Arctic sea ice hits record low

[Baruch]

The future is the only thing of consequence.  The past is dead and the present is the merest fraction of time - the portion of the future that has arrived.  The future is an infinite realm of potentiality unbounded.  And it's on its way to you right now.

The future is coming on, it's coming on...

The future is fear and hope ... mere emotions.  But SciFi people live in the future, which never arrives.  Of course, one should be concerned for consequences, but that isn't the same as "Future".

[Unbeliever]

I remember reading Asimov's book, A Choice of Catastrophes: The Disasters That Threaten Our World, way back in the 80s. We don't seem to have dealt with any of the possible catastrophes that threaten our world. Hopefully, I'll melt back into oblivion before things get too much worse.

[Baruch]

I remember reading Asimov's book, A Choice of Catastrophes: The Disasters That Threaten Our World, way back in the 80s. We don't seem to have dealt with any of the possible catastrophes that threaten our world. Hopefully, I'll melt back into oblivion before things get too much worse.

Is your Philosaur a butter-ball turkey?  You''re basting in your own juices?  Time to get back in the freezer until next Thanksgiving ;-)

[Hydra009]

But SciFi people live in the future, which never arrives.

Au contraire.  It arrives every second of every day.

Of course, one should be concerned for consequences, but that isn't the same as "Future".

Where else would consequences happen?

[Baruch]

Au contraire.  It arrives every second of every day.
Where else would consequences happen?

Your Newtonian time is ... obsolete for over 100 years now.  Newton described absolute time as being like a steady river that flows past you, while you stand on the bank, getting older.  This is because of clocks, particularly regulated clocks, which only exist because of people making toy systems.

[Hydra009]

I remember reading Asimov's book, A Choice of Catastrophes: The Disasters That Threaten Our World, way back in the 80s. We don't seem to have dealt with any of the possible catastrophes that threaten our world.

Exactly.  We'll always deal with it later.  Always later.  And then later arrives and we're screwed.

When you don't concern yourself with the future, you run the risk of not having one.

[Unbeliever]

When you don't concern yourself with the future, you run the risk of not having one.

Well said! 

[Baruch]

Well said! 

Que serah, serah, whatever will be will be ...

[Unbeliever]

OK, but please, don't eat the daisies!

[Baruch]

In the long run, everyone is dead.  The future looks at lot less interesting at 60 than it did at 20.  Enjoy a misbegotten youth while you still can!

[Johan]

Are you not planning to live in the future?

Are you? I've got maybe 50 years left tops before I'm fertilizer. And I'm at the point where I could give a fuck what happens after that.

[Baruch]

Are you? I've got maybe 50 years left tops before I'm fertilizer. And I'm at the point where I could give a fuck what happens after that.

They make Com-munists into Com-post ... are you Left?  The Right, they won't let them pollute the soil, they will shoot them into the Sun.

[fencerider]

Shooting Republicans into the sun??? Thats no good either, might destablize it. Some people say get rid of radio active material by throwing it into the sun. I question the intelligence of such an idea: all the Uranium on earth to the sun-what happens when it gets to the core? Might be a worse situation to send the Right into the sun

[Cavebear]

The future is the only thing of consequence.  The past is dead and the present is the merest fraction of time - the portion of the future that has arrived.  The future is an infinite realm of potentiality unbounded.  And it's on its way to you right now.

The future is coming on, it's coming on...

Aside from the fact that the future is always technically in the future, let's say that tomorrow is part of the present (being within reach) and is affected by what we do today in our lifetimes.

[Baruch]

Aside from the fact that the future is always technically in the future, let's say that tomorrow is part of the present (being within reach) and is affected by what we do today in our lifetimes.

Only if I don't die in my sleep ... and I keep hoping ;-)