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Original_Intent
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 09/21/2007 : 06:36:06 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
I hope it is a space disease. Life has just gotten too borning by comparison to good fiction. We need a catastrophe to reinvigorate human civilization.
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Let's start with a few volcanos on the West coast going kablooie.... Make MMGW irrelevent. Maybe sink part of the West coast... split at the San ANdreas fault maybe...
Meanwhile, the ash from the volcanos can settle on the poles, causing them to warm up much more quickly, and flood coastal areas.
You want interesting... there you go. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 09/21/2007 : 07:00:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Original_Intent
Originally posted by chaloobi
I hope it is a space disease. Life has just gotten too borning by comparison to good fiction. We need a catastrophe to reinvigorate human civilization.
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Let's start with a few volcanos on the West coast going kablooie.... Make MMGW irrelevent. Maybe sink part of the West coast... split at the San ANdreas fault maybe...
Meanwhile, the ash from the volcanos can settle on the poles, causing them to warm up much more quickly, and flood coastal areas.
You want interesting... there you go.
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Oh hell, why go through all that fuss & bother. When (not 'if' but 'when!') the Yellowstone Super-volcano snaps it's lunch all will be moot including us. That bad boy has something like a 50 mile dia. cauldera and, as this volcano is cyclic, is some tens of thousands years overdue.
Isn't this fun? 
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 09/21/2007 : 07:53:44 [Permalink]
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I'm inclinded to go with Filthy on this. There's good evidence Western US volcanoes have blown and covered all the Great Plains in feet of ash. If something like that happened, most of the US would be screwed but perhaps billions would die from the several years without a summer growing season world wide... The soil out west would be pretty fertile afterwards, though...
The good ones from history - giant meteors, giant volcanoes, local (relatively) supernovas, global glaciation - don't seem to happen anymore. But actually, they DO happen still. It's just that they're so infrequent that historical humanity hasn't had to deal with them. When one comes around, though, lots of people are going to die. People will scratch their head in those times and wonder why such long term events have to happen at that moment to them... Better to live in these boring times in that context, though with climate warming, interesting times of that scale may be upon us afterall. |
-Chaloobi
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