I remember an interview Vonnegut gave back in the 70's. Apparently, he was mightly impressed by the fact that only two things survived the first nuclear detonation..ants & cockroaches.
Ipso facto
He wrote a novel under the pseudonym " Kilgore Trout " where the last creature to have ever seen God is a giant cockroach....
Awesome, I'd like to check that out, I'm part way through reading Slapstick, kind of... I haven't picked up any of the book's I'm partway through in a good three weeks.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by jesperas
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No, T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men.
And the fire and ice line is a paraphrase from the poem Fire and Ice by Robert Frost.
Ok, thanks. It sounded like Vonnegut, but I have read a lot of his stuff and never heard that, so I was wondering.
The pentium 12 processor causes a massive fire that rages beyond our control - at the same time it mutates some of the biggest PC leaders to Billzilla, Balmerra, and Dellgor.
About 3 billion years from now The sun will expand to become a red giant. The oceans will boil and the atmosphere will burn away. long after that the sun will shrink exausted of fuel. The earth will beome a cold rock in space. So it will be both fire and then ice.
Life on earth will end long before the sun becomes a red giant. Like all stars, the sun is constantly changing, and right now it's slightly past the middle of its main sequence life. Within a billion or two years, life won't be able to exist on earth (at least, not as we know it, maybe some cockroaches or single-celled organisms will survive). The real big end to planet earth will come when the sun turns into a red giant, or when the Andromeda galaxy collides with our Milky Way, hurtling stars in all directions.
As far as asteroid collisions - it's highly likely that a large asteroid will hit the earth within the next few million years. At the same time, that asteroid will probably not cause the extinction of all life, just most complex forms of it. A few humans may survive (assuming we're not all dead by then), perhaps by using underground hydroponics labs for food, and getting their energy from thermal vents.
Life on earth will end long before the sun becomes a red giant. Like all stars, the sun is constantly changing, and right now it's slightly past the middle of its main sequence life. Within a billion or two years, life won't be able to exist on earth (at least, not as we know it, maybe some cockroaches or single-celled organisms will survive). The real big end to planet earth will come when the sun turns into a red giant, or when the Andromeda galaxy collides with our Milky Way, hurtling stars in all directions.
As far as asteroid collisions - it's highly likely that a large asteroid will hit the earth within the next few million years. At the same time, that asteroid will probably not cause the extinction of all life, just most complex forms of it. A few humans may survive (assuming we're not all dead by then), perhaps by using underground hydroponics labs for food, and getting their energy from thermal vents.
Even though the cold war is over, keep in mind that the US has over 1500 warheads ready to launch that are capable of between 100 and 1000 times the devastation of the ones we used in WW2.
We have enough to destroy the world many times over.
As far as asteroid collisions - it's highly likely that a large asteroid will hit the earth within the next few million years. At the same time, that asteroid will probably not cause the extinction of all life, just most complex forms of it. A few humans may survive (assuming we're not all dead by then), perhaps by using underground hydroponics labs for food, and getting their energy from thermal vents.
All this talk of fire and brimstone was getting me gloomy. Thank You Luca, for reminding me that when most of humanity is gone, hydro will still keep me lit.
Viva la hydroponics labs!
Viva la revolucion!
But seriously folks, considering the incontravertible fact that all life that [we] know is really just a figment of my imagination (what is a figment, really, anyway?), "life" will end when (if) i die.
Wow, in the spirit of charity I read the swedish bikini team comment as a joke. I laughed. Then I read the vonnegut comment. I shook my head. I dunno why the extent of literacy on the web seems to begin and end with Vonnegut. He's fun, reasonably smart, but basically a minor writer writing stories of mostly minor importance.
Wow, in the spirit of charity I read the swedish bikini team comment as a joke. I laughed. Then I read the vonnegut comment. I shook my head. I dunno why the extent of literacy on the web seems to begin and end with Vonnegut. He's fun, reasonably smart, but basically a minor writer writing stories of mostly minor importance.
Well what's so bad about being a 'minor writer'? I don't think it's really of any importance if what he writes is of any importance, what is of importance anyway?
The world will end by a giant mutant rat sneezing, covering the earth in a thick film of snot.
i bring to the table another of vonnegut's pieces....
the world will end when a super stable room temperature form of water ice gets accidently tossed into the sea...(btw ice 2 through 14 (i believe that is the highest one identified) exist... its curious to look at the phase diagram of water in all its wonder...)
i only know of vonnegut because of slaughter house five (well, and several other novels, but this one is the first i read), and his back and forth with Catch 22's Heller...
