We will need two planets by 2030

I remember the turn of the century was supposed to be the END also. There is big money in promoting the end. Just ask the Pentecostals. And if the Mayans were so fuc--ng smart then why did they only last 300 years????

well the world is going to end in 2012 anyways, whats all the fuss about?

This does not bode well for my retirement plans...

yes and the world will end in 2012, y2k did happen...

humans can't predict things for s**t

Naw with the economy the way it is now, we probably should take the money straight outta the bank via world debit card. Don't spend it if ya don't have it!

A second planet, can we put that on a credit card, or maybe write a check?

Well seemingly we do need a catalyst....however these catalyst have already happen it's sad we didn't learn from history (Blank Plague killing 2/3rds of the population, asteroid killing the dinosaurs, cosmic radiation killing the trilobites)....it is quite sad that we need yet another reminder before there can be real change.

It is a pessimistic climate for sure, everything seems to be going downhill.... do we need a catalyst to change things around?

or we are bound to a catalist event as our only solution to get out of this nastiness

yeah ... it doesn't look very good does it?
decades of time have been wasted concerning this unbalanced crisis...
the drastic changes needed are up against the powers of the profit driven status quo

Well we'd better hurry up and order that planet. Shipping usually takes 3-6 decades...

not impressed. we are not using all of the earths resources, just too many of the irreplaceable ones; aka fossil fuels. business has clouded everyones thinking. take a plane across the united states and see how much of its land is not even populated. alternative fuels are the answer.

I won't leave this planet. Earth is the only place I will ever call home. I was born on this planet and I intend to die on it as well. My connection to this planet is through the outdoors, I refuse to live on a space station, or in a bubble dome on some barren planet.

i'm actually kind of reasurred by the fact that we *don't* have another planet to turn to and spoil, as this way at least we have a chance of realising how much we're unsustainably exploiting our resources. Whether we realise early enough is another question.

Oh I'm not worried, we'll have blown up/killed/otherwise destroyed half the world's population by 2030 anyway...

Oil is a resource that can run out and we will still survive.

Fresh water and food on the other hand will be a different story altogether.

I think we should all work on persuading people in places like Barbados and Hawaii that this second planet is amazing and they'd love it there. They then up sticks and move and bingo - beaches, sand and sun for the rest of us!

I WONDER WHERE THE SECOND PLANET WILL COME FROM. MAYBE WE WILL INVENT A WAY TO ATTRACT A PLANET AND COAX IT TO US OR MAYBE WE WILL JUST SIMPLY MAKE ANOTHER ONE. I REALLY DON'T KNOW JUST SOME IDEAS.

how the hell did this get from ecological disaster to terrorism and modern american conservatism?

Anyway, I know what will happen.
We'll all worry for a while then we'll forget and carry on guzzling energy fuels in a way of life we've got used to.
The only way this can be avoided is if governments put practices in to change our lifestyle.
Few people can be bothered, or is knowledgeable on how, to change their ways.
Bring it on. It'll be like waterworld but covered in rubbish.

This planet and mother nature has always had a way of getting rid of any organism that is destroying the planet. Don't worry, there will be something that will slow down the advance of man. One we haven't thought of is the third world trying to take over.

You know those stone age people that flew the planes into the WTC. All they want is to rid themselves of us so they can come over here and have what we have. As though they could run the technology we have created. They justify it by religious means which is another way of saying "mother nature".

Ever wonder why over the past 4 months people have been buying hand guns, rifles, shotguns by the train load and the concealed carry courses have been over run. This past weekend I attended a course that put over 400 people through in two days here in Florida. I'm sure it's more in other places. We have just elected a man? who thinks share the wealth, well everyone's wealth but his, that is.

We will have a new friendlier America avoid of its terrorist symbols like its flag. Here is a man who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, grew up privileged then realized he was half black then realized he could use his blackness to be angry is almost running the country and he hasn't taken the oath of office yet. We, or those who voted for him, wanted something new and fresh, like Jimmy Carter was. I watch that man smile and it always seems there is something else behind the smile. Something else he is holding back to spring on us later. He cannot just smile. Watch his eyes.

