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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2016 at 19:01
Had to lodge the first vote for "no". Not because I have any strong opinions on the whole "futility-of-life-and-society-going-to-hell-in-a-hand-basket" debate that's going on, but because, objectively speaking, the absence of Earth simply wouldn't have a significant impact on anything. There might be some minute impact on the orbital periods of all the objects in the solar system to keep angular momentum conserved, but it would probably be less than a rounding error in terms of impact. 

So the universe wouldn't be any better off without Earth. Or any worse off, for that matter. Honestly, the only thing that might happen of any consequence is some alien astronomers might be scratching their heads when they notice that it's been a while since the last transit... 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2016 at 20:19
If we're gone, who cares if the Universe is better off or not?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2016 at 21:23
Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

Had to lodge the first vote for "no". Not because I have any strong opinions on the whole "futility-of-life-and-society-going-to-hell-in-a-hand-basket" debate that's going on, but because, objectively speaking, the absence of Earth simply wouldn't have a significant impact on anything. There might be some minute impact on the orbital periods of all the objects in the solar system to keep angular momentum conserved, but it would probably be less than a rounding error in terms of impact. 

So the universe wouldn't be any better off without Earth. Or any worse off, for that matter. Honestly, the only thing that might happen of any consequence is some alien astronomers might be scratching their heads when they notice that it's been a while since the last transit... 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 01:04
No. The Earth is a complete irelevance within the universe. Smaller than a germ. It makes no odds in the grand scheme of things if we exist or not.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 02:04
I'm rather surprised to read a lot of comments about the evil that is mankind, while we're discussing of getting rid of the whole planet: do you really accept a planet that brought light to animal species such as the monotremes, the dolphins and the ducks?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 04:52
Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

Honestly, the only thing that might happen of any consequence is some alien astronomers might be scratching their heads when they notice that it's been a while since the last transit... 


Unlikely. The alien astronomers formed a prog band exclusively using banjos and accordions. They're too busy learning ELP's entire oeuvre to worry about their telescopes now.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 05:15
Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

Honestly, the only thing that might happen of any consequence is some alien astronomers might be scratching their heads when they notice that it's been a while since the last transit... 


Unlikely. The alien astronomers formed a prog band exclusively using banjos and accordions. They're too busy learning ELP's entire oeuvre to worry about their telescopes now.

Do you think they could do Aqualung also................
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 05:22
Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:

Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

Honestly, the only thing that might happen of any consequence is some alien astronomers might be scratching their heads when they notice that it's been a while since the last transit... 


Unlikely. The alien astronomers formed a prog band exclusively using banjos and accordions. They're too busy learning ELP's entire oeuvre to worry about their telescopes now.


Do you think they could do Aqualung also................


Oh yeah, probably. They don't have vocal cords as we know them but that would probably help them to sing like Ian Anderson.

It could be better material for them than ELP anyway since they fell out with their drummer, he said he was better than Carl Palmer but they told him if you're using six arms it doesn't count.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 05:45
Cool, will there be a movie too
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 05:56
Would Progarchives be better off without pointless threads like this?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 06:12
Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Would Progarchives be better off without pointless threads like this?


Great poll idea, dude! You should post it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 07:36
There is one thing that the Earth has contributed to the Ooniverse that as far as we know no other planet has done and that is litter. While through their destruction suns and their planets have spewed elemental particles and electromagnetic radiation into space, we are the only documented planet to have done this deliberately, along with the satellites and associated manmade debris that orbits the Earth, we've littered other nearby planets, moons and the odd comet, and we've also littered the solar neighbourhood with spurious lumps of flying metal. More than this we've been indiscriminately spewing manmade electromagnetic radiation into free space for the past 130 years so we have polluted our neighbourhood to a radius of 130 light years with this noise. If the destruction of the Earth is being schemed by minds immeasurably superior to ours then it will be because we're inconsiderate neighbours.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 09:16
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 12:49
What an absolutely meaningless question.........and the correct answer is it doesn't matter.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 12:56
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

What an absolutely meaningless question.........and the correct answer is it doesn't matter.
 
 
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hah.. see how meaningless it becomes when you see a hot brunette with no tits but a killer ass and toned set of legs that won't quit...with a 5 0'clock shadow .. a joint hanging from her lips...walking down your street packing a bottle of Jack in one hand, and a redhead in the other ... and yet still very quick on the draw with his .45...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 15:50
Did you start your party without telling me............ Oh wait that means the world is about to end ..... or your just on a bender Shocked

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 15:53
Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Would Progarchives be better off without pointless threads like this?

So I guess there is no good parties happening out your way.............
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 16:12
Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:

Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Would Progarchives be better off without pointless threads like this?

So I guess there is no good parties happening out your way.............


ahhh... I think you read his meaning wrong man. Pointless threads like this are exactly what us boring old farts who HAVE no real lives full of booze, broads and blow (only the fond memories of our hedonistic youth).

so yeah... I bet he posted that with his nose in a pile of coke, a near empty bottle of Jose Cuervo next to his keyboard and enjoying the company of a blond with a major oral fixation.

Do you think threads like this are interesting to him! LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2016 at 16:20
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:

Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Would Progarchives be better off without pointless threads like this?

So I guess there is no good parties happening out your way.............


ahhh... I think you read his meaning wrong man. Pointless threads like this are exactly what us boring old farts who HAVE no real lives full of booze, broads and blow (only the fond memories of our hedonistic youth).

so yeah... I bet he posted that with his nose in a pile of coke, a near empty bottle of Jose Cuervo next to his keyboard and enjoying the company of a blond with a major oral fixation.

Do you think threads like this are interesting to him! LOL

God good, and he finds time to post on Prog Archives, play keyboard while attached to a blond vaccum and do coke- I gotta meet this guy and get some airline tickets too
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2016 at 12:19
Perhaps the question should be: Is the earth better off without the universe. Makes just as much sense as the OP's question.
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