So Guys, We're going to all die this time again

[geldonyetich]

To put things into perspective, looking at this list of oil spills [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills], this BP spill is pretty damn big at ~220-380 ktons of oil spilled. However, the largest spill in history [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeview_Gusher], back in 1910, was about 1,230 ktons. So it's not definitely the end of the world. It is, however, nasty environmental damage that will take decades or centuries to recover from, and a stiff reminder we need to seek alternative energy sources.

 

[iLikeHippos]

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we CAN bend light. prisms bend them.

Optics? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism_%28optics%29]

I am referring to something other than tiny mirrors. I am referring to the ability to turn invisible - you can't see what doesn't shine back at you.
Scientists are working on it as we type actually. Heard it from the newspaper once.

 

[Kwaren]

If there is nothing we can do, why worry?

 

[ImperialSunlight]

"Hold on just one minute, 96% of the ENTIRE PLANET dying off, isn't that bad? What the hell sorta thought process brought you to that conclusion? Hell 96% of a single city dying is reason enough to panic let alone 96% of the planet."

essentiallly if there were 100 humans back then, 96 of them would die. If there are 6,697,254,041 humans (wich there are according to google), a bit more than 96 would die. Probably.

 

[shoot and hope]

if it was the end of the world you think they might mention it on the news instead of talking about cats playig with string

 

[lacktheknack]

I don't think that this'll kill very many people, this kind of thing happens naturally anyway, nature does have ways of restoring balance.

Frankly it's a lot of mess but it's hardly unknown for oil to enter nature, it does lie in undersea deposits after all.

You didn't read it, it's about methane.

And there's a decent chance it won't happen... IF we can stop the oil spill from, um, spilling. And even if we don't, it still probably won't happen.

I've heard of this before, it was on Cracked months ago and I did Geology at secondary school years previous to that. It's hardly a new phenomenon and I've heard of it before. People do seem to have a tendency to get a bit too excited about this kind of thing though, it's not like oil spills threaten all life every time they're spilt, though that oil spill is kind of making a mess.

Again, it's not about the oil spill.

 

[shoot and hope]

you think they would mention it in the news instead of them talkng about cats playing with string

 

[theriddlen]

Hey, the thing that killed most of the earth's life forms a long time ago was mostly malnutrition, and it's reason was bigass cloud created by explosion, that prevented flora from growing. Today, we are not that dependent on external food sources, we can survive.

 

[Bashful Reaper]

so theoretically 267,890,162 humans will be around afterwards. You have better odds than winning a lottery as being one of the survivors. I'm feeling lucky... Or I think it's a load of bollocks.

 

[Kron_the_mad wants to be deleted]

if it was the end of the world you think they might mention it on the news instead of talking about cats playig with string

and you think nearly 7 billion idiots panicking will help? That many dumb apes who are incapable of enacting the necessary behavioural changes needed to keep up with the changes made by their technology (and by extension eventually doomed to breed and consume themselves and other species into extinction anyway) that they're all going to die really soon and theres not much they can do about it but also theres a group they can probably take it out on?

Letting large numbers of idiots panic is always a bad idea.

 

[s0denone]

Hey, the thing that killed most of the earth's life forms a long time ago was mostly malnutrition, and it's reason was bigass cloud created by explosion, that prevented flora from growing. Today, we are not that dependent on external food sources, we can survive.

What are you talking about "external food sources"? You can somehow have grain without "flora growing" or cows *not* dying of malnutrition with no "flora growing"?

 

[Oskar K]

Ohh no.. not this shit again.. Honey get my shotgun, i gotta go talk with satan again..

 

[Reenix]

I'm sick of this world anyway. Dying in an oil crisis wouldn't bother me at all.

 

[capin Rob]

Okay, Now I' not looking at the doomsday, I'm looking at what they said. A methan ubble explsion ended the Dinoosaurs, I believe you can write this shit off now. What ended the Dinosaurs was a Large metor chrash in the Gulf of Mexico, not methane bubles.

Correct me f I'm wrong, and don't be a douche about it.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

A great big fart is going to kill us?

If were all going to die, can't it be something cool; like a zombie virus or a biblical apocalypse?

Isn't that buthane?

Buthane isn't for sure, we use it in our kitchens and has quite a strong smell.

 

[Reenix]

Hey, the thing that killed most of the earth's life forms a long time ago was mostly malnutrition, and it's reason was bigass cloud created by explosion, that prevented flora from growing. Today, we are not that dependent on external food sources, we can survive.

What are you talking about "external food sources"? You can somehow have grain without "flora growing" or cows *not* dying of malnutrition with no "flora growing"?

Oh yeah, I forgot about Thanet Earth, the massive greenhousing project that will save our arses once a world-killing event occurs. And it's so very close to where I live! Yay Kent!

 

[crystalsnow]

I'm not sold. I won't discount it totally, it's a billion times more plausible than the 2012 BS, but I'm gonna wait to decide on anything here.

 

[starhaven]

a interesting idea but i fail to see how this will kill me in australia any tsunami started in the gulf will have to cross NA/CA/SA and or africa in order to get to me we may have to deal with the after effects but the event its self is likely to ignore australia like game release times

 

[Sir Kemper]

Look's like the term "Go die in a fire" will soon be taking on an ironic twist...