101 and still talks common sense.

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He'd like to meet Galileo - I'd like to meet him!

I'd have been hard pressed to speak so eloquently for so long about anything at all at half his age or less without writing it all down first.

Fancy that about hamsters? Much like knowing whether frogs can get athletes foot or not, it probably isn't actually a terribly useful thing for me to learn ......
 
Ah the hamsters. It takes a peculiar and free-thinking mind to go from a curious observation about freezing hamsters to recognising the need for a completely new way of measuring something and then satisfying that need. He is my hero because he never gets uptight about the fact that people without his intellect dismiss his ideas. He knows that the view of the world he has is perfectly logical and valid and that is good enough for him.
 
It sounds perfectly logical to me too. Only thing is, what actually is the Lifespan of the World?
 
That was so interesting, I never heard of him at all, my bad. The hamsters! Good grief. I wonder how they felt when they came round, frozen and then banged on the head to add insult to injury, where's the RSPCA when you need them! :D
 
Glad you found him interesting Ditto.

TW, if you believe the current interpretation of the physical world, then the lifespan of the earth is infinite. It will eventually become cold, dark and unable to sustain life as we know it as the output of the sun declines and I don't think even the Gaia hypothesis suggested by Lovelock would suggest that the earths systems could cope with that.

Underlying Gaia is the idea that the organic and inorganic components of the world act in unity to benefit the system as a whole. An example is climate change. Man, an organic component, does things that influence the balance of gasses in the atmosphere. Those changes in the atmosphere, an inorganic component, cause changes in the climate which make life uncomfortable. This will eventually cause populations to decline, fixing the problem.
 
That's a bit simplified @Docb. Climate change will ultimately cause conflict as mass migration occurs because of inability to grow food. The haves will try to keep their lifestyles while the have nots suffer. Wars will break out all over the world, and someone is bound to press the big red button. Malthus never conceived of nuclear weapons.

That's how the world will end, not with a whimper, more a prolonged bang. Some of us will survive, in the new mediaeval age. But we will become smaller, as chronic malnutrition becomes the norm. The barter economy will prevail. No electricity, no phones, no books.

That's how Gaia will fix things.

There will still be football, mind. There always is🙂
 
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