Doomsday !!! this ought to be popular..

I don't like thinking about this...That's why Mark comes here to talk!! LOL 

I'm with you, Boo.  I hate thinking about it... it frustrates me to no end, but it's a sad fact.  I believe that mother nature has a giant "RESET" button and she may end up pushing it before we have a chance to clean up our act.  And honestly?  I hate to say it but we deserve it.
 

2012..The END!

ORIGINAL: MhadDog

2012..The END!

Most likely true...if all else holds real.

(((screams)))

.. we're all gonna die!

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Why did I read this thread?  I HATE this kind of stuff.  It freaks me out and makes me depressed.  I'm going to the photo section now!

Awesome thread, MhadDog! It's like those personality tests interviewers give. I love observing our responses here in comparison to our record of behavior in the forums generally ... fascinatingly consistent. No one's post here has surprised me. [] We humans are such a predicatble lot!

As for me ... I am fascinated by post-apocalyptic flicks ... Omega Man, Mad Max, A Boy and His Dog, Waterworld even. But even more, I love the psychological studies like what you've laid out here ... kind of like that TV show "Lost" ... "What would you do if ...?" is a question that isn't asked often enough!

Mostly, though, I prefer to fantasize about peace-loving diplomats and sacrificial good folks, rather than mercenary survivalists. My best fantasies, regarding this, involve idyllic hidden communities of misfits who have come together in harmony ... I'd rather die quietly with that group than go out in a blaze of glory with the bad a$$es. (Makes me think of the French film "King of Hearts," in which the lunatic assylum inmates take over a town that was evacuated because the Germans booby-traped it at the end of WW1:http://www.alanbates.com/abarchive/film/king.html .)

But then, my favorite book is "Ishi: The Last of His Tribe" ... there's some real perspective in apocalyptic musings, as in we were someone else's doomsday:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi. It's a portrait of the last living Yahi tribesman in California, at the birth of the 20th Century. It's got lots of "fight to survive" but also, "don't take anyone out with you."

An asteroid may be headed this way.

 
I watched a special about a "super" comet hitting the earth, which would kill any mammal within 1,000 miles of impact nearly immediately. Then, about 99.5 percnt of the world population of humans and animals would succumb to ash fall out, lack of resources, then there would be an ice age as all the dust in the atmosphere would prevent sun from reaching the surface. In order to come up with this scenario, all they had to do was ignore established science, in favor of the science they wanted to show.
 
The theoretical super comet was 8 miles across. They shoot a super nuke at it. Direct hit but no course change. Here's where they ignore science. In 1945, we dropped our first atom bomb on Hiroshima. And literally wiped the city off of the planet. Today, we have nukes where one equals so many of just that one a-bomb. And they send one equal to so many hydrogen bombs at a target roughly the same size as the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and it does nothing? And why do we send only one? That's not explained. This scenario of shooting a nuke at it in space takes place 6 months before impact. And yet they only send one, albeit, one capable of obliterating a couple hundred square miles. See, when it comes to scaring people, it helps if you ignore Newton's 3rd Law of Motion. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

It's a portrait of the last living Yahi tribesman in California, at the birth of the 20th Century. It's got lots of "fight to survive

 
I once saw a movie made about that. It was interesting and sad.

Awesome thread, MhadDog! It's like those personality tests interviewers give. I love observing our responses here in comparison to our record of behavior in the forums generally ... fascinatingly consistent. No one's post here has surprised me. We humans are such a predicatble lot!

Oh crap - I knew I was being watched.  []   Should have taken the time to add that by the time the end comes, most of us will want out - for that very reason.  No one will be able to turn in any direction without some buttinsky watching them, and everything they do, and complaining about it to the nearest "big brother".  1984 is coming, just a tad late. []

Currently Ron, there is legislation in place prohibiting the detonation of nuclear devices in space.  I think it may even go as far as the prevention of putting fissible material into orbit height. 
 

   1984 is coming, just a tad late. []

 
It's creeping closer every minute.  Look at the UK, where they have cameras set up all over the place. 

Don't worry, Ebola will take care of the situation.  I believe the Ebola Zaire strain has a 90% mortality rate...one schmuck on an airplane with that and we'll go from 6 Billion down to 600,000 in population within a year.   Ever read The Hot Zone?  Just don't eat while you're reading the first few chapters. 

ORIGINAL: spiritdogs
Oh crap - I knew I was being watched. [] Should have taken the time to add that by the time the end comes, most of us will want out - for that very reason. No one will be able to turn in any direction without some buttinsky watching them, and everything they do, and complaining about it to the nearest "big brother". 1984 is coming, just a tad late. []

I like to call this the "Princess Di Paradox" ... people exhibit their lives publicly, enjoying their fame, then complain about their lack of privacy. []

It also reminds me of that Mike Myers' Simon skit "Don't look at my bum! I don't look at your bum, bum-looker! Cheeky monkey!" [][][]



Lookatme ... no, don'tlookatme! [] Peek-a-boo! []

ORIGINAL: g33

Don't worry, Ebola will take care of the situation.  I believe the Ebola Zaire strain has a 90% mortality rate...one schmuck on an airplane with that and we'll go from 6 Billion down to 600,000 in population within a year.   Ever read The Hot Zone?  Just don't eat while you're reading the first few chapters. 

 
First, your math is a bit off.  At 90% mortality rate we'd go from 6B to 60M. 
 
Secondly, Ebola and Marburg aren't successful virii, they haven't evolved to the point where they can spread effectively like the cold virus.  They kill their hosts too rapidly.  If a person infected with either of those diseases were to get on a intercontinental flight, they would most likely be bleeding out before the flight landed.  The flight would be quarantined, and all aboard detained and sequestered by the CDC. 
 
Now if those diseases were to evolve then we'd have a problem.  But as it is, the death rate is too high and death comes too quickly to spread at the alarming rate that any of the influenzas do.
 
We are due, however, for a "super flu" pandemic. 

I thought that Ebola had mutated (Ebola "Reston" strain) to be transmittable through the aire but as yet that was still only present in the monkey population.  At least at the time the book was published. 
 
Ebola Zaire isn't as dangerous as Marburg if memory serves...the author for that book had a pretty good argument as to why a massive burn of Ebola through the population would most likely take place through an intercontinental flight. 
 
Anyway - I do think that whatever "correction" that comes is going to come by way of disease.