The world will end with a blare of trumpets from angels on high, signaling the return of our One True Redeemer Jesus the Christ Son of Yahweh. In accordance with the Lord God Almighty's Word 144 thousand will be accepted into Heaven and the rest of you poor Bastards will spend Eternity wishing you believed all the Crap your parents pushed on you as a child.
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I remember an interview Vonnegut gave back in the 70's. Apparently, he was mightly impressed by the fact that only two things survived the first nuclear detonation..ants & cockroaches.
Ipso facto
He wrote a novel under the pseudonym " Kilgore Trout " where the last creature to have ever seen God is a giant cockroach....
Awesome, I'd like to check that out, I'm part way through reading Slapstick, kind of... I haven't picked up any of the book's I'm partway through in a good three weeks.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by jesperas
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No, T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men.
And the fire and ice line is a paraphrase from the poem Fire and Ice by Robert Frost.
Ok, thanks. It sounded like Vonnegut, but I have read a lot of his stuff and never heard that, so I was wondering.
I like jelly with my world.
HOLY F****** S***!
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost, 1920
As far as asteroid collisions - it's highly likely that a large asteroid will hit the earth within the next few million years. At the same time, that asteroid will probably not cause the extinction of all life, just most complex forms of it. A few humans may survive (assuming we're not all dead by then), perhaps by using underground hydroponics labs for food, and getting their energy from thermal vents.
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
Life on earth will end long before the sun becomes a red giant. Like all stars, the sun is constantly changing, and right now it's slightly past the middle of its main sequence life. Within a billion or two years, life won't be able to exist on earth (at least, not as we know it, maybe some cockroaches or single-celled organisms will survive). The real big end to planet earth will come when the sun turns into a red giant, or when the Andromeda galaxy collides with our Milky Way, hurtling stars in all directions.
As far as asteroid collisions - it's highly likely that a large asteroid will hit the earth within the next few million years. At the same time, that asteroid will probably not cause the extinction of all life, just most complex forms of it. A few humans may survive (assuming we're not all dead by then), perhaps by using underground hydroponics labs for food, and getting their energy from thermal vents.
Or somewhere other than earth.
TITLE :
" Venus & the Half-Shell "
We have enough to destroy the world many times over.
See Dr Strangelove ...( Or how I learnt to stop worrying & learnt to love the bomb ) ...truly Kubrick @ his noir prophetic best....
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
As far as asteroid collisions - it's highly likely that a large asteroid will hit the earth within the next few million years. At the same time, that asteroid will probably not cause the extinction of all life, just most complex forms of it. A few humans may survive (assuming we're not all dead by then), perhaps by using underground hydroponics labs for food, and getting their energy from thermal vents.
All this talk of fire and brimstone was getting me gloomy. Thank You Luca, for reminding me that when most of humanity is gone, hydro will still keep me lit.
Viva la hydroponics labs!
Viva la revolucion!
But seriously folks, considering the incontravertible fact that all life that [we] know is really just a figment of my imagination (what is a figment, really, anyway?), "life" will end when (if) i die.
Originally posted by aquafire
See Dr Strangelove ...( Or how I learnt to stop worrying & learnt to love the bomb ) ...truly Kubrick @ his noir prophetic best....
Be wary of flourinated water. That movie is just too sweet[tm].
Originally posted by Matsu
Wow, in the spirit of charity I read the swedish bikini team comment as a joke. I laughed. Then I read the vonnegut comment. I shook my head. I dunno why the extent of literacy on the web seems to begin and end with Vonnegut. He's fun, reasonably smart, but basically a minor writer writing stories of mostly minor importance.
Well what's so bad about being a 'minor writer'? I don't think it's really of any importance if what he writes is of any importance, what is of importance anyway?
The world will end by a giant mutant rat sneezing, covering the earth in a thick film of snot.
the world will end when a super stable room temperature form of water ice gets accidently tossed into the sea...(btw ice 2 through 14 (i believe that is the highest one identified) exist... its curious to look at the phase diagram of water in all its wonder...)
i only know of vonnegut because of slaughter house five (well, and several other novels, but this one is the first i read), and his back and forth with Catch 22's Heller...
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