Have you been expecting an apocalyptic event all your life? Such as

devastating plague, nuclear holocaust, asteroid smacking into the earth, etc.?

President of the United States and then want to indoctrinate our nation's children by giving an address to them early in the school year.

Talk about catastrophic.

I've been reading Capitol Men lately, and it doesn't seem all that historic too me. The past didn't go anywhere.

resentment at the election results.

But in other households, there was jubilation.

The jubilation was the proper response. I'd like to see some of these school districts this week remind themselves of their original mission.

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People today don't comprehend the sheer HORROR of what even a limited strike would do. Live by the sword. Die by the sword. I've always had the uneasy suspicion that these ghastly monsters will inevitably sound the death knell for our species.

bang.

Bisto stop making gravy granules

the equivalent of swarming locusts. Covering every surface, devouring everything in sight. Leaving devastation in their wake.

inundated by water :shrug:

But just barely. All the beer and smokes I stocked up on saved me.

They scared the bejebus out of us in elementary school about the "atom bumb." I control what I can. Plagues and

asteroids are above my pay grade.

Very, very jaded. :crazy:

Not even growing up during the "cold war". I used to make fun of my sister for being afraid of a nuclear holocaust, I just have never thought anything like that would happen for a minute.

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I'm prepared for it.

the Soviet Union.

I live in fear of this:

Okay, it only sometimes does. But it has me a worried a tiny bit.

We have a one in 566 chance of a natural explosion over 1.1 megatons in our lifetime. If it were to hit an inhabited area it likely would be the largest instant loss of life in the history of man.

For those who are wondering:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_SG344

It isn't the largest rogue object in space but it is the one with greatest chance of hitting earth in next 100 years (that we know about).

a real danger. They have two astronauts working on a gravity-powered asteroid tractor. It could pull the asteroid into a new orbit. http://www.space.com/news/051109_asteroid_tractor.html

and sufficient space resources that launching a long range mission is routine in nature.

On a % basis the asteroid doesn't need to be moved much to miss the earth. Space is well mostly empty space.

However asteroids have tremendous momentum due to their large mass & high speed so it is like trying to turn a cruise liner by having a swimmer push against one side of its bow. You could do it but it would take decades to alter the course even a single degree.

the collapse of the world's web of life. I think it will happen in my lifetime.

Crazy religious asshats.

but now I'm ready.



Sid

It's a very good book. Max Brooks is trying to warn us!

even worse than Reagan

since the tech crash, i've settled on a financial crash being what does us in, rather than a natural disaster or even da bomb. my current expectation is that the money woes combined with, and partly caused by a shortage of resources, will eventually reach the point the entire economy as we know it grinds to a halt. of course when that happens the likelihood of an actual apocalyptic event to finish us off goes up greatly.

Some friend of theirs told them about the Mayan prophesy. (Which I diligently googled to try to help them get over their fears, and apparently the non-OMG thinking is that it's not that the world will blow up or anything, there'll just be a big shift in the way things work--according to some interpretations, for the better. Unfortunately, the bulk of the stuff on the Internets has an OMG slant, so they still don't believe me.)

When I was a kid I read a book of mystics' predictions, etc, and became absolutely convinced that the world would end in 1999.

I also went to a speech by Helen Caldicott (was that her name?) and was terrified that there would accidentally be a nuclear war.

Always, since I was little.

it happening anytime soon.

Not so much expecting as wondering when it will happen and what it will be. And not all my life, only after I was old enough to grasp what the book of Revelations was all about.

Then as I grew up I learned about meteorites and super volcanoes and then I read the HAB theory and learned about quasars and gamma rays...

So yeah, kinda, but not really.

I love those megadisaster shows on TV.

I Duck and Cover - Duck and Cover

Yellowstone blowing up and covering about half the nation in volcanic ash.

I spent half the weekend watching the History Channel's Apocalypes marathon, so forgive me.

expecting one? No.

worrying about "The Rapture". I went to church with my friends and heard all about it. My non-religious parents had to forbid me to go anymore and had to do serious deprogramming in order to calm me down.

that would never happen...

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great book!

running things, anyway.