PANIC!! Button of DOOOOOM!

[1durphul]

It seems that every single day there is some news story indicating that all of us, each and every single one of us, will be dead by the end of the week.

I suggest we collect them for historical purposes so that we may forever relive the near catastrophes we have escaped each day.

For me personally I am feeling a great sense of Panic about the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. Todays most recent news story about Sierra Leone shutting down for 3 days to identify potential victims, and the UN Security council meeting on a health issue for only the second time ever, well, let's just say I'm freaked the fuck out:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/1 ... 5244.html?

The thing that really gives me concern though is that I've been watching this graph getting updated weekly on the Wikipedia article about this breakout since July and that red line just keeps getting steeper:


(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_viru ... est_Africa )

[666isMONEY]

i'm very afraid of a belch of methane from under arctic permafrost that could cause abrupt climate change. methane is 20-times more potent than CO2.
http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate ... nd-update/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

[geospyder]

Beware the Mellow Yellow - about 4.7% of the world slip and die on a banana peel a day (usually slip and fall on concrete or something hard which is what kills them). Found on the internet so it must be true

[ygmir]

I've worn a helmet since talking to "Chicken Little".

[Elderberry]

Don't pay any attention to Lindsy Graham.

[burner von braun]

[media]

[Sic Pup]

I was too paralized with fear yesterday to post but now that the vote is over I can sleep again (swssh...that was a close one)

[GreyCoyote]

One monster CME is all it would take to send us back 200
years ago. Or one good smack upside the planetary head by a good-sized asteroid. You can confront all of these fears, and realize how many times these things have already happened, at http://www.spaceweather.com.

[666isMONEY]

thing about ebola is: they fear it may mutate and become airborne so that you can catch it like a cold

ocean acidification due to global warming (CO2 being absorbed by the oceans) could cause extinction of all the fish that depend on plankton or pteropods (not able to form shells). many are saying we're very close to the tipping point.

on facebook, i'm a member of the Near Term Human Extinction group, which believes arctic methane will fry the planet.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NTHESupportGroup/

[unjonharley]

Fuck the rest of ya! My mortality is so close. I don't give a rats ass.

No, Gray Coyote I'm not dead yet..

[Tin Halo]

thing about ebola is: they fear it may mutate and become airborne so that you can catch it like a cold

Just watch. It'll mutate to that point, and then shortly after one of the major pharms will announce a preventative.
Yes, no suspicious pattern there.

[unjonharley]

thing about ebola is: they fear it may mutate and become airborne so that you can catch it like a cold

Just watch. It'll mutate to that point, and then shortly after one of the major pharms will announce a preventative.
Yes, no suspicious pattern there.

You forgot to say; The new preventative will be under a new patenet.. Costing so much middle income can not afford.. This has been the way to cull the flock..

[some seeing eye]

It is not possible today to develop a vaccine or treatment as fast as an airborne with that incubation period can spread. Happy Friday!

The media likes sensation. Mammalian panic reflex. But humans are not immune from extinction just because we are humans.

[1durphul]

thing about ebola is: they fear it may mutate and become airborne so that you can catch it like a cold

Maybe the world will get lucky and an airborne ebola will kill it's victims faster than they can effectively spread it.

[Tin Halo]

thing about ebola is: they fear it may mutate and become airborne so that you can catch it like a cold

Just watch. It'll mutate to that point, and then shortly after one of the major pharms will announce a preventative.
Yes, no suspicious pattern there.

You forgot to say; The new preventative will be under a new patenet.. Costing so much middle income can not afford.. This has been the way to cull the flock..

I didn't forget to say it. I figured it's obvious.

[Tin Halo]

It is not possible today to develop a vaccine or treatment as fast as an airborne with that incubation period can spread.

You're missing the point.
It doesn't have to become airborne. The manufactured frenzy of it - illustrated with a handful of 'cases' - will trigger the pandemic for the anitdote, and more people will go broke as a result.

[1durphul]

Parasitic worms that eat your eyes from the inside to trick birds into eating your eyes from the outside.

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/absurd-cre ... isco-worm/

[GreyCoyote]

No, Gray Coyote I'm not dead yet..

Well, you cant fault a guy for trying.

I mean seriously.... Sadie, Sunbeam, Kowtow, Elliot, Chuck, FIGJAM, Steve, MaryAnimal, Laura and Lexi and I sorta have this bet going as to the date. Rather like fantasy football...

[Sunbeam56]

Global warming... The oceans will rise, hurricanes will be stronger, winters will be colder, the deserts will bloom, and humans will be living with cave bears...

[unjonharley]

No, Gray Coyote I'm not dead yet..

Well, you cant fault a guy for trying.

I mean seriously.... Sadie, Sunbeam, Kowtow, Elliot, Chuck, FIGJAM, Steve, MaryAnimal, Laura and Lexi and I sorta have this bet going as to the date. Rather like fantasy football...

quote my Grandmother.. "I'll be around to pat a shovel full of dirt in all of your faces".

[1durphul]

Oh, neat, the Wikipedia page's ebola graph uses the same file name when it is updated, so that chart at the start of this thread stays alive.

This weeks fear: ISIS/Al Qaeda subway terrorism threat in Paris and US.

[Tin Halo]

Well, they can sure blow up any Subway they happen across. I'll find another sandwich shop. Won't be hard.

[tatonka]

yellowstone will blow when we are at BM next year and everyone will be covered in ash like pompei , 1000's of years in the future they will uncover the playa and wonder what went on

[FIGJAM]

It'll be just like any other whiteout!

[Patsh]

Ya, we're still wondering!

[kiboy]

Fuck the rest of ya! My mortality is so close. I don't give a rats ass.

No, Gray Coyote I'm not dead yet..

I'm there too. Over all I have no great love for the human species. Let the suffering end. I'm all for it. I guess I'm a bodhisattva at heart.

[tatonka]

just turned 59 and the best is yet to come

[kiboy]

You're too old and dated. Make way for the new now a go go generation. Think soylent green.

[GreyCoyote]

Im thinking "polyester leisure suits". THOSE things were really scary...

[Sunbeam56]

There is a tourist being treated for ebola in Dallas.
Really? Who is going to travel to Nigeria just now?