Anyway, he wants to spread the wealth, which means your tax dollars and mine. "Everyone is happy when everything can be spread around and everyone can have stuff", Obama. You know I only want the stuff I work for or I make with my two hands. I don't want someone else's stuff given to me. That won't happen cuz I'm in a tax bracket they take from. Well, if he wants my guns he will take them from my cold dead hands. Than is all I care to tell him.

At least I can sit back and say, "you elected him, not me",

The Venus project is nothing more than some communists ideal with overtones of peace and "Futuristic" graphic renderings.

Watched the youtube video.
I would like to point out the fact that the calendar was created in the year 3372 BC. On December 21, 2012 the Mayan calendar will be obsolete. On that day everyone who uses it to gauge time should toss the calendar out, step out of there time capsule, and purchase a regular calendar.

Dumbest story i have heard all month. The Malthusian Principle will not occur for a while, so get over this ecological Armageddon theme, which has seemed to be coming for the last 200 years...

oh people you get so excited. don't you see the solution is simple? just take even more resources away from third worlders and maybe undercut some of the current and growing first worlders (hint: china russia) with a senseless war or two. another world war would seriously be great for population control as well! then we'll have plenty of resources to continue blogging and buying to our hearts content. We can even use satellites and shareware sites every now and then to look in and see how miserable everyone else is.

...YAY!!

Personally I am excited that I might live to see such sights in my lifetime. Such global catastrophes and changes first hand would be like living in a disaster movie. I hate the complacency that we have all become addicted to.

Rock the boat. Don't rock the boat baby. Rock the boat. Don't rock the boat baby. ooo oooo

Now if only we could put as many resources behind sustaining the earth as we do going to war- then maybe we'd have some bigger and better solutions to this mind-boggling problem.

It is all about a thing we call evolution, which does NOT mean some sort of progression toward a percieved perfection of nobility. It simply means adapting to what is going on in the surround world. Many are missing the present evolution.

When population control becomes a human issue, that always creeps me out. We shouldn't play God.

why do humans need to survive/perpetuate? if we're such a scourge then why not take out some friends (not to dinner)?

the way i see it we have two options
1) lots of people using very little
2) few people using whatever they need

these are the extremes and we're sorta floating in the middle now but eventually we will have to decide or the decision will be made for us (cmon anitbiotic resistant germs).

This...is not possible. Why not be practical about the issue and start fixing our planet NOW?

Reuse your grocery bags, recycle your beer bottles, save every drop of water, people! YES WE CAN!

I think space colonization will happen one day, although it will be a very long time from now before we start seeing widespread settlement.

I grew up reading Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, and science fiction stories and I would be very happy if they could one day become reality just like Jules Verne's stores did.

"humanity’s demand for goods"...lol, well there are more important things then money and goods.....there are many things that can cause the extinction of the human race (super virus, super bacteria, Asteroid, plague, bad aliens, cosmic radiation, nuclear Holocaust, ice age, destroyed environment...) by increasing taxes by 1-2% we can colonize the moon and mars in no time.....we will need this extra insurance to make sure the human race survives (we are not that much better the all those other species in earth history that got wiped out by global clatacisuum)....a global event that brings the human race to its knees is bound to happen maybe not today or tomorrow but if one colony gets wiped out at least we will have others.....people worry about short term problems we should be trying to make sure the species servives no matter what (real goal should be to colinize not only other planets but other glaxies(going to take a while) that way no single event could possibly destroy the human species)

Necesity is the mother of all invention.

I've been saying this for years...literally years.

I don't understand the image used

I've said this before- but often times I wish that humanity could share a global near death experience. Something that would make us change on the dime.

Two?
How are going to get to those planets?
How much is this going to cost us?
Where?
What can I take with me?
What kind of planets?