Things you wonder about.

monseiur · 28-10-2025 10:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123941996#Comment_123941996

…..yea right ! And in 20 or 30 years from now when it will no longer be cool to be an climate change warrior the usual suspects will try to convince us that climate change is no longer an issue because of positive actions taken by a tiny minority of the global population like driving electric cars, flooding a few bogs, etc. etc. and some will be gullible enough to believe it.

Now while on the subject ……I often wondered what caused the last ice age and the many previous ones and furthermore what caused our planet to gradually get warmer again.??

What caused the mini ice age that lasted from roughly the 14th to 19th century?

What caused the medieval warm period that lasted from roughly 900 AD to 1300 AD ?

The inconvenient truth is that our climate is always changing, it fact by it's very nature it can never ever stand still. Sometimes change happens over thousands of years other times over hundreds, change could be local or worldwide

Was it Hitler that said in his book Mein Kampf that people could be induced to believe a colossal lie because they could not imagine that someone could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.

magicbastarder · 28-10-2025 10:50PM

The inconvenient truth is that our climate is always changing

'but your honour, people are always dying so who are you to say me killing someone was wrong?'

New Home · 28-10-2025 10:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123944944#Comment_123944944

Exactly.

Cognitive dissonance is more widespread that one would think.

kneemos · 29-10-2025 05:42AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123944940#Comment_123944940

The argument from the climate scientists is that we're rapidly speeding up the process with our emissions. Fossil fuels are finite anyway, probably no harm to be switching to renewables.

When I was a young feller an ice age was the thing that was going to wipe us all out.

kowloonkev · 29-10-2025 06:40AM

In a few hundred years or a thousand years will Hitler be considered a bit of a cool dude like Genghis Khan? Do all evil rulers end up being revered?

monseiur · 30-10-2025 10:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123945160#Comment_123945160

It will take more than a few thousand years for the current prime minister of israel to be considered cool or be revered. I couldn't bring myself to print his evil name or use capital letters

Bogey Lowenstein · 30-10-2025 10:47PM

Which Boards user has the most posts?

Kaybaykwah · 31-10-2025 01:13AM

I have always wondered why there weren’t more than 7 wonders of the world.

josip · 31-10-2025 01:31AM

Is any other Boards user posting at the moment US based?

Ozymandius2011 · 31-10-2025 05:14AM

Are UFOs actually military aircraft.

Hamsterchops · 31-10-2025 06:28AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123950420#Comment_123950420

All UFO means is Unidentified Flying Object, so the unidentified object might be a balloon or a kite or a bird, or in very recent times a drone. Some people think Unidentified means aliens, which is not the case. If you want a real head scratching UFO story check out the Tic Tac / Nimmitz sighting 2004 with Dave Fravor (US pilot). Still unidentified, whatever it was.

Pauliedragon · 31-10-2025 01:44PM

If social media was to disappear tommorow what would happen to the world.

silliussoddius · 01-11-2025 05:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123950420#Comment_123950420

Some are, others are as simple as airplanes.
Here is an example from someone who sells himself as a former government insider getting fooled by an irrigation circle.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/shocking-1000-ft-ufo-photo-144711676.html

A recent thing being misidentified are starlink satellites that reflect sun on their underside.
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/starlink-flares-can-fool-anyone-even-airline-pilots/

randd1 · 03-11-2025 03:03PM

From a sci-fi perspective. Will 200 years from now be more Star Trek or Fallout?

Capt'n Midnight · 04-11-2025 11:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123959277#Comment_123959277

We are living in a Brave New World though a small number of people who already have more money than anyone would ever need are trying to turn it into 1984.

The Greeks reckoned a benevolent dictatorship was the best government, though power corrupts. The EU is probably good as compared to the US where corporations rule (you better have money) or China where it's State control (you better have god social credit)

Star Trek is technobabble. Science Fantasy. Teleporters are murder etc. The prime directive is more like a guideline. Not going to happen. But yes global GDP is enough to give every human a decent life if an aeroplane full of psychopaths didn't keep hoarding money.

/RANT

Capt'n Midnight · 04-11-2025 11:57PM

How did life start ?

Chemical reactions to provide the building blocks are demonstrable. Concentrating them by providing catalytic surfaces on rocks or black smokers or ponds are all probable. Tides were way bigger and more frequent back then too so lots of churning.

But how did the first self replicating molecule form ? And was it RNA ?

And how did pathways necessary for photosynthesis form ?

kneemos · 05-11-2025 08:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963598#Comment_123963598

The plane full of physchos aren't hoarding money in fairness. Their net worth is based on what they'd get if they sold everything. A lot of it being notional stock value.

Bezos for example employs twenty five odd thousand in Amazon.

Wanderer78 · 05-11-2025 08:37AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963828#Comment_123963828

and how many businesses has amazon destroyed over its lifetime, and how many has it sent to the dole over that time? then of course theres amazons impeccable treatment of its workers! amazon is just a giant rent seeker, sucking the life out of economies all over the planet, and ultimately helping to accumulate wealth for a very small percentage of humans, so, is it really all that good!

Bogey Lowenstein · 05-11-2025 08:44AM

When the hair on your head just keeps growing, why does body hair stop growing at a certain length? How does body hair know that it has been cut and it needs to start growing again?

magicbastarder · 05-11-2025 08:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963870#Comment_123963870

AFAIK the follicles on your body grow hair for a certain length of time and then let it fall out; so it never gets past a certain length. the follicles on your head just keep growing.

magicbastarder · 05-11-2025 09:03AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963598#Comment_123963598

Teleporters are murder etc.

i've often thought that teleporters sound like a good thing superficially, but would be really bad in practice.

e.g. something bad happens somewhere in the world. every f'ing ghoul in the world transports there to video it for their social media page (i recently learned there is a term for this sort of person - a 'clout goblin')

some lunatic leader in a democratic country manages to foment a stampede on the main government building in their capital city. every mouthbreathing oik with guns tattooed on their body teleports there to join in.

etc. etc.

New Home · 05-11-2025 09:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963908#Comment_123963908

There is some evidence that the final length of your hair(s) is down to genetics, hair strands will get to a certain point and then fall off, it won't keep growing indefinitely. How long that is varies from person to person.

Badly Drunk Boy · 05-11-2025 10:12AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963916#Comment_123963916

The lunatic leader could just get Colm Meaney to lock on the protestors and transport them into the sea.

Bogey Lowenstein · 05-11-2025 10:20AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123963949#Comment_123963949

Then people with the werewolf syndrome, their hair just keeps growing, the genes must have gone wonky.

Hoop66 · 05-11-2025 10:33AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123942035#Comment_123942035

Back in about 1946/47, Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher & peace activist actually suggested that it would be morally less disastrous for the US to destroy the USSR before they developed nuclear weapons, as once both sides had them it would inevitably follow that a global nuclear war would break out.

ollaetta · 05-11-2025 10:45AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123950201#Comment_123950201

And how do they get to that total? I'm a regular on the site but only have a modest post count. It baffles me how much time you'd need to spend posting to reach the umpteen thousand figure that a lot of posters have.