Countdown to DOOMSDAY...
Are You Kidding Me? This is a TV show that TJ and I watched last night. Honest to God, it was called "Countdown to Doomsday" and it was hosted by Matt Lauer (we decided he was over...so glib and all). Anyway, the show was about what would happen to end human civilazation and how much longer we had until that day comes.
Let me give you a few examples of what they have decided -
Global warming - we are all going to be flooded into Kansas and kill one another because the population will be much higher than the land space availalbe.
Meteor Impact - "it isn't a matter of if, but when Earth will be struck again." AND "only about a team that is like two shifts at McDonalds are working on finding large astroids and meteors that are flying toward the Earth." AND "we haven't found all of the threats out there - we don't know when they will hit, because we don't know where they are."
Pandemic - Watch out BIRD FLU...the good news is that this virus seems to be similar to another virus that killed thousands in the early 1900s and therefore, scientist may be able to find out how to make sure that bird flu doesn't mutate into a human transferrable flu. However, they think you can have this virus and carry it (thus speading it) for up to 2 weeks before you know you are sick.)
Giant Solar Flare - This could knock out all of our satelites and end cell service and electricity. It could "leave humanity without communications or power — triggering a new dark age of primitive barbarism."
Gamma Ray Burst - Even if this would happen 2 light years away, it would shower the Earth with rays millions of times hotter than the sun and cook us all. Sunblock is not going to help any of us!
Otherwise, mass extinction, supervolcanoes, alien invasions and (are you ready...) MACHINE REBELLION are amoung the items we should all be scared to death about.
PLEASE - why do a show like this? Are we really living in a time when everyone needs to be locked in their basement without computers or light and...I mean please!
Don't freak out everyone...sometimes sh*t just happens.
posted by Linz @ 9:16 AM
3 Comments:
Umm...just a couple corrections:
One, a solar flare isn't going to knock the earth out of orbit. It would simply overload capacitors which would take down power. If the solar flare is large enough it could cause a chain reaction shutting down power accross the entire US and Canada and could take a year or more to completely repair.
Two, a gamma ray burst a few hundred thousand light years away would cook the earth. A GRB 2 light years away would incinerate it. Also, a GRB is caused by the collision of 2 supermassive stars and since the nearest star, other than the sun, is Alpha Centauri which is 4.3 light years away doesn't have anything to collide with (and isn't supermassive) I think we're ok.
Three, what is "mass distinction"?
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Thank you Honey for catching my "distinction" mistake. Remember, your wife is only mildly retarded! And you are right about the solar rays...it will only knock out our satelites. My bad. BUT, the gamma ray burst stuff I found back on the scifi web site.
Speaking of which, you can visit there at http://www.scifi.com/doomsday/.
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This was one of your best posts ever, because the sheer absurdity of it made me laugh -- I mean, what was the point of this show? Why does TV insist on making us all think we are going to die tomorrow?
I finally have a permanent job and a savings account, damn it, and the earth better stick around long enough for all the hard work to pay off. Plus, why am I swearing off soda if we're all going to be incinerated or die of a pandemic or float away when the ice caps melt?
Seriously, none of this is at all worth thinking about. The show basically seems to have just re-capped all the "blockbuster" movies of the last decade . . . lets see: Armaggedon, The Day After Tomorrow, Core, Independence Day, Dante's Inferno, etc. We are all just obsessed with which disaster is going to kill us. At least the Dinosaurs were surprised when it happened to them, instead of making movies about it.
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