What is the greatest mistake in mankinds history?
>Nuclear technology was a mistake
Its been actually very useful in many different areas including healthcare
KLEINDEUTSCHE LÖSUNG
not nuclear technology, nuclear weapons
Do you feel that humanity is likely to kill itself off before it is capable of traveling light years away?
I was watching videos about space, and I really came to understand just how incapable we are as a species currently (possibly for the next millennium) to travel a single light-year. It is 6 trillion miles after all. I just got to thinking that the quantum leap in technology would have to be so massive before humanity caved in and died.
Everything in our current culture seems so ass backwards, I mean, the Kardashian's alone as a concept is egregious. It seems so banal to me, and yet millions of millions are aware of them and not a single pioneer in a scientific field, save Elon Musk. Shit, even I'm guilty of this.
Are we going to kill ourselves off before we reach another hospitable planet?
>>2347128
Let's be honest traveling to another star system is a pipe dream, but what's got me really excited is conquering our own solar system.
>>2347174
I just read an article that humanity, in a physical sense, is only realistically going to colonize Mars whereas the rest of the planets will be explored via whatever robots we poop out.
Experiencing Pluto through neural VR thanks to nanobots making use of solar sails is my best guess.
But I agree. Don't know why now but I just have this feeling of excitement in my gut of what is to be of humanity in the next thousand or so years. What we've done in the past 50 is absolutely insane.
It's because humanity isn't connected enough; the connections we have now are too superficial. We're in a transitional phase right now.
Tell me more on what actually happened on this, because there's no way it was as simple as Republicans becoming Democrats and vice-versa.
It wasn't really a switch desu.
>>2345616
It wasn't a switch. Just two parties changing with the winds of their voter blocks.
>>2345616
Dems changed at their core, but theu didn't switch with Republicans, who are, at their core, the same party Lincoln founded.
If an action or choice is undetermined, why is it not just random or a matter of pure chance?
Free will is indefensible.
>>2344363
Imagine someone is paying you to give the best defense you can.
What's your tactic on the randomness argument?
>>2344374
I could honestly not do it.
Should I convert to Islam?
>>2343506
Yes
They'll never accept a larping white boy into the mosque anyway, Islam is not the 90s Buddhism craze all over again.
>>2343506
how are you gonna do that? explain.
How did California become America's most populated and economically powerful state?
location, location, location
>>2340971
gold, gold, gold
>>2340971
Because it had such a huge territory, imagine a single state spanning from Boston to North Carolina.
Realistically it should be partitioned into three separate states at least.
Is it possible to go on vacation to Turkey and see the significant architectural legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire today? Or has it all been pulled down/left to rot/replaced with mosques?
>He asks, while posting a 6th century Byzantine cathedral that still stands
>>2338477
Why destroy when you can WE WUZ?
>>2338497
>that is now a mosque
You're only proving his point.
Who would win in a battle, A european knight or a Samurai?
>>2335368
European knight hands down
I keep seeing the term 'moralfag' being said. Is there anything wrong with living with a set of principles? Or are these edgy teenagers who are saying it?
Inb4 spook posting
Usually pedophiles here use "moralfag" as an insult for someone who reports them to the mods
>>2350443
Used almost exclusively by egoists and people who jack off to gore/rekt threads.
>>2350270
Photoshop
It doesn't make sense that giants would exist in asia as asians have historically been the smallest manlets
>>2350270
That's a big guy
>>2350270
Nephilim
Give me a slow rundown on Diogenes, founder of cynicism and near told Alexander the Great himself to fuck off because he blocked the sunlight.
And ontop of that; Alexander the Great told his followers the moment after that if he were not Alexander the Great, he would be Diogenes.
He was basically the GG Allin of his time, except virtuous instead of angry.
>>2350153
So he was the Lou Reed of his time?
>>2350159
That works too.
how does one dude dying cause a world war?
>>2350135
because the countries already wanted war
It doesn't, it just triggers it.
>>2350135
When youre looking for an excuse to start a war, pretty much anything will do.
What would the world be like without Christianity?
[spoiler]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwc9MkqQs7i-WEx1Ti1leTlRU2c/view[/spoiler]
>>2349983
[spoiler]>trying to do spoilers on /his/[/spoiler]
>>2349983
We would be exploring space by now
This is your obligatory Byzantium thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFHK4qObNm0
too theocratic for me to get interested
not enough science and philosophy going on because "god did it so"
quite stable though
What's interesting about the byzantine empire apart from the horse races?
>>2349979
They drove artistic convention for a long time
First of, apologies for another ww2 thread. I know there's probably like 10 of them each hour.
But the saying "germany would have won the war if he would've listened to his genreals"
I fully understand that what ever the germans did they probably didin't have the manpower or the resources to fully "win" the war. I assume that maybe they could've come to an stalemate or a peace agreement ?
But was Hitler really this super retard who fucked over his generals, or is it just his generals trying to wash them selves clean for whatever failures and bad ideas themselves had and instead blamed it all on Hitler ? I mean Hitler died, it's not like he could defend his actions afterwards.
>>2349856
>I assume that maybe they could've come to an stalemate or a peace agreement ?
Unlikely, given the political situation in September of 1939. You already had a lot of ill-will towards Germany pre-existing, and Hitler rapidly re-arming and breaking several treaties just in the last few years means that very few of his peace offers would be trusted. He has to win totally, or lose.
>But was Hitler really this super retard who fucked over his generals, or is it just his generals trying to wash them selves clean for whatever failures and bad ideas themselves had and instead blamed it all on Hitler ?
A bit of both, really. Hitler also got more interfering and erratic as the war went on, when it meant less and less as Germany's position was getting increasingly hopeless.
>>2349883
thanks for the response !
>>2349856
>I assume that maybe they could've come to an stalemate or a peace agreement?
NO; THE ZIONIST ALLIES WOULD NEVER HAVE ALLOWED A NATIONAL SOCIALIST EMPIRE TO PERSIST, NOR WOULD THEY HAVE ALLOWED NATIONAL SOCIALISM ITSELF TO PERSIST IN ANY ACTUAL FORM.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR WAS NOT MERELY A SOCIOPOLITICAL CONFLICT, BUT AN IDEOLOGICAL, AND ETHICOMORAL, ONE.
>But was Hitler really this super retard who fucked over his generals, or is it just his generals trying to wash them selves clean for whatever failures and bad ideas themselves had and instead blamed it all on Hitler ? I mean Hitler died, it's not like he could defend his actions afterwards.
NO; THE POPULAR NOTION THAT ADOLF HITLER MADE MULTIPLE STRATEGIC, AND TACTICAL, ERRORS, NEGLECTING MORE INFORMED OPINIONS, AND ADVICE, FROM HIS GENERALS, IS SPURIOUS, MAINLY ARISING FROM POSTWAR RATIONALIZATIONS BY MANY OF THOSE GENERALS WHO WERE INCAPABLE OF COMPREHENDING MANY OF ADOLF HITLER'S STRATEGIC, AND TACTICAL, DECISIONS —EXEMPLUM GRATIA: DUNKIRK.
THE THIRD REICH LOST THE WAR MAINLY DUE TO LOGISTICAL DEFICIENCY, NOT TO TACTICAL, NOR STRATEGIC, ERRORS.