:sick: http://science.netscape.com/story/2007/04/05/southwest-forecast-expect-90-years-of-drought/ :sick:
The Plague: Dust Bowl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_bowl) is back, after its 80 dormancy!! And it's back to ravage America…
Human-induced change in Earth's atmosphere will leave the American Southwest in perpetual drought for the next 90 years
erm… :unsure:
Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, in 1935. (Actual Photo)
It's experiencing drought yet the population in the Southwest increases.
Meh… the more to experience the Dust Bowl (I wonder who it was that came up with that name).
This just in:
Human interference with the environment to cause a major earthquake in the Tokyo region sometime during the next 50 years.
@Lobster:
Human-induced change in Earth's atmosphere will leave the American Southwest in perpetual drought for the next 90 years
EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
We're all gonna die 22 December, 2012. It's not news, though; I read it in the year 614 BC.
This just in:
Human interference with the environment to cause a major earthquake in the Tokyo region sometime during the next 50 years.
which of course will lead to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scryed
We're all gonna die 22 December, 2012. It's not news, though; I read it in the year 614 BC.
I hope you don't seriously believe that a picture of a bunch of characters representing constellations in a sinking boat with a tree means the exact date of the end of the world.
If you do, this spoiler's for you.
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@Roz:
I hope you don't seriously believe that a picture of a bunch of characters representing constellations in a sinking boat with a tree means the exact date of the end of the world.
I'm not worried about mythical earthquakes, I'm worried about that asteroid that heading for our planet and is expcted to come close or hit around that time.
Good news = those who survive the world's destruction will have a vast, new source of ore and minerals.
Oh, that. Yeah, that asteriod. I look forward to December 22 2012 being the day that I get struck by lightning and win the lottery.
… because the Dust Bowl IS the end of the world.
HAY guys guess what
when you stop living, you will DIE
 
HAY guys guess what
when you stop living, you will DIE
Not if you are in a complete vaccume. :happy:
You will neither continue living, nor cease to live.
Wouldn't that just mean you're stuck in time?
I'm not worried about mythical earthquakes, I'm worried about that asteroid that heading for our planet and is expcted to come close or hit around that time.
Good news = those who survive the world's destruction will have a vast, new source of ore and minerals.
Yeah that. I hope it doesn't destroy Asia or North America. Cause they say it has enough power to destroy a whole continent.
The topic title made it seem like it meant the entire US, not just the Southwest. I did get a little laught though from hearing that there will be a drought, while it's been snowing where I'm at today.
What about the eathquake that is supposed to split california?or somehow break it from the main USA
Southwest? Does that include Cali in someway?
It's a good thing I live in the Northeast. Catastrophe averted.
HAY guys guess what
when you stop living, you will DIE
….......FOREVER!
I'm not worried about mythical earthquakes, I'm worried about that asteroid that heading for our planet and is expcted to come close or hit around that time.
I believe there's a few asteroids on near miss/possible impact courses with us. And although it makes a great headline (or shitty popcorn summer flick or two) there are actually methods already in place and being researched regarding asteroid defense by creating a field around it to redirect it. I shit you not. I made a post about it a few months ago in the Random News thread.
Not if you are in a complete vaccume. :happy:
You will neither continue living, nor cease to live.
Yes, since humans stopped using space suits, space travel has been much easier.
Yeah that. I hope it doesn't destroy Asia or North America. Cause they say it has enough power to destroy a whole continent.
The asteroid will strike Smackover, Arkansas.
Heehee… Smackover.
We don't need to worry about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
@Lobster:
Not if you are in a complete vaccume. :happy:
You will neither continue living, nor cease to live.
really, how does that work?
We don't need to worry about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
That's comforting.
really, how does that work?
It doesn't work. Nor does it cease to work.
Your heart doesn't stop beating, nor does it continue to beat…
So basically you are immortal, in a suspended state of "bleh"ness. Kind of like being burried alive... and not able to die.
Man that would be horrible. :sick:
Man, I need to chear up...
(clicks signature)
Yay!!~ I'm happy again!! 
My signature has the power to chear anyone up. ^^
@Lobster:
It doesn't work. Nor does it cease to work.
Also your heart doesn't stop beating, nor does it continue to beat…
So basically you are immortal, in a suspended state of "bleh"ness. Kind of like being burried alive... and not able to die.
Man that would be horrible. :sick:
Quantum Physics'd! Oh noes!
This all could have been avoided if we had let Professor Membrane give us that free renuable energy… 
I hope that when most of these posters meet irl there will be a concentrated plague/dust bowl/doomsday in that immediate area
Breaking news from years ago:
AUSTRALIA IS IN A FREAKING HEAVY DROUGHT
For once I'm on the same side with Carter…
I believe there's a few asteroids on near miss/possible impact courses with us. And although it makes a great headline (or shitty popcorn summer flick or two) there are actually methods already in place and being researched regarding asteroid defense by creating a field around it to redirect it. I shit you not. I made a post about it a few months ago in the Random News thread.
I'm pretty sure that there isn't any known asteroids which could cause a real threat, I haven't followed science press in a while though, but it is an interesting scenarion even in it's unlikeness. The current problem is that generally our space technology isn't very reliable - it's not rare that something goes wrong - but it isn't something which couldn't be worked out in future. Still, it's very unlikely to happen. And it's not caused by us. Unlike screwing atmosphere.
Breaking news from years ago:
AUSTRALIA IS IN A FREAKING HEAVY DROUGHT
What! It's surrounded by water!
This is the kind of irresponsibility that you get when England dumps its criminals on an island.
California should sell overpriced water to Texas, putting its economy into heavy debt. Then Texas can hold a recall election and vote Yakov Smirnoff into office.
He can then mispronounce Texas (Taxes es wandfal state), and make Russian reversals during crisis speeches:
In Texas, people destroy water supply
In Soviet Russia, water supply destroys people
Then Pat Robertson will declare the drought an act of vengeance from God, because "only steers and queers come from Texas."
California should sell overpriced water to Texas, putting its economy into heavy debt. Then Texas can hold a recall election and vote Yakov Smirnoff into office.
the only way that'd work is if texans actually gave a shit about california's water
! and they dont
when you stop living, you will DIE
Haha, nice try, but that's wrong! People die when they are killed!
I believe there's a few asteroids on near miss/possible impact courses with us. And although it makes a great headline (or shitty popcorn summer flick or two) there are actually methods already in place and being researched regarding asteroid defense by creating a field around it to redirect it. I shit you not. I made a post about it a few months ago in the Random News thread.
$12,000 and two year's worth my life have taught me that such isn't a likely scenario. You've got the religious fanatics (Rapturists) on one side of the political equation who would love for a natural disaster to happen since it's effectively a jump-start to the apocalypse, and something like that would require joint effort by multiple countries and the countries capable of doing it don't like each other.
Best course of action is to use nuclear weapons to divert the asteroid, but people will be afraid of nuke launching and there's no guarantee that won't just break the asteroid up into smaller pieces that can hit multiple areas of the globe.
Which could cause tsunamis or earthquakes as predicted in myth. Personally, I'd like to see the HAB theory come into effect, making Africa the haven of the world, or alternatively global warming could drown the US, freeze Europe and thaw Siberia.
Either way, the Russians or Africans win. In the case of the asteroid, it's the penguins (I'm looking at you, ocean!). 
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