Has science really made us better off? - General

If even Andomeda was already colliding with Milky Way, nothing would happen. Earth would still orbit around the sun. The chance of another star hitting us one to million.

Andromeda will reach us in 2.5 billion years. The chances of us smashing into another star are already incredibly slim. Besides, the natural cycle of the Earth will mean that we will have died from some sort of meteor storm, or we lost the race against global warming. Alternatively, the Doomsday theory takes hold, and we will destroy each other with weapons of mass destruction.

[QUOTE=CanibalMonke;17560337]Hey OP, does breathing make us better off? Do we really NEED air? Couldn't we just live without it?[/QUOTE] Only 1 way to try it out. [editline]09:45PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Tentacle;17569427]Andromeda will reach us in 2.5 billion years. The chances of us smashing into another star are already incredibly slim. Besides, the natural cycle of the Earth will mean that we will have died from some sort of meteor storm, or we lost the race against global warming. Alternatively, the Doomsday theory takes hold, and we will destroy each other with weapons of mass destruction.[/QUOTE] Why are we colliding with Andromeda?

[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;17541960]Besides medicine, do things like space travel, electricity, and cars really make our lives much better? couldn't we get along without it for thousands of years? I think that looking for extra terrestrial life is really the biggest waste of money ever. Do we really need to know if there are aliens on other planets? will it benefit us at all? with evolution (I believe in evolution) do we REALLY need to know how humans were created? is it REALLY that important?[/QUOTE] It goes both ways, it may be a waste of money to see if there is life on Mars, but we may discover something useful in the process. If we could find out more about how humans came about it would be easier to solve some of our problems and figure out why we have certain problems. There are all kinds of things that science has done for you that you don't even realize. While looking for life on Pluto or some distant star people have found out how to do several things that trickle down to consumer products that you use every day. And what is up with all the Global Warming people in this thread?

We humans have ability to think that some things could be better or we should know more about our surroundings. We can also change surroundings to our liking. It's not about science or how we could survive without it. It's about us how we are different from other animals. We can prosper and expand in way nothing else can and even more important we can spread life to areas/planets that could not other way support them.

brb bubonic plague

cavemen killed each other with logs. where the fuck was science then?

[QUOTE=Manwtfgarry;17577742]cavemen killed each other with logs. where the fuck was science then?[/QUOTE] Science =/= morality

[QUOTE=jiggu;17570185]Why are we colliding with Andromeda?[/QUOTE] Because of man's greatest enemy... ... Gravity :argh:

[QUOTE=jiggu;17570185]Only 1 way to try it out. [editline]09:45PM[/editline] Why are we colliding with Andromeda?[/QUOTE] You see, when two galaxies really like each other, their gravity brings them closer until they collide.

[QUOTE=Manwtfgarry;17577742]cavemen killed each other with logs. where the fuck was science then?[/QUOTE] Science was right there. They found they could hit with more force than punching by swinging a club. Basically, that was the first use of the lever, a simple machine. :science:

[QUOTE=sltungle;17561398]We've been over that further up on the page. I've done experiments with refraction and such, and yes, it appears to travel slower (sometimes it appears to travel a LOT slower, even half of the speed of light in a vacuum). However I think technically it travels at the same speed, just there's a lot of absorbing and remitting of light going on in that medium.[/QUOTE] Speed of light is a constant, so yes, it's always going the same speed. Due to us being observers with different perspectives, that's not always obvious. Light refracts, or changes direction, but keeps the same speed until affected by massive gravity.