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5 Kick-Ass Sci-Fi Apocalypses (That Could Actually Happen)
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#3.
Deadly Pandemic
As seen in:
How it goes down:
Society breaks apart as policemen get the sniffles, and the army is stretched thin. Cities burn as diseased rioters rage through the streets. Miracle cures pop up on every corner, and only stop when everyone in the neighborhood is too sick to get out of a bed filled with vomit and their own intestines. With not enough able-bodied people to manufacture goods or run the farms, the infrastructure breaks down and the survivors are left to battle it out in a post-apocalyptic battle royale.
Why it kicks ass:
Chances of it happening:
You see, we aren't the only ones who are evolving. Some types of Tuberculosis have kicked our current batch of antibiotics in the crotch, and since many pharmaceutical companies are more interested in filling our cabinets with lifestyle-enhancing drugs than new types of antibiotics, we may not have the meds to fight off the next pandemic that comes along. We've got more people, living closer together, and routinely traveling across oceans. One business traveler gets infected and it could spread like wildfire.
How to survive it (according to movies on the topic):
However, most sources found at our local video store simply depict the pandemic as already having happened, leaving only a select few survivors behind. So, either there is no hope of stopping one once it starts, or else we won't try very hard in hopes a peopleless world will finally give us the chance to ride a motorcycle through the Louvre. |
Derek from Bad Taste will save us all. Dereks don't take s**t from anyone. ANYONE.
Unfortunately for us Daleks can swim. Or at least, go along the bottom of the Thames
I just realized, we humans tend to worry about how we're all going to die a lot.
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murphy's law. sorry
robots don't have human instincts and notions like brotherhood, country. besides when humans make a complex plan about something it usually blows up in our faces. also take into account merfy's law
The robot problem would be easy, just have magnetic weapons, it'd f**k their circuits up reeeal good
If the purpose of the robots is to protect their country how would eliminating humanity be a solution..
The robot problem is easy. Just make sure everyone lives nearby factories which have random pits of incredibly hot robot-killing lava placed inside.
great article. Whenever I think of world ending catastrophes nowadays all I can think of is the movie Idiocrisy where stupid people breed intelligence out of existence. The world doesn't end with a bang but a loud farting noise.
Babar the Elephant King
Draykir you silly little man, have you even followed the success rate of missile defense? it doesn't work. They needed to cheat the system in order to get positive results (and they explain this part in any article on the topic) they tagged the missiles with locators and in some tests they didn't even bother using missiles, just hot air balloons. And the gap between a "fix" and a catastrophic problem, as the dead people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will tell you, is a little too long for it to matter, since in the meanwhile millions can still die that way. Also- in the medical context- each layer of complexity we add not only makes the next solution harder and more time consuming to find- it makes it far more expensive and further out of the reach of the financial means of many who would need it. I mean, we all understand you have a hard-on for technology. Hooray for you. But that doesn't make your half-assed defense of it any more coherent or plausible.
Dave
Lord Drayakir - Dude, seriously... It's not supposed to be serious, it's supposed to be freaking FUNNY!!! And it was, btw... I laughed a lot, as I always do...
Lord Drayakir
This last one is f*****g stupid.
America has the Frankenstein complex, a term created by Asimov to explain humanity's fear of robots, but in general, it extends to all scientific progress.
Nanobots, or evolution, or unrestrained scientific research is a good thing, you asswipes. Just because it has the potential to create something horrible, chances are, it will also be able to undo it. DUH. Just like we have nuclear bombs now, well, now we have anti-missile defense.
Honestly, grow the f**k up. People that are afraid of this are probably afraid of fire, and think we should go live in caves.
Don
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Don
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Whiteraven
In the list of pandemics, the author forgot the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, which killed lots of healthy 20- and 30-year-olds rather than the usual children and old people.
THE Guy
Sorry, Obby. You're wrong. We do that with satellites and space-shuttles all the time by "sling shotting" them around planets and/or moons. In fact, that was one of the major problems encountered by the Apollo 13 craft was the possibility of coming in too shallow and skipping off into space. It's like skipping a stone on water. Size doesn't matter. It's based more on speed and friction and very little on gravity at that point.
Dibbs
Astro, you're a dumbass. Look up the physics of planetary-scale gravity. Anyway, everyone knows *rolls eyes* that asteroids are styrofoam.
Astro
@ Obby
When the asteroid nicks our atmosphere it already was pulled towards earth. But not close enough for an impact. The path of the asteroid will be altered.
Get some knowlege of astronomy before commenting.
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5. Already happened. Didn't actually kill the dinosaurs but turned them into birds. I'm not sure how but it did.
4. Starting to happen? Surveys show the 'computer literate' among us have a distinct advantage. Tila Tequila turned minor MySpace celebrity into actual dollars and a pseudo-career. Make friends with the machines now.
3. Already happened, several times. I'm not too worried about it, a resistant few always survive and evolve. Gotta love nature!
2. Business as usual, happening on a daily basis. Don't be afraid of the sunrise, people.
1. Did you even see "An Inconvenient Truth"?? We've already designed/built ourselves into an incredibly deep hole. But I'm an engineer, I believe we can design/build ourselves out of it. If we bother.