• 15 percent of the people in the world thinks that the world will end in their lifetime
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I don't believe in any sort of mayan mumbo jumbo shit, but there's been enough crisis in the past century for me to believe we may have more and they may not end as well.
The future of humanity sure seems bright... with the ever-expanding Sun that gives light to our days.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;35795837]I wonder what causes this type of mentality. Part of me thinks it's simply human ego, wherein we think "This time, right here, is so important because it could be the last of humanity." Alternatively, this could simply be group-think led on by conspiracy nuts. Or it could be a combination.[/QUOTE] Or maybe it's taking the time to actually look at how we live. We pollute our planet with our trash and fumes from coal, oil, gasoline, diesel, etc. We are a growing species yet current food production methods can not keep up with the demand that will eventually grip us, meaning we need a whole shift back to revolutionizing agriculture. We need to find forms of energy that are safe, not nuclear energy because it creates waste products that last for thousands of years. This 2012 bullshit irritates me to no end because it's a god damn distraction to the real issues that will plague us if we do nothing about it.
[QUOTE=Mr.T;35795913]Nuclear war is something that is foreseeable in my lifetime as natural resources are depleting rapidly.[/QUOTE] Except in a resource war you want to capture land, not nuke it to shit to the point no one can have it's resources.
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;35796937]Or maybe it's taking the time to actually look at how we live. We pollute our planet with our trash and fumes from coal, oil, gasoline, diesel, etc. We are a growing species yet current food production methods can not keep up with the demand that will eventually grip us, meaning we need a whole shift back to revolutionizing agriculture. We need to find forms of energy that are safe, not nuclear energy because it creates waste products that last for thousands of years. This 2012 bullshit irritates me to no end because it's a god damn distraction to the real issues that will plague us if we do nothing about it.[/QUOTE] Nuclear energy is sustainable if done right!
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;35796937]Or maybe it's taking the time to actually look at how we live. We pollute our planet with our trash and fumes from coal, oil, gasoline, diesel, etc. We are a growing species yet current food production methods can not keep up with the demand that will eventually grip us, meaning we need a whole shift back to revolutionizing agriculture. We need to find forms of energy that are safe, not nuclear energy because it creates waste products that last for thousands of years. This 2012 bullshit irritates me to no end because it's a god damn distraction to the real issues that will plague us if we do nothing about it.[/QUOTE] Isn't nuclear waste reused now? I think I read something about it.
It's all good, just natural selection running its course.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPC47qMJVg[/media] i'm pretty optimistic, i think we'll be able to get through what's happening now and come out even better.
[quote]15 percent of the people in the world thinks that the world will end in their lifetime[/quote] The title...How...? Did they survery [i]everyone[/i] in the world? 16,262 people is not the whole population.
If the word economy does collapse and cause a nuclear war i'll just go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of it to blow over
The world will never actually end.... it'll always be there in one form or another.
[QUOTE=Scotchair;35797691]The world will never actually end.... it'll always be there in one form or another.[/QUOTE] The universe yes, Probably. But earth won't be around forever. won't be anything but a wasteland by the time it happens though.
in other words, 15% of people are morons?
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;35795837]I wonder what causes this type of mentality. Part of me thinks it's simply human ego, wherein we think "This time, right here, is so important because it could be the last of humanity." Alternatively, this could simply be group-think led on by conspiracy nuts. Or it could be a combination.[/QUOTE] It's the Fight Club complex. The middle-children of history can't accept the fact, so they make shit up in their own heads to think that they're living in an historically important time. [editline]2nd May 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Scotchair;35797691]The world will never actually end.... it'll always be there in one form or another.[/QUOTE] Heat Death. The universe as we know it won't be around forever unless the second law of thermodynamics is wrong (and there's no reason to think it is). The 'universe' will still be around, but there will be no stars and no worlds left at some sufficiently distant point in the future. Of course, on a timeline that long, the likelihood of some other catastrophic end increases exponentially. But basically, the universe is doomed even in the best-case scenario.
Let's say the world ends somehow. I hope it isn't prolonged into a lengthy ordeal. World War 2 had it's atrocities to humankind such as rape and genocide, I'd hate to see that today. If anything I'd rather the earth blow up than dirty political wars or catastrophic economical collapse. Stalker seems fun as a game, but when it's your life on the line...
[QUOTE=Jocke;35795915]Thank God I'm not stupid[/QUOTE] Did you thank god for your fingers so you could type stupid shit on Facepunch?
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;35798009]Let's say the world ends somehow. I hope it isn't prolonged into a lengthy ordeal. World War 2 had it's atrocities to humankind such as rape and genocide, I'd hate to see that today. If anything I'd rather the earth blow up than dirty political wars or catastrophic economical collapse. Stalker seems fun as a game, but when it's your life on the line...[/QUOTE] Nothing short of an absolutely catastrophic event is going to drive humanity to extinction in less than some number of centuries. Provided that catastrophic event does not happen, a dying human species will continue to exist (ala the Panda), struggling against an inevitable fate as our population decreases to the point at which it can never recover from the founder/bottleneck effects. It would take a very long time for the "world" (humanity) to end, provided you remove the factor of some sufficiently large cosmic object ending us. (Larger than 99942-Apophis, to boot. Apophis would just fuck up our coasts like nobody's business, but wouldn't have the mass to destroy the world instantaneously.)
