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Bleu · 05-23-2013, 07:35 PM

http://world.time.com/timelapse/

Hollylane · 05-23-2013, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Bleu

http://world.time.com/timelapse/

Way cool, but mostly scary...

Bleu · 05-24-2013, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Hollylane

Way cool, but mostly scary...

I'm pickin' up what you're layin' down Miss Hollylane.

Big picture, Pangaea existed 300M years ago and then began to slowly crack apart and break up 200M years ago.
Put in that perspective there has been minuscule change.
Just an ebbing and flowing, really.

thedivahrrrself · 05-24-2013, 11:57 AM

I called an engineer to set up an interview today and caught myself impersonating Yoda. "Good news I have," said I.

torchiegirl · 05-24-2013, 07:34 PM

Hollylane · 05-24-2013, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Bleu

I'm pickin' up what you're layin' down Miss Hollylane.

Big picture, Pangaea existed 300M years ago and then began to slowly crack apart and break up 200M years ago.
Put in that perspective there has been minuscule change.
Just an ebbing and flowing, really.

I guess for me, the observable and scary difference, between now and 200M years ago, is overpopulation, and the resulting irreversible damage to previously unpopulated and untouched areas. That just doesn't look like ebb and flow to me, and it doesn't look to be slowing down any time soon. The Earth seems to be changing much more rapidly now, then it did in the time of Pangaea...So, some of those images made me think about that...

Bleu · 05-25-2013, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Hollylane

I guess for me, the observable and scary difference, between now and 200M years ago, is overpopulation, and the resulting irreversible damage to previously unpopulated and untouched areas. That just doesn't look like ebb and flow to me, and it doesn't look to be slowing down any time soon. The Earth seems to be changing much more rapidly now, then it did in the time of Pangaea...So, some of those images made me think about that...

I hear you, sister.

Allison W · 05-29-2013, 10:25 PM

I kind of doubt that this means anything to anyone here except for myself and possibly Maryam, but for anyone familiar with the Glorantha setting, a community for it was just added on Google+:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communit...6267235?cfem=1

Suffice it to say the Glorantha team is feeling very energized by an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign they just had for a new great big two-volume book on the almost fifty-year-old setting.

I'm still trying to get that one Glorantha campaign my GM wanted to run with myself playing a young Vingan warrior, another player playing a young Nandan bard, and another player playing a blacksmith who follows Gustbran the Bonesmith off the ground. She seems to be one of those people for whom the grass is always greener on the other side: she has so much trouble getting excited about anything that's already on the plate.

thedivahrrrself · 05-30-2013, 11:15 AM

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thedivahrrrself Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Sapiosexual Femme Relationship Status: Mrs. Grumpy Cat Tournaments Won: 4 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: 8,660 feet high in the Andes Posts: 2,640 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,519 Thanked 11,657 Times in 2,292 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	__________________ Small business owners around the world use microfinance to help expand their businesses and provide for their families. You can help! Click here to learn about Kiva.

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05-29-2013, 10:25 PM	#8
Allison W Member How Do You Identify?: TG Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Loner Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 366 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,414 Thanked 1,195 Times in 319 Posts Rep Power: 12203815	I kind of doubt that this means anything to anyone here except for myself and possibly Maryam, but for anyone familiar with the Glorantha setting, a community for it was just added on Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communit...6267235?cfem=1 Suffice it to say the Glorantha team is feeling very energized by an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign they just had for a new great big two-volume book on the almost fifty-year-old setting. I'm still trying to get that one Glorantha campaign my GM wanted to run with myself playing a young Vingan warrior, another player playing a young Nandan bard, and another player playing a blacksmith who follows Gustbran the Bonesmith off the ground. She seems to be one of those people for whom the grass is always greener on the other side: she has so much trouble getting excited about anything that's already on the plate.