I don't know, how many people have to starve before it reaches a cataclysm?
― viborg, Saturday, 26 November 2016 06:07 (seven years ago) link
Wow, good job reading a bunch of nonexistent sentiment into my question!
Speaking for myself, I'm defining a "cataclysm" for the purposes of this thread as 2-3% global population loss.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 06:10 (seven years ago) link
So, roughly 200 million deaths at current global population of roughly 7 billion. Sounds cataclysmic enough to me to qualify.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 26 November 2016 06:22 (seven years ago) link
http://www.livescience.com/14251-200-million-rapture-12.html
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 06:28 (seven years ago) link
Be funny if we're all dead before this poll closes
― Never changed username before (cardamon)
if a punchline lands and nobody is there to hear it, is it still funny?
watched "pale cocoon" last night. touched on a lot of thoughts i've been having lately, particularly wrt this thread.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 November 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
np: frank zappa, _does humor belong in a post-apocalyptic hellscape?_
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 November 2016 12:41 (seven years ago) link
just the other day i was wondering which science fiction dystopia seems most plausible from the perspective of 2016 and--if you allow for some imaginative license--it almost seems like it might be The Time Machine.
― ryan, Saturday, 26 November 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
(not just the extreme inequality or biopolitical schisms, or even the idea that there will be habitable and uninhabitable zones but because it portrays human civilization as just...dwindling away into time and a decaying universe.)
― ryan, Saturday, 26 November 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
& Orlando Jones rocking a Caesar cut, boggling at our sad descendants who don't take advantage of the vast institutional knowledge that he contains!
http://i.imgur.com/R3T8bih.jpg
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/a-human-extinction-isnt-that-unlikely/480444/
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Global Challenge Foundation roughly answers the poll question for ILX:
Across 100 years, that figure would entail a 9.5 percent chance of human extinction.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
i don't think it'll be so bad for humans who are born after the cataclysm bc this will be the only life they know. it'll be hardest for those of us who remember what it was like now and how great it was.
― Mordy, Friday, November 25, 2016 9:44 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
we are legend
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
still feeling good about this
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 20 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
clutch mutch?
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Friday, 20 January 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link
16 people leading the revolution
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 20 January 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1eWtMFd.jpg
― Karl Malone, Friday, 20 January 2017 01:39 (seven years ago) link
I'm about to turn 42, and I feel like I am living through one right now.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 January 2017 01:42 (seven years ago) link
You are confusing the scaldingly high potential for a cataclysmic event with the actual event, which is scheduled for later this year.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 20 January 2017 04:07 (seven years ago) link
51 and I feel as if everything has gone mad.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 January 2017 08:59 (seven years ago) link
You're getting worked up over nothing. Everything is going to be fine. So just relax, okay? You're really overreacting.
http://www.theonion.com/multiblogpost/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-regio-11534
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 January 2017 09:30 (seven years ago) link
silicon valley hedge fund types certainly think they will
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
“I think people who are particularly attuned to the levers by which society actually works understand that we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now.”
yeah man yr the only one who can tell
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
i read that piece and my real feeling about it was that there's a certain stripe of rich person that's constantly paranoid that something might bring an end to the lavish, crass lifestyles which they need yet scarcely deserve, the latter fact being something they're probably aware of.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link
When Marvin Liao, a former Yahoo executive who is now a partner at 500 Startups, a venture-capital firm, considered his preparations, he decided that his caches of water and food were not enough. “What if someone comes and takes this?” he asked me. To protect his wife and daughter, he said, “I don’t have guns, but I have a lot of other weaponry. I took classes in archery.”...Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”
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Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”
lol nerds (bolded part submitted for use on species tombstone obv)
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
love the implicit acknowledgement that there will be slaves -- just def not him
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
typical of these libertarian shitheads that their first and only thought in response to potential civil unrest is 'omg i'd better build a secret bunker' rather than 'omg how can i use my boundless wealth and influence to prevent this?'
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link
lord of the flies is not a fucking instruction manual you dolts
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
http://s8.postimg.org/4qjmvxc5x/tumblr_ned75nk_LFX1s6efcxo2_500.gif
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
just for the record, this is the chinless manchild who believes he has the right stuff to go full immortan joe in the nightmarish hellscape world of the future:
http://www.deathmetal.org/wp-content/uploads/Steve-spez-Huffman.jpg
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
hmm, it appears deathmetal.org doesn't like hotlinking - try this:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/11/29/17/3ADB96D400000578-3982922-image-a-23_1480439368880.jpg
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
if you want a vision of the future, imagine a flip-flop stamping on a human face - forever.
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
You can't fool me, that's Liam McPoyle.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Silicon Valley execs who think their leadership skills will transfer seamlessly to the post-apocalyptic economy of tomorrow might just maybe be in for a fun surprise.
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
Immortan Joe was the CFO at Fruit Ninja devs Halfbrick, iirc?
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
otoh psychopathy probably v useful
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah was gonna say, he's got the right eyes at least
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link
Sean Connery may still be alive when ZARDOZ comes true
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link
It just occurred to me that the illusory nightmare world the more extreme factions of the right had been fearing under Obummer is exactly the world that the new GOP administration seems hellbent on ushering in for real. And those same people are probably cheering now. Probably because they'll finally get to use those shelters they spent their life savings on.
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:41 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i like the implication that there will be slaves and he'll be in charge off them
― nomar, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
i talk to a few chinese people at work and theyve told me its obvious that china will go to war in less than 5 years
they said this about 1.5 years ago
the potential for destruction is there, but how much of it china is willing to risk is another matter
makes sense tho
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
The Cascadia Subduction Zone rupturing & the Yellowstone Caldera erupting definitely have a greater than 0% of happening within 37 years. Though those would mostly threaten just the Western US and Canada.
What really scares me is when giant asteroids make close pass-by's and NASA's like "oh we didn't see that one coming!" and the fact that even if we knew one was headed on a direct path towards Earth, we really don't have any way to divert it. They're working on that but currently there is no consensus that exploding a big nuclear missle near it/on it would be strong enough to nudge it enough to miss us.
But most likely, IMO, is that the effects of climate change get so severe there's a serious disruption in the global agricultural and energy sectors which would definitely lead to a panic that collapses the global economy. Though, in all likelihood that would happen at least 50 years from now. So, sorry teenagers!
I might just be a naive optimist, but I highly doubt President Trump is going start wars or cause events that are globally destabilizing. Fucking over poor people, minorities and women within the US, however... unfortunately very likely.
― Frobisher, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
a greater than 0% of happening within 37 years
That 37 year window may apply to you, but as the poll was written, every respondent will have a differently sized window. In my case it is somewhat less than 8 years, which reduces the odds considerably closer to 0%. btw, if the Yellowstone Caldera erupts we can kiss our sweet lives of luxury goodbye.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
if i dont see my pension and lump sum imma be soooo mad but really i dont see anything like this happening
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170418-how-western-civilisation-could-collapse
Eventually, investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy reaches a point of diminishing returns, leading to fiscal weakness and vulnerability to collapse. That is, he says “unless we find a way to pay for the complexity[”]
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
bump
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 March 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
nah
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 13 March 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
https://media3.giphy.com/media/114YFLTN8BIQDe/giphy.gif
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 13 March 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
would need to be something much, much worse than this
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Friday, 13 March 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link