty sure it wasn't asteroids. Those don't come around often enough to wipe out civilizations before they take care of that themselves. That's not to say that one couldn't or hasn't but they certainly won't account for all. Not sure about crust-shifting but if you mean earthquakes I suspect they are frequent enough to cause major problems for lessor civilizations (not a historian so I can't site any examples but I'm sure someone will dig one up) but I seriously doubt modern humans will be wiped out by one or more earthquakes unless they are accompanied by a host of other events. Therefore, I think a theory that says civilizations tend to crush under their own weight is more plausible than one placing blame on natural disasters

Jim-
I agree for civilizations, but what about for species? More likely to be natural disasters, I think.

Paul


      
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