Earths Collapse "Imminent"

[Rowan93]

They didn't even actually say the change would be as bad as the extinction of the dinosaurs. They said:

"the end of the cataclysmic falling star, which ended the age of dinosaurs."

Which sounds to me like (although it's unbelievably poorly worded) they're talking about the end of the mass extinction.

You know how after the asteroid hit, the earth got really cold for a while because the dust was blocking out the sun? They're talking about the end of that cataclysm, so they're talking about the rate of change when the dust went away, and things went from dinosaur-killing weather to really nice.

That doesn't sound like such a big deal to me. I mean, okay, millions of people will die in the floods, but they'll be third-worlders. The death toll for real people won't even reach the hundreds of thousands - I won't be in there unless I make some excessively dumb decisions, and the same probably applies to you.

 

[JesterRaiin]

The expected end of the world in 1666 comes to mind, the end of all times of 2000 as well. At least this one isn't based in numerology.

Yeah. Pretty much every second one of those special numbers "happens". 666 atoms of something flies through something else. 42 stars change into super-novas. Follower of some New Age cult reads some ritual for 23rd time this month. 13 stars align in one line.

Everything can be represented by numbers, but it doesn't mean those numbers represent something special. I never understood people believing something else.

I find the article pretty vague and pandering to populist fears. But i do believes that humanity as a whole is screwing up Mother Earth too much. Gaia needs to be care for.

But how will we do it though? Tell all the developing countries to stop trying to get on their feet? Cut down on living standards? Go vegan? There are a lot of possible solutions but no clear cut one, and using scientific rationality we have to verify and research them before we validate even considering their feasability.

Let me resurrect Mr. Carlin for a few minutes... ;]

Saying it again, we should REALLY start up with the space exploration again.

I'm strongly against it. It doesn't change a thing where we'll go. We'll stay the way we are now and were since the beginning - petty, greedy thieves, proud of our little, shiny trinkets, afraid of anything that challenges the vision of the way world works we created for ourselves. Until we'll grow up enough to cease destroying everything we don't understand, we shouldn't move out of our sandbox yet.

Why ? Because until we share the same globe, there's still a hope for some sort of understanding, unity. Even some fanatics will think twice about unleashing nuclear horror if there's a possibility that it will bite them back in their asses. When we'll spread to planets and moons, there will be no chance for peace.

...At least that's what i think. :]

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

The Latinos are mutating!
And they are HEATING UP THE PLANET!

You know what makes me kinda depressed? I mean, yeah, I guess humanity dying out at some point and all. But if that happens and there is some sort of ice age, new life will develop afterwards. And I won't be around to see that new life. I'll never know what it looks like, how the Earth will be in another 3000 years time.

Could always have yourself frozen.

Oh no! They got Sarah! She is in a conga line!

You sir, are amazing.

 

[Clearing the Eye]

Heads up: you need an apostrophe in your heading. It should be "Earth's Collapse Imminent."

 

[hutchy27]

From the article: "The researchers believe that a planetary shift cannot be avoided anymore. However, the impact can be delayed or minimized, if we "drastically" lower the planet's population "very quickly","

Erm... are they implying what I think they are? Has science just condoned mass killings?!

We need to save people! Why don't we kill most of them, then that way it won't kill them because they'll already be dead! It's genius I say. -__-

 

[Yopaz]

Geez, that article really just looked like a scare tactic thing to me. If we reduce the population and minimize our material goods the effects might be minimized. A planetary shift wont be as bad because we lower the population? Where is the logic?

I'm no expert on the subject, but it seems like just another doomsday theory and I honestly got my money on us all dying at the end of the year so I can't really back away from that.

 

[geK0]

It's true! Haven't you seen the documentary "2012"?

 

[PromethianSpark]

As someone who's been studying geography for 5 years now and who keeps up to date with actual, properly sourced research, as opposed to unsubstantiated fearmongering sensationalism, I'm afraid I have to call bollocks on the entirety of that *snicker* article.

Are you referring to the linked article you just read or the actual research in question. As far as I know there is no link to the research. So unless you did a literature search for an article that is probably forthcoming, read it, reasonably challenged its methodology and findings, all for a brief post on this forum, I don't buy your opinion much either.

