I wanted to post tonight but Blogger wasn't being very cooperative, so I'm going to make this a quickie while (if) the connection lasts.
I was watching a show tonight on "the National Geographic Channel" (yes I watch that kind of stuff) it was called "End Day". It was about possible scenarios for the end of the world.
There have been a lot of shows and movies out lately about the end of the world and possible post holocaust scenarios and this just happens to be one of my favorite subjects. I really like shows like "Armageddon" and "The Day After Tomorrow."
There have been so many documentaries lately about the impending pandemic, super volcanoes, tsunamis, global warming, ice ages, and meteors that it seems like every other show is about some extinction level event (e.l.e. which has now crept into our vocabulary.)
My questions to you, my gentle readers, would be, do you think that some catastrophe is about to befall us and if so which of the many possibilities do you thinks is most likely? Do you think all these shows are nothing more than hype?
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9 comments:
You are not alone. I am a huge fan of NGC too. I opted to avoid watching "End Day" because I am so prone to over-react to such things. Sometime I will post about the drastic measures I took to prepare for Y2K. I had never in my life believed that world was going to end like I did in the 2 years prior to New Years 2000!
I tend to believe something is going to get us, but I am sitting on the fence between pandemic and nuclear war.
No offense, but I so wish I hadn't read this on your blog, just mere minutes before sawing off some ZZZ's for the night. It will be absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for me to sleep now!
Sorry to bother ya. Can't sleep ye know?
I just checked out your profile..and I have to say I am thrilled to meet another RUSH fan...I just KNEW it when you left that " Bastille Day" comment...Hell YEAH!
Catch the spit,
Spidey
eeeeep! it's times like this that I choose to simply hide under my rock and write my romance novels in happy oblivion.
I am SO not prone to worry 'bout things like that.
Fear-mongering...that's what I call it!
Thanks Guys
Spidey - Sorry my post wrecked your sleep, but if it had caused your sleep it would have been worse. I'm a bit of a survivalist so I was already ready for Y2K, I'm not a fanatic with a bomb shelter or anything like that, I just like deep woods survival...RUSH Rocks! I have a friend who is a huge Kiss fan and is always saying they are the greatest band ever so I always throw Rush in his face... "We monitor his station."
Pobble - You shouldn't hide under your rock...unless it's steel reinforced concrete...:)
Fearless - I don't worry about such things, I just like speculating about them. I do feel we should start colonies on the moon and mars just so we don't have all our eggs in one basket...Hey your blogsite blew up...Van Couver is still there isn't it?
As a kid I saw some Nosrtrodomis (sp) that scared the hell out of me. I fell asleep crying every night for 2 years sure the world was going to end. No wonder I am so screwed up.
Now I just don't think it will happen in my lifetime. But with our energy plan maybe in the next 200 years.
I am far more likely to think that it will be something that we do to ourselves rather than some random act like a meteor (although I am a HUGE fan of disaster flicks). I have trouble with movies that I feel pose more likely scenarios (the nightmare I had after watching Outbreak would be legendary). Nuclear...totally possible. Biological....Oh Yeah, at the top of the list. Chemical...Yup. Rendering planet incapable of sustaining us....yeah, buddy. (Reminds me of George Carlin ragging on environmentalists...how they talk about saving the planet, but what they are really worried about is saving our ability to live on the plant...after all, the planet will more than likely survive whatever we do and will go on happily when we are all gone.)
Thanks Guys
Liz - I always thought Nostradamus (sp?) was a farce. I can write ambiguous stuff that has to be interpreted...I don't think you are screwed up. I think you have one of the best senses of humor I've ever seen...
Hope - I watched a show the next night after I blogged this called "Countdown to Doomsday". It was on the Sci-Fi channel of all places and was a documentary (the first time I had seen them show something that wasn't fiction) and it brought up a new one that I hadn't heard of before called a "Gamma Ray Burst". It's when 2 large stars collide and send out a burst of Gamma Rays that can annihilate everything for thousands of light years away. This can wipe out life on more than 1 planet (if there is life on more than 1 planet)...Great one more thing to worry about...:)
I'll just add it to my list of things to fret about!
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