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barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
edited March 2007 in A Moving Train
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. :D
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
but the illusion of knowledge.
~Daniel Boorstin

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~Albert Einstein
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  • Milhouse VanHoutenMilhouse VanHouten Posts: 755
    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. :D

    I'm pulling for Machine Rebellion, it'd be so poetic to be wiped out by our own technological advancements. Maximum Overdrive.
    "Of course it hurts. You're getting fucked by an elephant."
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    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. ;)
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • Milhouse VanHoutenMilhouse VanHouten Posts: 755
    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?
    "Of course it hurts. You're getting fucked by an elephant."
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    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!!
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • Milhouse VanHoutenMilhouse VanHouten Posts: 755
    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.
    "Of course it hurts. You're getting fucked by an elephant."
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    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.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    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'.
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    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?
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    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.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • NMyTreeNMyTree Posts: 2,374
    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. :D

    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 VanHoutenMilhouse VanHouten Posts: 755
    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!
    "Of course it hurts. You're getting fucked by an elephant."
  • B niceB nice Posts: 182
    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
    life has nothing to do with killing time
    Bring it on cause I'm no victim

    b nice loves pearl jam like ed vedder loves america
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    NMyTree wrote:
    Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake recording and releasing new albums.


    Hey now, I'm trying to keep this thread positive! ;)
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    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.
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    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. ;)
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • B niceB nice Posts: 182
    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
    life has nothing to do with killing time
    Bring it on cause I'm no victim

    b nice loves pearl jam like ed vedder loves america
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    B nice wrote:
    genius
    and very inside

    word ;)
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • gossardstradlingossardstradlin Posts: 324
    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 :)
    "She knows there is no success like failure
    And that failure's no success at all."

    "Don't ya think its sometimes wise not to grow up."

    "Cause life ain't nothing but a good groove
    A good mixed tape to put you in the right mood."
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    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.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • lucylespianlucylespian Posts: 2,403
    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 !!
    Music is not a competetion.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    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.

    Well we already have the Terminator governing a state so I think we're on the way. :p
  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    B nice wrote:
    jesus inflicted the dinosaurs with bird flu because they did believe he was the messiah...boy were they wrong , obviously
    baraka wrote:
    Your post has a familiar ring to it.............

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

    Bah! You are both fools! Jesus IS Bigfoot! :D
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Humans will cease to exist someday, whether its tomorrow or a billion years from now. Think about it. Our Sun will one day die.
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    Ahnimus wrote:
    No, I think we have enough genetic variance to survive a epidemic like the Ebola Virus.

    We would survive Ebola, because it's not a very successful virus. But I know what you are saying. A successful virus would still leave some survivors. Viruses scare me because I work with them and I know the potential and probability of a pandemic is very likely. Asteroids & Aliens.....not so much.
    Ahnimus wrote:
    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.

    No it wouldn't cover the planet in lava, but supposedly, if Yellowstone erupted, it would cover 1000 miles in lava and it wouldn't take too long for the rest of the world to be effected.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    Got another one, similar to the machine revolt. How about nanotechnology (which is fascinating, btw)?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo

    This one is interesting, although I don't think it's very accepted in the scientific community

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_shift_theory
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    The Chinese are going to create an army of human/Yeti hybrids with which to conquer the world. That's why the capture of Nepal is so important to their long range plans. This army will turn on the human race causing the U.S. to release a secret, but uncontrollable, biological agent that will render all life on this planet kaput.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • barakabaraka Posts: 1,268
    :eek:

    Molecular nanotechnology goes awry!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecophagy
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • BarkingDogsBarkingDogs Posts: 280
    I vote for Mad Cow Disease...
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  • farfromglorifiedfarfromglorified Posts: 5,696
    I don't know...they all sound fun.
  • onelongsongonelongsong Posts: 3,517
    Ahnimus wrote:
    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.

    global warming is already wiping us out.
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