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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16702 Location: On a slope
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 Europe headed for an ice age?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8398
Basically there's been a slowdown of the current that brings warm water north in the atlantic. Apparently this current raises European temperatures, but the amount of water heading that way has dropped by 30%. This brings fears that the current may fail altogether and plunge the entire continent into an ice age.
Get ready to invade Africa, my European companions!
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Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:07 am |
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Arathorn
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Joined: Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:23 am Posts: 3956 Location: Amsterdam
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An old theory, but finally proven. However, an ice age seems a little far-fetched. I expect more a situation like the American east coast has now. It won't get any colder then that.
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Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:20 am |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7737 Location: Centre of the sun
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I thought things were getting warmer on this patch of globe...
Invade Africa indeed!  They never knew how to run the place anyway.
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Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:27 am |
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Mole
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:09 pm Posts: 4004 Location: Walsall, West Mids, UK
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nah, coldest winter for 40 years right now 
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Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:28 pm |
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pevil
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 1:43 am Posts: 4332
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haha yeah coldest winter but still global warming too. waht a fucked up planet 
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Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:35 pm |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7737 Location: Centre of the sun
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Bah, all sun flares i think.
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Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:57 pm |
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ElevenBravo
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Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2003 2:18 pm Posts: 1976 Location: Sexy Town
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It gets -60 during the winter in Alaska and its liveable. I know, I lived there.
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Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:28 pm |
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Myrddin L'argenton
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Joined: Mon Apr 14, 2003 6:17 am Posts: 1717 Location: The Plateaus of Insanity
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Bout time for another one.
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Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:04 am |
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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I'm getting my post-nuclear bunker ready.  I don't mind cold too much...but I usually don't have to deal with -50 either.  But if the cavemen could survive, I surely could. As an added bonus, I still got their hairy pelt but my superior brain. 
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Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:51 am |
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Myrddin L'argenton
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Joined: Mon Apr 14, 2003 6:17 am Posts: 1717 Location: The Plateaus of Insanity
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But somehow I doubt you are as clever as them. The Neanderthals were incredible people being able to live in those conditions.
_________________ I think drugs have done some really good things. If you don't believe me, go home tonight, take all your cassettes, CDs, etc and burn them. Because those artists that have made that music were real fucking high- Bill Hicks
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Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:42 am |
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ElevenBravo
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Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2003 2:18 pm Posts: 1976 Location: Sexy Town
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They also pooped, pee'd, cooked, slept, lived and buried their own dead all in the same cave.
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Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:44 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16702 Location: On a slope
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as long as they don't poop on their dead and then eat them...
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Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:58 am |
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Myrddin L'argenton
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Joined: Mon Apr 14, 2003 6:17 am Posts: 1717 Location: The Plateaus of Insanity
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Well they aren't as stupid as they were made out to be, pretty much as intelligent as us and survived for 3 Ice Ages before we appeared. That is a nice track record. Archaeologists are not even certain how they died out tho there is a modern opinion that it may be due to our ability to talk that won us it.
_________________ I think drugs have done some really good things. If you don't believe me, go home tonight, take all your cassettes, CDs, etc and burn them. Because those artists that have made that music were real fucking high- Bill Hicks
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Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:33 pm |
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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We talked them to death? w00t!
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Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:07 am |
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Myrddin L'argenton
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Joined: Mon Apr 14, 2003 6:17 am Posts: 1717 Location: The Plateaus of Insanity
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pretty similar but the fact we could communicate better may have led to us being dominate. its complex.
_________________ I think drugs have done some really good things. If you don't believe me, go home tonight, take all your cassettes, CDs, etc and burn them. Because those artists that have made that music were real fucking high- Bill Hicks
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