P.S. You could also specialise in human geography for all I kno

 

[ActionDan]

Nothing that the earth does concerning it's own biology atmosphere etc happens SUDDENLY. It would happen over hundreds of thousands if not millions of years. the Ice Age didn't JUST happen out of nowhere.

 

[Aprilgold]

Isn't the Yellowstone Caldera theorized to blow sometime soon? That would do the trick I think.

Not "Soon" more like "Any Time" is better. Watched someone from Yellowstne talk about it, their not sure if or when it will explode. All they know is that its overdue for a explosion, doesn't mean it has to explode, just when it does whatever is on the North American continent, below and above it are completely fucked. By completely fucked I'm talking we all die in America of either Loss of Food, Suffocation or the actual Lava from it and that is shortly after the explosion, what happens next is days of the Ash heading for Europe and other countries where everyone and everything becomes buried in Ash making the Air unbreathable like in America and thus the door closes on Human kind because of one fucking volcano.

To tie up. Essentially, Yellowstone is just overdue for a explosion and no one knows when shes going to blow. But when she does everything will pretty much die of suffocation because of all the heavy ash causing us all to not drop dead instantly but gasp at non-existent air.

Seriously, fuck you Yellowstone researchers for telling me this earlier.

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Probably ain't going to happen to their extent. We kill eachother more then the Earth kills us so were probably going to live through it.

 

[PromethianSpark]

Nothing that the earth does concerning it's own biology atmosphere etc happens SUDDENLY. It would happen over hundreds of thousands if not millions of years. the Ice Age didn't JUST happen out of nowhere.

Despite some of the sensational language, it isn't actually suggested that it will happen suddenly. Only that it is practically unstoppable

 

[Sonicron]

As someone who's been studying geography for 5 years now and who keeps up to date with actual, properly sourced research, as opposed to unsubstantiated fearmongering sensationalism, I'm afraid I have to call bollocks on the entirety of that *snicker* article.

Are you referring to the linked article you just read or the actual research in question. As far as I know there is no link to the research. So unless you did a literature search for an article that is probably forthcoming, read it, reasonably challenged its methodology and findings, all for a brief post on this forum, I don't buy your opinion much either.

That's the beauty of the internet - you don't have to believe me in any way, and I don't have to give a damn about whether you believe me or not! After all, your lack of faith in my opinion doesn't change the fact I know it to be true.

P.S. You could also specialise in human geography for all I kno

I do indeed. Doesn't prevent me from paying attention in lectures and seminars on physical geography, however.

 

[Pinkamena]

That article managed to say very little using a lot of words! How about telling us exactly HOW we will cause this shift in the biosphere?

 

[Dags90]

A lot of "we're doooooomed" without any real information. Or, more likely, any properly made up information.

I have some hard evidence I think you'll find hard to disagree with.

Spoiler

 

[Casual Shinji]

So the last shift was 12.000 years ago?

In that case, we survived it once we'll survive it again. My bold curiosity has been peaked.

I'm more nervous about Yellowstone.

 

[Hamish Durie]

In light of this recent news I'm going to hug a panda

 

[Montezuma's Lawyer]

If it had any reliability, it wouldnt be on some shitty website.

 

[PromethianSpark]

That's the beauty of the internet - you don't have to believe me in any way, and I don't have to give a damn about whether you believe me or not! After all, your lack of faith in my opinion doesn't change the fact I know it to be true.

P.S. You could also specialise in human geography for all I kno

I do indeed. Doesn't prevent me from paying attention in lectures and seminars on physical geography, however.

Your confident assertion that you know something to be true is not becoming of an academic, particularly of a social scientist. I am not getting at the social sciences as I myself am a post-graduate sociology student, and I have a lot of respect for human geography. What I am saying though, is that you hearing things in a few lectures is not quite the same claim to truth as someone on the forefront of research. I am not saying that what they say is true either, just that their claim to truth is better.

 

[Guffe]

An ice age you say?

BRING IT ON, I hate Summer and Spring.

We here in Finland already survived one so why not another?
Don't mess with us mother nature!

 

[maxturbo211]

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