When I think of 2010, I think of this song...

[Pwns]

"Ten in 2010" by bad religion


The Lyrics
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/badrelig ... n2010.html

10 billion? Really?


Just where are all of the scientists that made this prediction back in the day? Probably masturbating to pictures of corpses of people killed in natural disasters and thanking their lucky stars they won't be around when the bottom falls out of the developed world because of decades of sub-replacement birth rates. Thanks for all the years and years of propaganda about overpopulation you misanthropic, ecosystem-worshipping UN f***s.

[CID1990]

Why do you think that we're planning a future mission to Mars?

We're going to terraform that fvcker and move all the white people there. Then, all the brown people left behind here on Earth can skull fvck each other with their 12 children per family.

We'll name Mars "New Idaho."

Except for me. By that time, all of NC will be my compound, and all my CS.com peeps will be my henchmen. Chizzang will be my mini-me.

[slycat]

Luckily war, genocide, and disease over the years have killed off a lot of people and their ability to reproduce so we never hit those numbers.

[Chizzang]

"Ten in 2010" by bad religion


The Lyrics
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/badrelig ... n2010.html

10 billion? Really?


Just where are all of the scientists that made this prediction back in the day? Probably masturbating to pictures of corpses of people killed in natural disasters and thanking their lucky stars they won't be around when the bottom falls out of the developed world because of decades of sub-replacement birth rates. Thanks for all the years and years of propaganda about overpopulation you misanthropic, ecosystem-worshipping UN f***s.

Dude... are you okay..?
Scientists make millions of predictions
and just about everything today you can see hear smell touch or taste - a scientists is involved with
(as a side note: Have you ever looked at a global population chart over time... fairly staggering)

Try holding your bible up the the same light that you use to judge scientists...

[Pwns]

Dude... are you okay..?
Scientists make millions of predictions
and just about everything today you can see hear smell touch or taste - a scientists is involved with
(as a side note: Have you ever looked at a global population chart over time... fairly staggering)

Try holding your bible up the the same light that you use to judge scientists...

An honest question Chizzy - do you think the prediction of 10 billion people by 2010 (which was made about 15-20 years ago) was made carefully and rigorously and took into account many variables or do you think it was something that was done sloppily and/or with a hidden agenda? I mean, if this was a prediction from the 1970s I'd just throw it in the garbage dump with the rest of the predictions of environmental disaster from that time that didn't come to pass. But this is a prediction from half a generation ago. Calling it an air ball is being generous.

Yes, scientists make predictions...but if they are done irresponsibly or with bias they can be dangerous. Being way off on your prediction of where proxima centauri will be in 30 years is one thing - making a prediction about an ecological disaster that will affect human life and screaming the sky is falling to every government that will listen is another thing entirely.

[kalm]

So they were off by a few years on the population, doesn't change the fact that the world would be a much better place if a) there were less people and b) everyone worshiped ecosystems a little more. The highest standards of living are in places with less people and strong environmental protections - Montana and Sweden come to mind.

As for apocalyptic predictions, 2010 isn't over yet.

[Ivytalk]

I think of "In the Year 2525." It came out in 1969, and it sounds eerily prescient each time I hear it.

[Chizzang]

Dude... are you okay..?
Scientists make millions of predictions
and just about everything today you can see hear smell touch or taste - a scientists is involved with
(as a side note: Have you ever looked at a global population chart over time... fairly staggering)

Try holding your bible up the the same light that you use to judge scientists...

An honest question Chizzy - do you think the prediction of 10 billion people by 2010 (which was made about 15-20 years ago) was made carefully and rigorously and took into account many variables or do you think it was something that was done sloppily and/or with a hidden agenda? I mean, if this was a prediction from the 1970s I'd just throw it in the garbage dump with the rest of the predictions of environmental disaster from that time that didn't come to pass. But this is a prediction from half a generation ago. Calling it an air ball is being generous.

Yes, scientists make predictions...but if they are done irresponsibly or with bias they can be dangerous. Being way off on your prediction of where proxima centauri will be in 30 years is one thing - making a prediction about an ecological disaster that will affect human life and screaming the sky is falling to every government that will listen is another thing entirely.

For Example:
In 1960 there were less than 1/2 (Yeah that's right LESS THAN HALF) as many people on this planet as there are today... that means your average 50 year old person has seen the worlds population double in their own lifetime

Just a few years after WWII the worlds population was growing so fast all reasonable global population predictions made in just the previous decade were laughable... so new population Algorithms were required to get the numbers closer to the actual "explosion" that was happening

What could not be predicted was that China and India would actually "moderately decrease" their crazy exploding growth cycles...as a result the global populations have only grown at "ridiculous rates" and not catastrophic rates as expected

and as far as hidden agendas and sloppy work - I agree - there are lots of regular humans that are scientists and these regular humans are entrusted to be honest and forthcoming - however - they are just like priests and clergy or politicians and wall street tycoons - the percentage of dishonest humans is FLAT across the board no matter what their job is... so as a result Churches and corporations and governments and doctors and lawyers and teachers... a percentage are just dishonest

[Gil Dobie]

2010 continues the growth of Big Brother, call him Bush, call him Obama, same shiat different face, less freedom.

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