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  1. LibertyBell
    What I find fascinating is that dinosaurs were already evolving to two legged warm blooded large brained creatures who took care of their young. Their brains were already experiencing massive growth-- and the last few generations of dinosaurs were as intelligent as many of the creatures I mentioned in a previous post. Raptors were quite social and hunted in packs, just like modern wild dogs do, so they were probably as intelligent as them. There were even dinosaurs that looked like parrots and were as colorful-- and some say the dinosaurs never died out, they live on as birds and if that's the case, African Grey Parrots, Ravens and Magpies are all --extremely-- intelligent, all rated as having the intelligence of a 7 year old human child by biologists.
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    The K-T event cannot be minimized, the earth was completely cut off from sunlight for 6 months-- it killed 75% of all life on the planet. And we whine after a few days without sunlight, can you imagine 6 months of total darkness all over the planet? Yes, the Permian event killed more, 90%-- but they are ranked #1 and #2 in the six mass extinction events this planet has faced. Humanity has created the sixth all on its own.
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    I'm trying to find the likelihood of other intelligent life developing, our planet has other intelligent life on it besides humans after all. Octopus, elephants, dolphins, African Grey Parrots are all quite sentient, have learned how to use tools and have complex language, empathy and even bury and mourn their dead. Ravens understand the concept of past and future and understand their reflections are actually reflections. African greys can do math and understand the concept of zero (something it took humans thousands of years to comprehend.) Octopus build settlements on the seafloor and use tools to escape enclosures. The religious and philosophical aspects of what you're talking about are quite different; we don't know if those species I listed have that but it's quite possible they might (since, after all, they bury their dead and return to the same site year after year to mourn them.) Hell, some of these species even create art for its own sake. Nature is quite miraculous and we are merely a part of it.
  4. LibertyBell
    How could you not like the sun?
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    On the level of extinction level events, the fact that we are here today at all is a testimony to the resilience of life in recovering after such cataclysmic events! Perhaps the true answer to the Fermi Paradox is that we were lucky enough to be born on a planet that is stable enough to allow evolution to progress far enough to allow us to be born. Maybe most other habitable worlds just aren't this stable for this long and life doesn't get beyond a very simple, maybe even microbial level?
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    Do you think humanity will eventually develop the power to stop volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of this magnitude and scale? Something I have wondered about. I know we have already been testing methods of stopping extinction level asteroids.
  7. LibertyBell
    For an ant it probably would be lol
  8. LibertyBell
    That 12-15 inch snowstorm withstood the two rainstorms that came after it, the snowcover was resilient!
  9. LibertyBell
    Less rain is really good news, now let's work on the sunshine.
  10. LibertyBell
    How warm are we talking about though? Highs in the 40s aren't so warm.
  11. LibertyBell
    At least April and May were good before we got smoked out in June
  12. LibertyBell
    Colorado seems ideal, they have some of the best ski resorts around.
  13. LibertyBell
    I wasn't a fan of the Roman Empire either because they stole most of their ideas from the Greeks. But long term peace is a powerful idea we need to encourage. Common sense seems to be very uncommon, especially when greed and power are involved. I've always believed when you follow the advice of scientists you can avoid most of these issues.
  14. LibertyBell
    That's something I like about the Poconos, no matter what you'll always get at least one 6 inch snowstorm there. The best storms I found were the daylong light snow events with absolutely nothing showing on radar.
  15. LibertyBell
    It seems like a weird el nino la nina hybrid. I remember several el ninos when we had nice arctic shots that cleared out all the cloud pollution
  16. LibertyBell
    That's the odd thing, the last 2 years, spring has been the least cloudy season. April and May have both been really good the last 2 years.
  17. LibertyBell

    keep it up and I'll make sure you get 5 posted, I assure you, Randy likes me a lot more than he likes you, he doesn't even know who you are.....so keep doing it and see what happens 

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      LibertyBell

      Not that you've ever said anything useful in even a single post, so I should argue to get you 1 posted.

  18. LibertyBell
    The people who are only here for snow aren't real weather hobbyists though, they're just snow hobbyists, which is pretty much any of these ignorant brats with "snow" in their name (with a few exceptions-- they know who they are lol.)
  19. LibertyBell

    Back with the weenies eh, I'm going through all your posts and weenieing anything I missed, tit for tat as they say.

    You've been buried in your hole for a year now, you need to go back down there and stay down there.

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      LibertyBell

      it's where you belong

  20. LibertyBell

    Back with the weenies eh, I'm going through all your posts and weenieing anything I missed, tit for tat as they say.

  21. LibertyBell
    Cloudy foggy minds think alike!!
  22. LibertyBell
    Even when there's no precip it still seems to be mostly cloudy. If there's no storm around where exactly are all these clouds coming from? For example, after today it's supposed to be mostly cloudy for the rest of the week, but there are no storm systems around. Is this because we don't have any strong fronts to clear us out?
  23. LibertyBell
    I have read a ton of history and all nationalism leads to is more wars and more death. Unification is the only way out of endless wars. The greatest eras of peace on this planet existed when most of the world was under one rule (Pax Romana being one that stands out)
  24. LibertyBell
    Let them stay in California and the South. They can withstand the flooding far more than we can.
  25. LibertyBell
    I was thinking about this and I'm sure many/most would agree. We'd give up all those great winters to end the bipolar nature of our winters. In other words, get rid of the variability and every winter should be plus or minus 5 inches of the long term average. No more 40 and 50 inch snowfall winters, but no more 5 and 15 inch winters either. I'd be just fine with keeping the same long term average for snowfall but never getting more than 32 inches of snow and never getting less than 24 inches of snow. The joy of the great winters definitely isn't worth the pain of the bad ones.
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