When you think of the Apocalypse...

[Tannhauser]

I thought the ending with the hippy mutant fighting the military mutant was pretty funny.

After the encounter with Cyclops, the book peters out of interesting ideas. Which makes quite a bit of sense once you realize how the book was put together. "The Postman" and "Cyclops" were both originally published as short stories, which Brin connected and expanded into the full book. The original short stories mark the best points in the novel, with the connecting pieces and additions being lackluster.

To offset random images of birds and felines, how about something from one post-apocalyptic setting?

 

[LinksBoxers]

Zombies would be rad. I'm ready for zombie infestation.

I've literally planned what to do in the situation of a Zombie outbreak.

With the help of....

 

[LinksBoxers]

 

[Paladin Solo]

Dude, that's so original. Seriously, I think you've just inspired me to take that crap I was thinking about taking now instead of tomorrow morning when it won't be so fresh.

 

[alec]

Oil depletion -> energy crisis -> anarchy, wars for resources, famine, thurst, sickness, diseases, huge death toll -> back to the stone age for the "lucky" few

These events will undoubtedly coincide with natural disasters due to global warming, the rise of the sea level being to worst one. And I don't doubt for one minute that some retards will eventually use nuclear missiles during the wars for resources (oil, water, land), but they will not really change the general outcome: billions of people will die, be it from radiation or strictly natural causes, and there's nothing you or anyone else can do about it. I'm pretty sure, though, that most people will die from stupid stuff like diarrhea or the flu. No big or breathtaking stuff. You know, kinda sorta as T.S. Elliot put it:

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

The big end will of course be the death of our sun, 4 billion years from now. By then, though, the human race and all it ever stood for will be a memory no one remembers.

It's a relative thing, though: somehow we will always be here as a stream of light travelling the universe. Apocalypse or no apocalypse.

 

[victor]

What I said.

 

[SuAside]

To offset random images of birds and felines, how about something from one post-apocalyptic setting?

how does one put a ship of that size through a building like that?

 

[Malky]

How does one put a building that size around a ship like that?

 

[LinksBoxers]

Oh, another great thing that comes to mind.
A "super-flu" epidemic with a 99.9% mortality rate.
*cough The Stand cough*

 

[Malky]

Oh, another great thing that comes to mind.
A "super-flu" epidemic with a 99.9% mortality rate.
*cough The Stand cough*

Zomgzzz Captain Tripps!

Or, as we like to call it now - the avian flu.

 

[Jarno Mikkola]

How does one put a ship of that size through a building like that?

Well, first you build the floors under and around the ship, then you build the ship in it, and the top floors, and to make the picture perfect, you need time, 30 to 100 years, and then take the picture. See. (The Captain Obvious goes to his grave and makes a suicide.)

 

[John Uskglass]

 

[Big T]

Whatever happens, it's gonna be the Murikans' fault.

The Murikans?

Anyway, I always assumed it'd be a Physics experiment. Particle accelerators, Mini Black Holes, perhaps Vacuum Energy. Something like that.

 

[The Vault Dweller]

What about Alien Invasion?

Oh wait thats what Jarno's doing except he hasnt gotten the hang of "inseminate a female" yet.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

 

[ADV]

When females become asexual, thats the end of the world - right there.

 

[Dapper Dan Man]

Gray goo. We are going to make nanomachines and they will reprocess us into paperweights. Just hundreds of billions of paperweights inhabiting Earth. PAPERWEIGHTS DAMN YE!



Though, I am fond of the whole 'we will never die' scenario. Merge with the machine AI, become one with the Singularity and all that.

 

[Lord 342]

Call me old fashioned but I still see the clips from the end of "Dr. Strangelove, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". Usually set to "Maybe" from Fallout 1, because I can't remember the song used in the film.

 

[Jarno Mikkola]

Oh wait thats what Jarno's doing except he hasnt gotten the hang of "inseminate a female" yet.

Cause the Posterity of Earth spell hasn't been chanted as of yet, a treaty that makes all things(including humans) equal, to face the test, a test that will determine the best genes that the earthlings have, a procedure that makes possible to create the single most greatest creature in the universe, that we know of. An twin, a boy and a girl, with a predetermined genes in their reproduction cells, so it can, and will reproduce itself infinitely, without an end, until the world ends, but at that point it's already in every one we have been.

 

[Wooz]

I can't remember the song used in the film.

Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again.

I think I even linked it to a website with a downloadable mp3, somewhere in the FO3 Music suggestions thread.

 

[EyeMaster7]

The holy fist of god is going to punch earth's face sending a wave of wind and fire burning down the cities. He will curse the survivors with a disease which eats the man flesh and makes their hair fall. Hordes of homeless survivors will pray on each other for canned dog food.

I see the future and there is a little boy cooking a rat because he has nothing else to eat. Wait a minute... It's today news.