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

[HockeyBjj]

I'm still a little surprised that with the fall of the soviet union, Pakistan and India having nuclear weapons and high amounts of corruption, that there hasn't ever been even just some non fissionable grade uranium that's gotten into the wrong hands and led to a terroristic (not even strictly Islamic) dirty bomb attack somewhere. Rogue general with the keys to do something is also in the realm of possibility and has thankfully never happened.

A yellow cake ied would be devastating. Aside from the area of impact, international fear would be through the roof.

 

[Andy Capp]

I'm still a little surprised that with the fall of the soviet union, Pakistan and India having nuclear weapons and high amounts of corruption, that there hasn't ever been even just some non fissionable grade uranium that's gotten into the wrong hands and led to a terroristic (not even strictly Islamic) dirty bomb attack somewhere. Rogue general with the keys to do something is also in the realm of possibility and has thankfully never happened.

A yellow cake ied would be devastating. Aside from the area of impact, international fear would be through the roof.

I think it must be much more difficult than generally believed to make an effective dirty bomb (without killing yourself) or else we'd have seen one used by now. I'd guess it's just far easier to stick to the low hanging fruit like chemical explosives.

 

[Jack V Savage]

What about just population growth falling below replacement level all over the world and population naturally declining until it hits zero (obviously we'd see it coming but it might be too late)? I think that's the most likely human extinction scenario.

 

[Andy Capp]

What about just population growth falling below replacement level all over the world and population naturally declining until it hits zero (obviously we'd see it coming but it might be too late)? I think that's the most likely human extinction scenario.

I don't think it's at all likely. There is scientific evidence that at one time, all of humanity had been whittled down to approximately 5000 individuals and we overcame that. When the need arises, people will churn out babies until kingdom come, as it were.

 

[Trotsky]

What about just population growth falling below replacement level all over the world and population naturally declining until it hits zero (obviously we'd see it coming but it might be too late)? I think that's the most likely human extinction scenario.

That would be awesome

 

[Jack V Savage]

I don't think it's at all likely. There is scientific evidence that at one time, all of humanity had been whittled down to approximately 5000 individuals and we overcame that. When the need arises, people will churn out babies until kingdom come, as it were.

Times have changed a lot since then.

That would be awesome

A "last one out, please turn off the lights" scenario seems somehow sadder to me than a massive disaster. Imagine a mother telling her kid while they hide from predatory animals in a luxurious but decaying bunker about how humans were on every continent and had great cities and fought terrible wars.

 

[Andy Capp]

Times have changed a lot since then.



A "last one out, please turn off the lights" scenario seems somehow sadder to me than a massive disaster. Imagine a mother telling her kid while they hide from predatory animals in a luxurious but decaying bunker about how humans were on every continent and had great cities and fought terrible wars.

That is reminiscent of the premise of a short story that I wrote. Essentially, people are so few in number, a man resorts to making his own woman but has to keep rebuilding her because of her insatiable desire to see the outside world despite all the carnage.

 

[Gregolian]

luxurious but decaying bunker about how humans were on every continent and had great cities and fought terrible wars.

 

[Andy Capp]

I must watch that one of these days.

 

[JDragon]

Just found this awesome graph

 

[Jack V Savage]

That is reminiscent of the premise of a short story that I wrote. Essentially, people are so few in number, a man resorts to making his own woman but has to keep rebuilding her because of her insatiable desire to see the outside world despite all the carnage.

Sounds cool.

Jonathan Lethem wrote a novel about something somewhat similar. There's alien civilization that is in decline and pretty much deserted (they call them "archbuilders," though the existing ones don't actually know how to build the old arches anymore) that some humans go to to get away from major environmental disaster on Earth. Kind of a Western, but with some really weird shit on top of it (including some weird sexual stuff).

Didn't see it.

 

[Trotsky]

A "last one out, please turn off the lights" scenario seems somehow sadder to me than a massive disaster. Imagine a mother telling her kid while they hide from predatory animals in a luxurious but decaying bunker about how humans were on every continent and had great cities and fought terrible wars.

Tragic, but awesome. Given our species' perpetual disregard and disrespect for our ecological world, even with the most dire of effects for only the most frivolous of convenience, I think it would be fitting. With that said, I tend to agree with Hunter Simpson. It would never happen, especially with the prospect of cloning.

Also,

 

[Gregolian]

I must watch that one of these days.

I need to watch it again. Was the first movie I saw in fucking Ultra High Def 4K on a 4K TV and HOLY SHIT was it crazy.

I wonder if it'd be scary or cool to watch on mushrooms.....

Didn't see it.

You should, bit of a throwback in that almost all of the action sequences were shot using more old school practical effects.

 

[waiguoren]

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.

Out of the nine networks whose 2016 election coverage I watched in full, CBC was the most biased against Trump. It was pretty cringeworthy. In particular, there was a black female on their panel who went off the rails at length like a raving lunatic.

 

[Andy Capp]

Out of the nine networks whose 2016 election coverage I watched in full, CBC was the most biased against Trump. It was pretty cringeworthy. In particular, there was a black female on their panel who went off the rails at length like a raving lunatic.

LOL yeah one can really rely on your opinion, grapes. Thanks for the input.

 

[waiguoren]

LOL yeah one can really rely on your opinion, grapes. Thanks for the input.

Which network's election day coverage was more biased against Trump than CBC?

 

[Prokofievian]

Out of the nine networks whose 2016 election coverage I watched in full, CBC was the most biased against Trump. It was pretty cringeworthy. In particular, there was a black female on their panel who went off the rails at length like a raving lunatic.

CBC radio is a cultural institution. Especially in the west where hockey road trips or trips to see family will see you on the road for hours at a time. The vinyl cafe (RIP Stewart), quirks and quarks, cross country checkup, as it happens. Shit's my jam, son.

 

[Gregolian]

Which network's election day coverage was more biased against Trump than CBC?

TYT

 

[Jack V Savage]

Tragic, but awesome. Given our species' perpetual disregard and disrespect for our ecological world, even with the most dire of effects for only the most frivolous of convenience, I think it would be fitting. With that said, I tend to agree with Hunter Simpson. It would never happen, especially with the prospect of cloning.

Also,

I think all of the scenarios are highly unlikely, but that is more likely than any of them.

Haven't seen that movie.

Cat's Cradle has my favorite doomsday scenario in fiction (ice nine changing the freezing temperature of water).

 

[luckyshot]

I think a climate induced drought will collapse the food chain and lead to greater disease that will accelerate the antibiotic resistance issue.

Is that before or after the Angry Deity thing?