Just how many is a million billion trillion?

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zBrown

Ice climber

Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 28, 2015 - 08:30am PT

For the first time ever, one billion people have logged onto Facebook in a single day, meaning 1 in 7 people in the world accessed their profiles, according to the company's co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Aug 28, 2015 - 08:50am PT

No, zman, most of those logons were by my niece.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Aug 28, 2015 - 09:36am PT

Oh I love Sagan. It's too bad he's not with us still, young and a climber. Maybe the future will clone him. Indeed, maybe even he'll find his way to climbing, like Capt Kirk did, and eventually as a young man climb El Cap. We can imagine.

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Indeed, there's probably some government program right now on the dl... All the super ultras alphas of humanity (20th, 21st... ) are blood and tissue DNA sampled at death at the invitation / request of some World UN Star Chamber or what not. In preparation for some necessary eugenics 2.0 or eugenics 3.0 of the future. "Just in case."

Captain...or Skully

climber

Boise, ID or the fricken Bakken, variously

Aug 28, 2015 - 09:43am PT

That is ultra creepy, fructose.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Aug 28, 2015 - 09:47am PT

Really, Captain? Don't you think a future era of humanity could benefit by having a few more Sagans, Eisenhowers, Clintons, Obamas, Salks, Armstrongs, Honnolds, Springsteins, Darwins, Pinkers, Tysons and hfcs'es in its gene pool?

Captain...or Skully

climber

Boise, ID or the fricken Bakken, variously

Aug 28, 2015 - 09:51am PT

There's value in the luck of the draw. Those guys had their turn.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Aug 28, 2015 - 09:51am PT

An army of Sagans (a host of Sagans?) would be funny as hell!

You've heard it before, beggars can't be choosy. At some point in the future it may come to this. (I don't know, co2 at 1250 ppm?) Better an alpha than a epsilon or mu or rho, much less an omega.

And one can easily imagine if "The World Star Chamber" ain't doing it then a country is. China?

There's no stopping cloning programs. They're just too easy with too much promise / potential.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Aug 28, 2015 - 10:09am PT

C'mon, isn't it fun to think about? I like thinking. I enjoy it. About the future its possibilities and everything else. I ain't a member of the no-thing crowd interested in suspending my train of thoughts (that so-called discursive thinking) either because its annoying, boring, unwanted or whatever.

We can have fun here. That's all it is.

In the end, I guess it's just different strokes for different folks is all.

I like science.
I like science fiction.
I'm glad I do. :)

"Americans want change. They don't know what sort of change they want. They just want it to be different than it was."

There you are.

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So you have a passion for climbing I know you have. You have a passion, a love, for adventure and for your family and friends. But do you have a passion, a love, for cultural evolution? In different terms, for the continuity of civilization esp at a high level? If so, how much? I have a passion, an interest, a love for it. It's a thing too, like climbing. (It's not a no-thing.) It's a thing of which our ancestors were probably not very aware. I have a passion for it, I am aware of it, I think about it, past present and future, I want to see it advance, not recede; progress not regress.

Alright, so I bored you.
Different strokes for different folks...

Captain...or Skully

climber

Boise, ID or the fricken Bakken, variously

Aug 28, 2015 - 11:33am PT

Naw, Fructose, I too like science AND Science Fiction but the whole cloning thing I find creepy. I'm not even an organ donor because I feel there's no shortage of naked apes running around. You get one turn and off ya go.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Aug 28, 2015 - 11:43am PT

You get one turn and off ya go.

The funny thing is, for my part, I'm down with that also! :)