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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:21
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With all the bomb shelters all over the place left over from the cold war, I'd say the infestation would be difficult to eliminate. A show on dinosaurs I watched some time back said that after 2 years the air had cleared pretty much, but all the dinosaurs were dead by then. That couldn't happen to people as canned food can last alot longer than that. The population might be reduced to a million people or something, but I think we would survive such an event. What about Yellowstone blowing up? Full on nuke war? What would it take?
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shawnmmcc
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A genetically engineered or nanotech disease, or a self-replicating nanotech that gets out of control (in which case it wipes out all multicellular life on earth, humans aren't per se singled out).
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Sir Og
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Lurking in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Jun 2001
time: 07:21
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A signifficant and quick change in the enviorment. A meteor impact could do that maybe a change in Earth's magnetic field.
I don't think that a virus can do it.
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mrmitchell
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But I heard the US has enough of Bio andn Chem weapons to kill everyone on the planet 15 or so times over...
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To be fair we're currently dismantling a lot of them.
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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
time: 23:21
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quote:
Originally posted by Frankychan
But I heard the US has enough of Bio andn Chem weapons to kill everyone on the planet 15 or so times over... |
Which is an utter load of crap.
What these guys do is figure out how many people would be killed by a certain amount of these subtances under perfect conditions (for chemical weapons, bright but not too sunny, clear, little if any wind, low humidity, NO precipitation of course) would kill, then they measure out the total of the stuff we have and make such predictions.
In fact, given the fact weather throughout the world is a bit less cooperative, and of course one has to figure out how to deploy and release the weapons globally, those predictions are utter scare mongering.
I agree that save fopr the hypothetical nano- plague, nothing here mentioned would do it.
Humans have one up over most dinasours- we are omnivorous, like many of the creatures that survived the Asteroid hit, like our ancestor mammals, plsu we have such things as canned food, meaning with good planning enough food stores to keep a significant population alive could be stored to feed people even as plant life worldwide died off.
The Sun going Nova, now that would definitelly do it.
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27-06-2005 12:01
Besides, with Poly so slow, plus the wave of regular posters leaving, someone has to keep the lights on around here. Been to ACOL lately? Like a ghost town...
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