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From your earlier comment, your curiosity was more about what happens after we run out. In your question you stated the running out as a given fact ("When" we
by jcattle 7mo ago
From your earlier comment, your curiosity was more about what happens after we run out.
In your question you stated the running out as a given fact ("When" we run out, not "if").
If that was what you wanted to say I can't tell you, but that's definitely how it was received and thus you also got the harsh response. Since it reads a lot like doomsday thinking.
(Example: Does that mean when we run out of oxygen there are no more humans?
Why would we run out?)
- pixl97 7mo ago?Why would we run out?) Of oxygen, because of rising temperatures interacting with rock weathering binding all the oxygen. Now, that's more of something to worry about at geological time scales, but Earth in fact, is not infinite.
- ta9000 7mo agoI love that you countered pedantry with pedantry. <3
- ta9000 7mo agoYes, my curiosity was about when we run out, because I didn’t know if we would run out. That was the whole point of the question. Have some leniency, we’re not all experts about everything.
- margalabargala 7mo ago> my curiosity was about when we run out, because I didn’t know if we would run out You still seem to be missing the point. If you talk about "when we run out", you are presenting yourself as an expert stating "we will run out" and asking about the aftermath. It would be appropriate, and better received with more leniency, for you to ask whether we would run out.
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- ta9000 7mo agoThat’s not rational. Why would I be asking such a simple question if I were an expert?
- margalabargala 7mo agoExactly, that self-contradiction is part of why you were downvoted so heavily. Because you presented yourself to the world as irrational.
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