How the world may end - seriously
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this was published in The Citizen Scientist
it doesn't look fake.. and it sent chills down my spine...
there are mad and reality-divorced boffins out there who actually think like this...
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Saving the Earth with Ebola
Professor Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive without drastic measures. Then, and without presenting any data to justify this number, he asserted that the only feasible solution to saving the Earth is to reduce the population to 10 percent of the present number.
He then showed solutions for reducing the world's population in the form of a slide depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. War and famine would not do, he explained. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved.
Pianka then displayed a slide showing rows of human skulls, one of which had red lights flashing from its eye sockets.
AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs.
After praising the Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka paused, leaned over the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, “We've got airborne 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that.”
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then this happened
When Pianka finished his remarks, the audience applauded. It wasn't merely a smattering of polite clapping that audiences diplomatically reserve for poor or boring speakers. It was a loud, vigorous and enthusiastic applause.
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read the complete article and the follow-up => The Citizen Scientist -
i just know that human beings cant survive beyond 3000AD. how they extinct not my business
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crazy scientist..
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ebola...one of my fav bugs
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Maybe the audience are not listening or they think all scientist are geniuses.
Anyway if they were to do that, won't they be part of the whole 'grand scheme'.
Most likely sheep mentality at play there
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Ebola may sound logical, but releasing anthrax bacteria might well be faster than Ebola. Anthrax mortality rate isn't low either. Especially those airborne ones.
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yeah! i agree with him.
best is to release the virus the day i die. 90% of earth population die with me... woohoo! -
Ridiculous.
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i think he should modify it, make the bug resistant to drugs, infects and destroys cells much more easily.
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i know one day i will die...then my world will come to an end...but i hope i will see my own end first before the world ends
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Is Dr. Doom stupid or what? No logical or even sane person would think of killing 5 billion people just to conserve the environment which would eventually be destroyed by the survivors instead.
Rather, one should talk about sending those 5 billion people, thousands at a time, on monthly trips to a base built on the Moon, where overpopulation would be drastically reduced on Earth because the human species would be spread out on 2 bodies, Earth and Luna. Now, if NASA hasn't been so slow in its actions, we would already have a lunar base by now. Instead, I predict that a base on the moon would be built by the year 2022, with construction beginning in 2015-2018. Since resources on Earth are running out, it is only logical to assume that the next body we should mine for minerals and resources would be the moon. Instead of killing 5 billion people, we could send a few, maybe 2/5s of that number, 2 billion, to the Lunar Colony. From Luna, we would terraform Mars, and after a few centuries, or even decades, Mars would be made suitable for the rest of the 5 billion (which would have multiplayed by 3 times), to live on the desert planet. From Mars, we would be able to gather a large pool of resources to advance next to a suitable body in the Sol System to live in, for example, Iapetus, Ganymede, Europa, or Enceladus (of course, after terraforming). If this plan is taken into consideration soon, we would no longer fear overpopulation of Terra, or even the over-use of resources on this planet. -
x2Originally posted by newmanmback:i know one day i will die...then my world will come to an end...but i hope i will see my own end first before the world ends -
i suppose the people who would be bothered to hear such a fanatic are probably pretty on the fringe as well....
at any rate, ebola or not.... looks like flu is going to do the job for him. -
sort of makes sense.
over population is causing the environment that sustains us all to fail.
since humans have no natural controls on the population. i guess we have to sacrifice some for the sake of the rest rather than all of us die together.
of course choosing who to die is hard. but the theory is sound even if it sounds morally wrong -
WE DONT HAVE TO SACRIFICE ANYBODY OKAY. I WROTE IN MY POST THAT WE CAN JUST SEND EXTRAS OFF-WORLD!Originally posted by hisoka:sort of makes sense.
over population is causing the environment that sustains us all to fail.
since humans have no natural controls on the population. i guess we have to sacrifice some for the sake of the rest rather than all of us die together.
of course choosing who to die is hard. but the theory is sound even if it sounds morally wrong -
Send them off to somewhere that we can't survive is as good as sacrificing them. Only that it seems like a better way of killing them.Originally posted by SixSentinels:WE DONT HAVE TO SACRIFICE ANYBODY OKAY. I WROTE IN MY POST THAT WE CAN JUST SEND EXTRAS OFF-WORLD! -
Send where?Originally posted by SixSentinels:WE DONT HAVE TO SACRIFICE ANYBODY OKAY. I WROTE IN MY POST THAT WE CAN JUST SEND EXTRAS OFF-WORLD! -
oh well i guess thats what all that money being poured into space programs is for???Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Send them off to somewhere that we can't survive is as good as sacrificing them. Only that it seems like a better way of killing them. -
suddenly reminds of of that spaceship in Hitchhiker's guide that had all the art directors and marketing executives in it
One of the key reasons that made me do a mid career switch. wouldnt ever want to feel that i deserve being in that spaceship. -
Cannibalism is the solution to world hunger.
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fu.cking obvious to save environment the cheapskate way is to kill humans lar. but there are alternatives rather than releasing viruses and stuff -.- what a dumb guy. should be put in jail for saying this
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Originally posted by Cenarious:Cannibalism is the solution to world hunger.
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Ebola kills in days?
The "real potent human type" Bird flu kills thousands or even more overnight
I vote for bird flu -
isnt ebola just an african name..
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and i vote for terrorist attack.Originally posted by maggot:Ebola kills in days?
The "real potent human type" Bird flu kills thousands or even more overnight
I vote for bird flu
Everday we have to worry if they will place some bomb or watever it is..
who knows in future they won't use bomb anymore and instead use something more power