Countdown to Doomsay

baraka

I wanted to post something positive for a change .

I watched this on the Sci Fi channel several days ago & found it interesting. I was able to add a few more items to my list of 'end of the world' worries.

Here is the top 10 that the program noted.

Supervolcano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano)
Asteriod Impact
Global Pandemic
Mass Extinction
Giant Solar Flare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare)
Nuclear Terrorism
Global Warming
Gamma-Ray Burst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_burst)
Machine Rebellion
Alien Invasion (found this one strange)

Which one scares you? I'm partial to global pandemic, myself.

Milhouse VanHouten

baraka wrote:

I wanted to post something positive for a change .

I watched this on the Sci Fi channel several days ago & found it interesting. I was able to add a few more items to my list of 'end of the world' worries.

Here is the top 10 that the program noted.

Supervolcano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano)
Asteriod Impact
Global Pandemic
Mass Extinction
Giant Solar Flare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare)
Nuclear Terrorism
Global Warming
Gamma-Ray Burst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_burst)
Machine Rebellion
Alien Invasion (found this one strange)

Which one scares you? I'm partial to global pandemic, myself.

I'm pulling for Machine Rebellion, it'd be so poetic to be wiped out by our own technological advancements. Maximum Overdrive.

baraka

Milhouse VanHouten wrote:

I'm pulling for Machine Rebellion, it'd be so poetic to be wiped out by our own technological advancements. Maximum Overdrive.

Ha ha, indeed. This one creeps my husband out. Matrix, Terminator, I Robot, 2001 & 2010 (I don't think so, Dave). Hal was great.

Milhouse VanHouten

baraka wrote:

Ha ha, indeed. This one creeps my husband out. Matrix, Terminator, I Robot, 2001 & 2010 (I don't think so, Dave). Hal was great.

Shouldn't 'Rapture' be on the list?

baraka

Milhouse VanHouten wrote:

Shouldn't 'Rapture' be on the list?

Ha ha, your question totally confused me as I was still focusing on the machine rebellion. Hmm, I'm not sure how to answer the question. I'm sure there are those that would certainly include this on their list of 'worries', but I'm pretty sure it was not a concern for the ones that participated in the program. Alien invasion was on the list, so why not. So, where should it fall on the list? Somewhere between global warming and solar flares? Oh and how about those Supervolcanos? I'm scared of Yellow Stone National park now!!

Milhouse VanHouten

baraka wrote:

Ha ha, your question totally confused me as I was still focusing on the machine rebellion. Hmm, I'm not sure how to answer the question. I'm sure there are those that would certainly include this on their list of 'worries', but I'm pretty sure it was not a concern for the ones that participated in the program. Alien invasion was on the list, so why not. So, where should it fall on the list? Somewhere between global warming and solar flares? Oh and how about those Supervolcanos? I'm scared of Yellow Stone National park now!!

I suppose that the people who actually believed in the rapture wouldn't categorize it a fear of theirs. They'd probably be in favor of the world ending by rapture.

Alien invasion would be the flat-out coolest, but I won't be getting my hopes up.

Shit! Alien invasion combined with machine rebellion! Awesome.

Ahnimus

Well if you believe in the rapture, then it's probably going to be a cosmological event. Unless of course you take everything you read literally.

baraka

Milhouse VanHouten wrote:

I suppose that the people who actually believed in the rapture wouldn't categorize it a fear of theirs. They'd probably be in favor of the world ending by rapture.

You're right.

Milhouse VanHouten wrote:

Alien invasion would be the flat-out coolest, but I won't be getting my hopes up.

Shit! Alien invasion combined with machine rebellion! Awesome.

I dunno about cool, I guess it depends. The scientists on the program were talking about how silly most alien invasion movies are. They speculate, if the aliens are unfriendly or insensitive, that they would simply stay in orbit around the Earth and 'throw' rocks at us to cause chaos. It would be a little like asteroids hitting us & we probably would not even 'see' aliens before we were 'history'.

baraka

Ahnimus wrote:

Well if you believe in the rapture, then it's probably going to be a cosmological event. Unless of course you take everything you read literally.