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;35795837]I wonder what causes this type of mentality.[/QUOTE] Look at the current political landscape in the world, realize it's a bomb with a lit fuse, and there ya go. That's why I think that way anyway. I see nukes flying within 70 years if we keep going the way we are now. [editline]2nd May 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Lankist;35798043]Nothing short of an absolutely catastrophic event is going to drive humanity to extinction in less than some number of centuries.[/QUOTE] All-out atomic war could do it. We have enough bombs to render Earth positively hostile for the existence of humans. Those who don't die to the blasts succumb to the radiation, their neighbors going feral, mutated wildlife no longer kept out of the cities, general decay and a lack of ability to survive without modern conveniences.
[QUOTE=Jocke;35795915]Thank God I'm not stupid[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_amJ0YZrM[/media]
[QUOTE=TestECull;35798080]All-out atomic war could do it. We have enough bombs to render Earth positively hostile for the existence of humans. Those who don't die to the blasts succumb to the radiation, their neighbors going feral, mutated wildlife no longer kept out of the cities, general decay and a lack of ability to survive without modern conveniences.[/QUOTE] Nuclear war wouldn't obliterate the species instantaneously, and we would continue to reproduce and exist for centuries after before our species hits the point of no return. Also, "mutated wildlife?" Buddy, I think you're putting too much faith in Fallout's vision of a nuclear holocaust. We survived for tens of thousands of years without the benefits of a society. We can do it again. If we were that vulnerable in our absolutely natural state, we wouldn't be here. We are an incredibly adaptable species. We can persist for a lot longer than you realize in a hostile environment.
[QUOTE=Da Big Man;35795840]December 2012 won't be hectic because the world's ending, but from nutjobs that [i]believe[/i] it will and start causing shit.[/QUOTE] My neighborhood has actually brought together a neighborhood watch to prevent anything from going down. I'm sitting on my porch with my rifle and waiting the night out. Five bucks says people will use this whole idiotic thing to loot and steal.
This worries me, because a good deal of them probably believe in the 2012 thing. Raiding and looting DOES happen in people- let's say around half. With those figures, that means that there's a possible 23369393 people that will loot in America alone.
When people were answering this were they thinking of the 'end of the world' as "Things getting pretty shit and desperate and loads of people dieing and stuff" or "All life getting wiped out and the planet itself being fucked beyond recognition" ?
[QUOTE=Levithan;35797007]Nuclear energy is sustainable if done right![/QUOTE] Yes, but it's not safe, and though we've been using it for power since it's invention, we're now spotting errors in cold war era nuclear reactors. We need to tear down existing plants and rebuild them basically. [QUOTE=Electrocuter;35797036]Isn't nuclear waste reused now? I think I read something about it.[/QUOTE] They can reuse the waste but it's still radioactive. [quote=Wikipedia]Radioactive wastes are wastes that contain radioactive material. Radioactive wastes are usually by-products of nuclear power generation and other applications of nuclear fission or nuclear technology, such as research and medicine. Radioactive waste is hazardous to most forms of life and the environment, and is regulated by government agencies in order to protect human health and the environment. Radioactivity diminishes over time, so waste is typically isolated and stored for a period of time until it no longer poses a hazard. The period of time waste must be stored depends on the type of waste. Low-level waste with low levels of radioactivity per mass or volume (such as some common medical or industrial radioactive wastes) may need to be stored for only hours, days, or months, while high-level wastes (such as spent nuclear fuel or by-products of nuclear reprocessing) must be stored for thousands of years. Current major approaches to managing radioactive waste have been segregation and storage for short-lived wastes, near-surface disposal for low and some intermediate level wastes, and deep burial or transmutation for the long-lived, high-level wastes. A summary of the amounts of radioactive wastes and management approaches for most developed countries are presented and reviewed periodically as part of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management.[/quote]
Yucca Mountain.
less than 17,000 people represent nearly 7 billion people. Sounds about right.
[QUOTE=Lankist;35799260]Yucca Mountain.[/QUOTE] Got canceled. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository[/url] [quote]The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository was to be a deep geological repository storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel and other high level radioactive waste, until the project was canceled in 2009. It was to be located on federal land adjacent to the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada, about 80 mi (130 km) northwest of the Las Vegas Valley. The proposed repository was within Yucca Mountain, a ridge line in the south-central part of Nevada near its border with California.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Remscar;35799279]less than 17,000 people represent nearly 7 billion people. Sounds about right.[/QUOTE] because he can get that many people to take that test, sounds about right it can still be 90% accurate you know
[QUOTE=Lankist;35798337]We survived for tens of thousands of years without the benefits of a society. We can do it again. If we were that vulnerable in our absolutely natural state, we wouldn't be here. We are an incredibly adaptable species. We can persist for a lot longer than you realize in a hostile environment.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't want to believe that there would be people willing to do it again... we know the hardship and brutality in our history and current world today to just say no, fuck that. The only reason why it works is because so-called nature takes a perfectly normal intelligent being who goes through that anguish and wipes it's brain into the form of another mushy baby brain and it continues without any fucktards knowing the difference. [QUOTE=Lankist;35798337]Nuclear war wouldn't obliterate the species instantaneously, and we would continue to reproduce and exist for centuries after before our species hits the point of no return.[/QUOTE] I mean, thats the most stupid part of it all right? 'We would continue to reproduce and exist after a nuclear war' It doesn't matter what kind of real depravity or pain anyone happens to be in, it won't stop some of these people from giving birth. It could be at the worst possible time in our history like the plague and people will continue creating new victims.
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;35799284]Got canceled. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository[/url][/QUOTE] by dumb hippies who wanted to maintain the "Nuclear waste is dangerous" argument.
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