Thanks Splave. This thread needed that.

Bah. Government, war, famine, overpopulation, environment......we'll be culled, but humanity will survive. No need for us to active

As a species, the only absolute and inevitable threat to our existence will be from an asteroid or our own yellow star (cue Kal and Jor).

You want to talk about long term species survival? Then write your congressfolk to ramp up NASA funding and stop piddling around with global warming and social programs. Or better yet, start sending money to Virgin Galactic - cause private galactic travel is truly what will take us elsewhere.

THIS!!!!

I laugh. This is all insignificant banter by a few individuals, in the end. Things will always return to the horrible way that they are because the same types of people continue to come to power and maintain the status quo. The simple fact is that people who are rich make up more of the overall income earned today than they did in 1930. So much so, that its almost increased by a factor of 10.

We need to reform the way wealth is distributed prior to doing anything else, because this is an unsustainable system. We're getting recessions every 10 years. That's not normal. We're going into debt that is literally unpayable, that's not normal. We're going to war in place that have no significance to us, that's not normal.

We need to re-evaluate the way we let our country be run. And I'm not talking about these whack ass tea parties or any political party, they all have some sort of an end game. Fuck them all.

Give me ultimate power and I promise to fix this once and for all. Then I will step down and fix this democracy for once. (hehehe get who I am?).