End of the World Scenarios

Even if you manage to hit the other countries' silos before they can launch their stuff, you're dead anyway, because of the fallout. As I mentioned, especially if cobalt bombs are used.

Production of cobalt bombs isn't that unlikely. The Bush administration has revealed that scientists are working on some kind of gamma bomb (much like the neutron bomb but deadlier and with absolutely no material damage). I saw that on CNN a while back. Maybe I'll post a link if I find it.

And GRBs can also happen when two neutron stars collide. It happens every single day in the Universe, and it's arguably one of the most powerful and energetic events in the Universe. The point is, if it happens anywhere near us, we don't even have to bother hiding or duck and cover. The atmosphere won't protect us much, either.
 
Nuclear bombs and Fallout wouldn't kill 100% of the world population. It would probably kill billions, but whose going to be targeting India, Africa or South America? I also reckon some places would just be ignored, like Texas or Australia. The wind won't be blowing in every direction from a nuclear blast, humanity won't nuke itself into non-existance. It could probably fuck itself up pretty well though. Even if you targetted the ice-caps there'd still be billions of people waving flags and wearing ribbons or something.

The doomsday clock is only at 7 minutes to midnight. Not much to worry about yet.

GRBs - I don't think they can happen near us? I don't think there's 2 nearby neutron stars and even if there was there'd probably be a big fuss about it and mabye a boosted intrest in the space program.

You could probably survive GRBs if you just expanded. Mabye make a sphere around Earth made up of elevators and globes to live in or something silly.
 
Major wars have, on occassion, crept up by surprise. The fact that the ability to launch a nuclear strike is spreading raises the risks of nuclear confrontation.

I think Sagan said that 100 nukes was enough for global warming. I remember reading WarDay and watching Treads and thinking how a few nuclear detonations could cause tremendous forceable damage.

While this wouldn't not render life extinct (unless we were able to destroy the world similar to the Alpha-Omega bomb depicted in Beneath the Planet of the Apes), I wonder how much it would take to bring us back to the dark ages or worse.
 
Here is another.

It is far into the future. And the United States, after decades of peace, prosperity, cultural expansion, technological advancements, and a huge population boom, decides to try and travel between subspace, to other universes. In the quest for this subspace, or wormhole-like, traveling technology, it comes into contact with intelligent extraterrestial beings. They already know how to travel in subspace, but have never used it. They offer it to us a peace agreement, but warn us that it could have deadly side-effects. The United States, ignorant and blinded by it's ambitions, disregards the warning, and sets up a subspace station on Earth, and selects various people's around the globe to make the first contact with other beings from another universe. The ship prepares for travel, and the subspace beacon is turned on. At first, everything seems normal, then suddenly, and violently, a hole tears open the sky, another quickly rips open the ground, and holes begin to rip open the universe and soon, the entire galaxy is torn apart, then the universe, and soon, the metaverse.

The violent destruction continues forever, tearing apart universes nonstop, until the last one is destroyed, and there, lies a great black hole, constantly growing, into nothingness.

Game over.

That would be something wouldn't it?
 
Paladin Solo said:
The violent destruction continues forever, tearing apart universes nonstop, until the last one is destroyed, and there, lies a great black hole, constantly growing, into nothingness.
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Black holes aren't actually holes. In fact they're the opposite, so it wouldn't grow into nothingness.
Plus, if it had already swallowed up everything, it wouldn't continue to grow. It would stop.
 
Ok then, a great big tear...how about that?

If not, then absolutely nothing, what difference does it make what's there? Everyone's dead! No one is going to study it, or wonder what it was, you know?
 
megatron said:
Nuclear bombs and Fallout wouldn't kill 100% of the world population. It would probably kill billions, but whose going to be targeting India, Africa or South America? I also reckon some places would just be ignored, like Texas or Australia.
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Australia has an important american missile base and also has the dishes that control a large part of americas space program... not that that will matter when 99.9% of the population is dead

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is there a reason my quotes dont work?
 
do you have BBcode turned on?

They probably still wouldn't carpet-bomb all of Australia with nukes just for one missile base mebbe.

Paladin Solo: Yeah, the US is going to be the superpower in the far-future. I also like how the President would wake up one morning and decide to use sub-space travel when the space program is sort of being killed off at the moment. And Aliems.

WHEAT, I WAS BEING SARLASTIC! HO HO HO!
 
Hmmm, end of the world? Check this out, we are living in a lose lose situation. IF we don't kill eachother, we will eventually run out of resources like food and water. Also, what about the earth? This ozone stuff, it is real, and it is a real threat, hell, if the world ends, it will be in war, or the earth will be destroyed by the human race. It's too bad we wouldn't live Fallout style, that would be the shit! Hey bitch, gimme your caps before I bust a cap in your ass with my D-eagle. lol, that'd be cool. "Aaaaaaah! Run, it's the master!" lol, that'd be the shit.
 
yes. that would be "the shit" but last time i checked, (correct me if im wrong) the ozone layer dissapearing might just be a natural occurence, likes the north and south poles changing places.[/b]
 
Are you questioning me? Would you like to be eaten alive by pyscho ass ghoul dweller here? I can have it arranged! :P As I said, the ozone is eaten away by pollution, like it is scientifically proven. Soooo, that is the end of that. DAMMIT! Still only 9 posts! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I'll never be the best! *Breaks down crying*
 
By the way, ghoul "dwella", there are typos on your website. It's "Careful" not "Carefull" and "The Wasteland", not "Wastelands". Sounds a hell of a lot better.

megatron, what's your obsession with nuclear carpet-bombing ( :o )? ICBMs are the shit. You've played too much Command and conquer, methinks. Yes, in about 50 years, if we continue polluting as we do now (Dubya?), our planet might just look a bit like Mercury. This means that without our precious ozone, we're fucked.
 
There were no ICBMs in Command and Conquer. (though there are VERY few references).
 
I just thought nuclear carpet bombing would be the only way for total destruction over an entire area. Similair to regular carpet bombing but for a country instead of an acre or so of land or whatever. If you're going to kill everything you might as well do it right.

We won't run out of resources. Soylent Green and all that shizzle. We'll probably reach space before this planet becomes a barren rock. Or less. But whenever you use something it creates waste, which can be used later. You can drink your urine for instance.

The ozone peeling away is a natural occurence. You think having a few cars will make any difference? No. And scientists have proven bees can't fly, yet I see these miracles of magic everyday. Thouh they seem to struggle with windows.
 
Meg...for one, it is very possible for the U.S. to be a superpower in a few hundred years.

For two, who honestly took what I said about subspace seriously?

For three...in this huge fucking universe, it would not only be arrogant, stupid, and closeminded to think there isn't some other form of intelligent life out there, but also unrealistic.

For four...I should just shut up meybe?
 
how do you know it'd be intelligent though? It might be so alien that they just sit watching flickering lights and pressing buttons all day.

And the us won't be the main superpower by end of the century, mabye not even the end of the decade. It would be arrogant, stupid and closeminded to think otherwise, so I must be right.
 
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