Doomsday
Part 2 of my End of the World posts.
In South Park there is an instruction video for surviving a lava flow. You are instructed to "Duck and Cover", which basically involves adopting the foetal position in the face of molten magma. Not surprisingly, this doesn't work, and very shortly several charred skeletons are gently rolling away.
A super volcano like that awful drama on BBC last year is one possible way civilization as we know it could end. Since it's in Yellowstone park, it would sort-of be America destroying us...they have a lot to do with various doomsday scenarios. Apparently the ash would block out the sun, and thus everything would die. Except those little microbe things that don't actually need light.
There's also the chance of a meteor or asteroid like in that appalling film with Sean Connery. What a pile of sentimental rubbish that was. This one we might actually have a chance of surviving. If, like in Futurama, we fire a huge rocket-load of junkfood and waste paper at it, maybe we'll deflect it. Or possibly not, since life isn't an amusing cartoon. Well, a very amusing one.
Then of course there's the charming possibility of all-out nuclear war, which is honestly very unlikely. While I wouldn't trust George Bush with anything more important that his own stupid American inbred retarded pig-fucking redneck shit-for-brains head, I don't think even he will press the Big Red Button just because it's a pretty colour.
Perhaps aliens will attack us. Again, wildly unlikely. There is certainly life out there, but the chances of them finding us are so small. There are millions upon millions of stars in every galaxy, and countless billions of galaxies. This implies that there must be billions of planets that could sustain life, but by the same token they will be thinly spread. The equation worked out about how many planets will sustain life suggests a comparatively tiny number per galaxy.
And why would they attack us anyway? Unless they had evolved down a similar route to the USA ("They're not American - SHOOT TO KILL!") then they would likely choose to meet with us, trade with us and exchange knowledge. Chances are we'd be the first race they had ever encountered too.
Lastly, maybe they'll be another, very slow, ecological disaster. The planet is certainly heading that way. But as I'll cover tomorrow - where could we go?
In South Park there is an instruction video for surviving a lava flow. You are instructed to "Duck and Cover", which basically involves adopting the foetal position in the face of molten magma. Not surprisingly, this doesn't work, and very shortly several charred skeletons are gently rolling away.
A super volcano like that awful drama on BBC last year is one possible way civilization as we know it could end. Since it's in Yellowstone park, it would sort-of be America destroying us...they have a lot to do with various doomsday scenarios. Apparently the ash would block out the sun, and thus everything would die. Except those little microbe things that don't actually need light.
There's also the chance of a meteor or asteroid like in that appalling film with Sean Connery. What a pile of sentimental rubbish that was. This one we might actually have a chance of surviving. If, like in Futurama, we fire a huge rocket-load of junkfood and waste paper at it, maybe we'll deflect it. Or possibly not, since life isn't an amusing cartoon. Well, a very amusing one.
Then of course there's the charming possibility of all-out nuclear war, which is honestly very unlikely. While I wouldn't trust George Bush with anything more important that his own stupid American inbred retarded pig-fucking redneck shit-for-brains head, I don't think even he will press the Big Red Button just because it's a pretty colour.
Perhaps aliens will attack us. Again, wildly unlikely. There is certainly life out there, but the chances of them finding us are so small. There are millions upon millions of stars in every galaxy, and countless billions of galaxies. This implies that there must be billions of planets that could sustain life, but by the same token they will be thinly spread. The equation worked out about how many planets will sustain life suggests a comparatively tiny number per galaxy.
And why would they attack us anyway? Unless they had evolved down a similar route to the USA ("They're not American - SHOOT TO KILL!") then they would likely choose to meet with us, trade with us and exchange knowledge. Chances are we'd be the first race they had ever encountered too.
Lastly, maybe they'll be another, very slow, ecological disaster. The planet is certainly heading that way. But as I'll cover tomorrow - where could we go?
posted by Mkzrj at 2:56 pm
4 Comments:
The duck and cover technique does sweet FA.
Earthquake: Crushed by falling masonry.
Volcano: Melted by molten rock.
Nuclear War: Vaporised anyway.
Tsunami: Washed away by water.
Yet people still insist on practicing it.
And I agree on your alien idea, as we are looking at beings that would be more intelligent than us, not less.
Maybe the aliens would help us build those crazy space elevators.
Duck and cover might work in the case of nuclear attach - if the missile was on a completely flat trajectory at about 4 feet altitude - it would go right over you.
What makes you think there aren't already aliens on this planet? Mua Ha Ha.
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