At 1/10/09 09:15 PM, RussianGiant wrote:
Top 5 threats.
#1. Global warming
Even though you might not notice it global warming is starting to affect the public b burning our body's skin. even though there are major coplaints from the public the governments don't do a shit to stop it but continue to focus on other stuff like their military. Seriously if the governments leaders want to conquer the world the in the end they probably will only get a planet comparable to Venus.
If west Antarctica ice melted then that's 20ft rise of sea level if the Greenland ice melts away thats 20ft more of sea level so that's 40ft of extra sea level. major cities will get flooded from that like London, Miami, St.Petersburg. Do you really think the government would try building a 25metre wall around Florida? Even lowland countries like Belgium will be almost completely covered in water!
We need to freakin stop humanity from destroying itself. We need to stop going on the path of business this time.
This is a simple question do you want to live or die?
The human race has survived before with large climate shifts. Do you not think that the Earth has not gone thru this same heating and cooling trend before? If it reaches to the point where there is massive flooding, it's still not going to wipe out the human race. We will adapt.
#2. plague
this is partly a way man can destroy itself and partly nature.
the newest avian flu diseases can turn into something like the black death or even deadlier! so humans can perish under it all. simple as that.
also humans have experimented for many years with biological weapons for example bofore in the Soviet Union scientists took common small pox that kills about 30% who don't use medicine and turn that 30% into 100% chance of death. even more scary is that we have the internet... and that can help ordinary citizens make/duplicate diseases...
Also imagine some idiot/fool/maniac/some over religious guy that becomes a biologist thinks its his mission to kill everyone (including himself) by creating a extremely deadly disease that is as easy to catch as the common cold (D:) ?
Ok first, you can't design a new disease in your household using internet recipes. Second, I seriously doubt there has ever been a virus with 100% fatality rate, and I seriously doubt there ever will be. Will there be diseases out there with extremely high fatality rates? Probably but nothing that will drive us to extinction. You fail again.
#3. nuclear wars...
if any superpower starts a nuclear war then we are all dead for almost certain. Just 20 nukes can cause enough debree to block out the sun. The USA is scared of terrorists making 1 nuke and using it when they should be more aware of the 24,000 nukes Russia has and the 13,000 China has (im not completely sure how many but i know its in 10,000 area). the thing is a nuke war can be triggered accidentally by, lets say for example a commercial satellite being launched with a rocket. one of the superpowers might think this is a nuclear attack and guess what they'll do, they'll make a nuclear attacks on that country.
we have enough nuclear bombs to kill about 8 billion people but we only have about 6 billion people...
A nuclear war isn't going to reach every square inch of the world. There are also many nuclear shelters dug by various countries around the world. So while it may be catastrophic to the human population, in the worst case scenario, extinction no.
#4. comets...
every day comets will fly around our solar system but few are big enough to hit planet Earth and make a crater. but before scientists have predicted that in April friday the 13th 2026 a huge meteor will come closer to Earth than our satellites surrounding it.
Which has like a 1 in 45,000 chance of actually colliding.
then the same day in 2036 the meteor will return this time defiantly hitting Earth.
Ok where do you get this information from?
But we have a plan to stop this governments are planning to construct a satellite with a gravitational pull that will just edge the meteor away from us so it wont enter Earth.
Again, where is this information from? I've never heard of us creating a satilite with the gravitational pull to adjust a comet's path.
If this meteor lands then it will be like the dinosaur age where the sun was blocked out and we desperately search for food.
You do understand that in this scenario, mammals have the advantage here, as can be seen with when the dinosaurs became extinct.
you know those movies where people see a meteor falling for a while well that doesnt happen, in fact if 1 meteor of that size and that speed entered Earth the flames wouldnt turn red,white,orange,purple,green or any kind of known color. it would be so hot that anything within about a 1000 sq mile radius would burn from the intensity of light and heat!
Source?
if we simply blow it up then billions of smaller meteorites will fall down on Earth probably causing more damage than just 1 big meteor.
The theory behind this, is when smaller bodies enter the Earth's atmosphere, they tend to burn up. So if we have a choice between a 2 mile wide meteor, or 2,000 1 meter wide meteors entering the atmosphere, I'll go with the 2000 as chances are a vast majority will never impact.
#5. supervolcanoes...
if you didnt know then there are over 40 volcanoes that if erupted then they would make possible extinction of mankind. the last time a supervolcano erupted there were barely any humans left on earth. this was so close to extinction that scientists believe that only 33 reproducing females survived the whole thing! if a supervolcano erupted on Earth then its definate possibility of extinction on man (and female).
Source. I have a hard time believing the accuracy of these numbers. And even if they are accurate, look at the human population levels, how spread out they are now, and the technology levels compared to what you say happened last time.
slightly more than half of these possibilities are of mankind killing itself but we can control the controllable if we can stop a giant comet then we can stop ourselves!
p.s damn thats a giant post