We were being silly about the Rapture thing. Don't take everything you read literally . I kid, of course. So what doomsday scenario do you find interesting? Global warming? solar flares?

Ahnimus

baraka wrote:

We were being silly about the Rapture thing. Don't take everything you read literally . I kid, of course. So what doomsday scenario do you find interesting? Global warming? solar flares?

Well, we are likely to cause social collapse and result in WW3. I'm not sure if it will result in nuclear war or not, I also don't think our species would be totally extinct after a nuclear war. So, I'd have to go with a cosmological event wiping out the entire planet.

NMyTree

baraka wrote:

Here is the top 10 that the program noted.

Supervolcano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano)
Asteriod Impact
Global Pandemic
Mass Extinction
Giant Solar Flare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare)
Nuclear Terrorism
Global Warming
Gamma-Ray Burst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_burst)
Machine Rebellion
Alien Invasion (found this one strange)

Which one scares you? I'm partial to global pandemic, myself.

Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake recording and releasing new albums.

That scares me more than anything else I can think of. Ugh.....makes me shake and gives me shivers.

Milhouse VanHouten

baraka wrote:

I dunno about cool, I guess it depends. The scientists on the program were talking about how silly most alien invasion movies are. They speculate, if the aliens are unfriendly or insensitive, that they would simply stay in orbit around the Earth and 'throw' rocks at us to cause chaos. It would be a little like asteroids hitting us & we probably would not even 'see' aliens before we were 'history'.

Thanks for taking the fun out my robo-martian doomsday fantasy, scientists.

I want shiny suited humanoid lizard men to infiltrate society and ultimately either destroy the earth or colonize humanity. Is that too much to wish for? COME ON!

B nice

jesus inflicted the dinosaurs with bird flu because they did believe he was the messiah...boy were they wrong , obviously

btw.. how much did those big fuckers have to eat?? how was there enough food? crazy

baraka

NMyTree wrote:

Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake recording and releasing new albums.

Hey now, I'm trying to keep this thread positive!

baraka

Ahnimus wrote:

Well, we are likely to cause social collapse and result in WW3. I'm not sure if it will result in nuclear war or not, I also don't think our species would be totally extinct after a nuclear war. So, I'd have to go with a cosmological event wiping out the entire planet.

So you think a cosmological event will do us in opposed to, say, a virus or, better yet, a supervolcano? Supervolcanos are quite interesting. Yellowstone is due for another eruption.

baraka

B nice wrote:

jesus inflicted the dinosaurs with bird flu because they did believe he was the messiah...boy were they wrong , obviously

btw.. how much did those big fuckers have to eat?? how was there enough food? crazy

Your post has a familiar ring to it.............

and it wasn't Jesus who inflicted the birds, everyone knows it was bigfoot.

B nice

baraka wrote:

Your post has a familiar ring to it.............

and it wasn't Jesus who inflicted the birds, everyone knows it was bigfoot.

genius
and very inside

baraka

B nice wrote:

genius
and very inside

word

gossardstradlin

Ahnimus wrote:

Well, we are likely to cause social collapse and result in WW3. I'm not sure if it will result in nuclear war or not, I also don't think our species would be totally extinct after a nuclear war. So, I'd have to go with a cosmological event wiping out the entire planet.

Agree with Ahnimus here. Even a massive epidemic would not wipe out whole world. Have to be some sort of global collision with no hope of survival. Or aliens blow up are planet like Alderon

Ahnimus

baraka wrote:

So you think a cosmological event will do us in opposed to, say, a virus or, better yet, a supervolcano? Supervolcanos are quite interesting. Yellowstone is due for another eruption.

No, I think we have enough genetic variance to survive a epidemic like the Ebola Virus.

I don't see a supervalcano covering the entire planet in lava, and I know our species has already survived dozens of ice ages without any heating technology.

So, I'm going with someone like Nikola Tesla splitting the earth or a supernova.

lucylespian

Our toxic oxygen environment would eat your aliens I'm afraid.

BTW, did anybody else wonder about the fortuitous presence of an ideal oxygen environment on that prisn asteroid Vin Deisel was running around on in The Chronicles of Riddick ???

See, daily global warming with a total abscence of trees is nothing to worry about !!