War Room Lounge V35: Doomsday. Everything is fine until it isn't.

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

You asked for it. This band live. Fuckin' brutal. War Cleveland.

Schweet.

Idk how a nineteenth (?) century word is in my smartphone predictive text.

My brain is *just* active this morning.

 

[JDragon]

Probably sleeping like reasonable people.

Why would anyone sleep at 11am?

 

[HockeyBjj]

So did someone try to E-suicide in the final posts of the last lounge, but the rope snapped leaving him alive and very confused as to why he's still around and what his true purpose here is?

 

[Prokofievian]

Why would anyone sleep at 11am?

Because they're on welfare like @Devout Pessimist

 

[Captain Davis]

And not just any Skipper, either.

@Captain Davis is gonna keelhaul me

I just want the goods on Mary Ann

 

[Prokofievian]

So did someone try to E-suicide in the final posts of the last lounge, but the rope snapped leaving him alive and very confused as to why he's still around and what his true purpose here is?

He's going to be the first e-suicide survivor motivational speaker. ''I hit rock bottom man, I posted a picture of some vintage titties and bush, expecting the mods to vaporize me, but the good lord jesus christ gave me another chance.''

 

[Captain Davis]

@Captain Davis

 

[Clippy]

Team Homer Thompson?

 

[Andy Capp]

I typed Cubo tickles balls into Google image search and this was the first result.

Don't tickle me Cubo

Look at the grip he's got on that big hose.



Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[Captain Davis]

Team Homer Thompson?

Never heard of him

 

[Andy Capp]

Apropos the OP,

I think it's more likely a chain reaction of events will be the cause of the next big die off. First, large parts of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan will become too hot for human habitation, many 10s of millions will be driven to other countries, bringing disease with them, and causing food and other resource shortages wherever they go. In other places, drought and other negative consequences of climate change will similarly cause massive displacement. With so many crowded together, a pandemic will be practically inevitable. Over-population problem solved, survival problem still extant. In the ensuing chaos, there will be a failure to maintain nuclear weapons sites, causing them to eventually go off. BOOM end of story.

Sigh.

Fortunately, I'm not dead yet.

Spoiler

And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth!

 

[Andy Capp]

Speaks for itself, I think,

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Asteroid or natural disaster as we can't come together to resolve those

 

[JDragon]

The world has been awfully close to nuclear annihilation several times, and only been saved due to the actions of few.

Examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

 

[Andy Capp]

Asteroid or natural disaster as we can't come together to resolve those

That's what scares me the most. If a big enough rock comes at us from off the plane of the solar system (happens all the time by the way) we probably wouldn't detect it until much too late. That's why I wish we were devoting a lot more resources to developing permanent colonies on other solar system bodies.

 

[Prokofievian]

That's what scares me the most. If a big enough rock comes at us from off the plane of the solar system (happens all the time by the way) we probably wouldn't detect it until much too late. That's why I wish we were devoting a lot more resources to developing permanent colonies on other solar system bodies.

That reminds me, I still have the book Dinosaurs and Dark Matter on my book shelf. I heard about it from an interview on CBC radio. You know how it be: long road trip, quirks and quarks. Fuck all Conservatives who want to defund the CBC.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

That's what scares me the most. If a big enough rock comes at us from off the plane of the solar system (happens all the time by the way) we probably wouldn't detect it until much too late. That's why I wish we were devoting a lot more resources to developing permanent colonies on other solar system bodies.

Yeah humans need to spread the eggs around to increase our survival as a species but the risk of impact is going to be an issue regardless of what planet we are on; ironically its way more of an issue on mars

 

[Rational Poster]

 

[Andy Capp]

Yeah humans need to spread the eggs around to increase our survival as a species but the risk of impact is going to be an issue regardless of what planet we are on; ironically its way more of an issue on mars

You had it right with the first part. Right now we have all our eggs in one basket, literally. And we know that a disastrous encounter with such an object is practically inevitable. It's only a question of when. It makes no sense not to vigorously pursue ways to mitigate the resulting damage.

And I didn't specify Mars, although it may be one of the better options. Space-borne colonies could be just as viable if we develop practical asteroid mining such as the Chinese appear to be working on. With the discovery of large amounts of water on the Moon, it's clearly on the table as well. We have options, we're just exploring them at a snails pace, relatively. I wish there were more of a sense of urgency.

 

[Andy Capp]

That reminds me, I still have the book Dinosaurs and Dark Matter on my book shelf. I heard about it from an interview on CBC radio. You know how it be: long road trip, quirks and quarks. Fuck all Conservatives who want to defund the CBC.

Indeed, fuck em all with a red hot poker.

We've got cable and Amazon Prime and there's Netfix and Youtube and streaming stations all around the world, and I still listen to CBC Radio as much as any other source of media.