Five Biggest Threats to Humanity

[Jackstar]

There is only Sol.

Four words in and you've already driven straight off the rez. Hello, Dolly!

Biological warfare of this sort is the next nuke scare. The more we learn about the genome of viruses, the more dangerous and evident this will become.

You are not wrong. Also, imagine a virus that only affects uncircumcised males, and makes them become obsessed with handwashing. We have the technology... but do we have the will??

[bottomfeederareus]

The biggest threat to humanity is the banned members of bellgab that became unbanned. They are our zombies of the forum world.

[Jackstar]

It's cool bro. I am here to stand between you and they. Don't make a big deal out of it.

[bottomfeederareus]

It's cool bro. I am here to stand between you and they. Don't make a big deal out of it.

Are you the leader of the bellgab zombies??

[Jackstar]

Are you the leader of the bellgab zombies??

Negative, Ghost Rider! I can barely get the Army of The Twelve Monkeys to meet for brunch!

[bottomfeederareus]

Negative, Ghost Rider! I can barely get the Army of The Twelve Monkeys to meet for brunch!

If your not the leader, who is the leader of the zombies? Hal, falkie, casio, eddie coyle or lilly?

[Jackstar]

If your not

muhahahahahaahaha

[bigchucka]

If your not the leader, who is the leader of the zombies? Hal, falkie, casio, eddie coyle or lilly?

I asked about the first and told the second...

[Jackstar]

Who's feeding strangers and needs a new icon? Awww!!!

[kf5iwe]

They did it in South Africa. Remember the guy they tried to pin the Anthrax attacks on first? I think his name was Hatfield. Anyway he was a professor here at LSU. And in 1983 the U.S. Army, who he was contracted to, sent him to South Africa to work on viruses that were racialy coded. This came out in the investication of him conducted by mainstream media at the time.

[albrecht]

They did it in South Africa. Remember the guy they tried to pin the Anthrax attacks on first? I think his name was Hatfield. Anyway he was a professor here at LSU. And in 1983 the U.S. Army, who he was contracted to, sent him to South Africa to work on viruses that were racialy coded. This came out in the investication of him conducted by mainstream media at the time.

Wow, I knew that some info came out in "Truth And Reconciliation" stuff but I didn't know Hatfield and US was involved! I knew names like Goosen etc. Also one of Danny Casolaro's informants on the INSLAW/PROMIS affair, Michael Risconscuito, alleged US was working on similar types (he was then arrested for drug offenses, of course.) News reports have said that Israel was working on similar (possibly in conjunction with South Africa. It is pretty much common knowledge about the nuke information and/or materiel deals between them.)

Imagine what they could do today with the advances in technology and the almost unlimited funding by governments or terrorists? And a lot cheaper and easier than making nukes (though manipulating the virus etc to target only certain genetic markers is more $$ to develop.)

[Jackstar]

The fact that it happened at the same time and it was swept under the rug is a massive red flag--false, or other/any wise.

Is there any Kool-Aid left? I need something to wash down these fluoride cakes with! :rolleyes:

[yumyumtree]

OK Ill weigh in.

1. Radical Islam
2. Diseases such as the Ebola crisis in Africa right now, or antibiotic resistance.
3. Totalitarianism
4. Economic and historic illiteracy resulting in totalitarian leaders
5. Comet or asteroid (I know this is one of George's pet things, but so be it.)

I realize that I haven't posted on the Books that Kicked your ass thread yet but it's because I'm 58 years old and have read so many books that the post would be unreasonably long.

[yumyumtree]

I recall a crazy caller "predicting" small animals turning on people in Canadian parks one year with Ian Punnett hosted the New Years prediction line. It was quite funny his prediction and also how Ian handled the call and dragged the whole story out of him....."it would start with raccoons and squirrels". It was on YouTube at some point because so funny. But I couldn't find it now.

I think it may have started with one of my cats.
But I do remember the call and the caller.

[yumyumtree]

I guess I should revise the point I made about radical Islam:  any religion that produces so much violence is a danger.  It just seems like in 4/5ths of the war zones, radical Islam is a major issue.

Are they part of these awful things going on in the Sudan now?

[yumyumtree]

5. EMP from the sun, or the detonation of a nuclear weapon at a certain altitude by a rogue nation or terrorists.

4. Armageddonist terrorists from any religion getting ahold of a virus like smallpox, or one of the hybrids like Ebolapox that the Soviets supposedly developed.

3. Anything that disrupts debit card transactions or cash withdrawals for longer than three days. People don't realize it, but at any given time we are three days from Mad Max. That's the average amount of food people keep on hand, and also the average amount grocery stores stock. Even the most belligerent liberal will wish they had a gun after only three days. We came dangerously close to this within all of our living memory, if Bush hadn't instituted immediate measures to ensure that the banks wouldn't freeze their own accounts during the beginning of the 2008 recessions, part of the so-called bank bailout, it would have happened like dominos falling.

2. The flu virus mutates in a bad way like the 1918 Spanish flu did.

1. Artificial Intelligence gone wrong. As Frederic Brown wrote, if you ask the supercomputer "Is there a god?" and it comes back with "There is now", then you've got a problem.

And a bonus: a country, such as China, genetically modifying a slate-wiper virus that targets everyone without a genetic trait such as the epicanthic fold and letting it loose the moment they run out of resources.

Well said

[yumyumtree]

As I understand it, Hugh Hefner founded Playboy because he knew that there were urban men like him who weren't interested in hunting, fishing or outdoorsy stuff and he wanted to create a magazine for that niche. So it wasn't just about sex.

[onan]

Humanity

[analog kid]

* Religious fundamentalism
* four other things

[b_dubb]

Humanity, jazmunda's GI tract, GMO foods, Taintco and Onan after an all you can eat buffet at a Mexican restaraunt

[onan]

Humanity, jazmunda's GI tract, GMO foods, Taintco and Onan after an all you can eat buffet at a Mexican restaraunt

In all candor... Mongolian grill. I can destroy 5 city blocks within minutes of finishing the first entree.

[SciFiAuthor]

In all candor... Mongolian grill. I can destroy 5 city blocks within minutes of finishing the first entree.

So now we know why the giant septic tank was needed.

[wr250]

In all candor... Mongolian grill. I can destroy 5 city blocks within minutes of finishing the first entree.

this is gabcast materiel .

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

1.  Facebook/Mark Zuckerberg
2.  Artificial intelligence
3.  Gamma ray flare emission from a nearby and as yet undiscovered magnetar
4.  Lack of clean water
5.  Religion (or if you prefer,  the human impulse to have religions)

[b_dubb]

Gay marriage. No one has said 'gay marriage' yet. Maybe there's hope for us yet.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

Gay marriage. No one has said 'gay marriage' yet. Maybe there's hope for us yet.

6) People who obsess about fags getting married.

[b_dubb]

6) People who obsess about fags getting married.

7) People who can't grasp sarcasm

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

7) People who can't grasp sarcasm

  People who say stupendously ironic things without being aware of it

[b_dubb]

  People who say stupendously ironic things without being aware of it

Indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T30ltYfSzRc

[Heather Wade]

1.)  Plastic.
2.)  Stupidity.
3.)  Running out of potable water.
4.)  Running out of power/oil.
5.)  Death of the oceans.