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Armageddin’ It
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Slate lets you pick and choose your favorite end-of-the-world scenarios.
I’m a supervolcano man, myself.
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When the aliens return to end this failed Earth experiment, then you will all see.
Comet.
And we’re gonna know it is coming and there is not going to be a damn thing we can do about it.
Zombies. I demand zombies.
I’m all about the nukes. And Putin’s bald head.
Slate called me a “Bloodthirsty Misanthrope”…should I be insulted or gratified?
Obesity, hands down.
“And we’re gonna know it is coming and there is not going to be a damn thing we can do about it.”
Well, if it weren’t for the government, the free market could no doubt take care of the problem. LOL
Shit. I am going to have to rethink it. I was talking about the end of the world. The article is about the end of America.
First I am going to have to figure out what America is and how I will know it is gone.
I chose Supervolcano, floods, hurricanes and ice age, although the latter three could always be a by-product of the former.
I was a Gaia-hating doomsayer.
I put in Patriot Act, Nationalized Industries and Robot Overlords and was told I was a Anthropocentric Pragmatist. I guess I just found out what my new tattoo will say in huge, Olde English letters.
Kudos to Slate for putting Patrick Swayze in Red Dawn as the “foreign invasion” scenario. WOLVERINES!
I think that Radley is trying to score bonus points for Hair Band Fridays by using a Def Leppard lyric.
I pick corporate takeover.
I put in several secession-based scenarios, and got “humanitarian internationalist”. Except for the whole one-world government thing, I’d say that’s actually pretty accurate…
I got “Gay Dinosaur Marriage”?
WTF?!
Correction: End of “United States”, not “World”.
Many would say the United States is already over (I agree).
“I’m a supervolcano man, myself.” — RB
Yes, and as we know, that’s when we’ll all get a taste of the anarchy I would like to see.
;-)
H1N1 is my fave.
I’m suprised Radley didn’t balme gay marriage, seeing how it is the cause of everything else that is wrong in America.
I picked all five Canada-related options. Very few people died.
Also, the “Big Brother” option is laaaaame. “A supercomputer with hyperadvanced artificial intelligence takes over the government. See Eagle Eye and Colossus: The Forbin Project.” Here’s a tip: If you can’t follow it with “See: 1984” it’s not Big Brother!
I’m with #3-Fluffy. I demand, nay, insist upon zombies. I’ve studied “28 Days Later” several times. People, that is not a movie! It is a survival manual! :-P
I think MacGregory’s aliens will be eaten by the zombies. Talk about being pwnd.
They missed my personal favorite:
Another star colliding with the sun.
I grant this is end-of-the-world, but I suspect that would probably include the end of the US.
# 70. Please, pretty please!
BTW, what happened to the TwistedWhiteLionSnakerella countdown?
An asteroid running smack dab into a supervolcano during a climate change induced hurricane.
Only then do the zombies come for the survivors.
@ David # 17
What really pissed me off about The Forbin Project was how stupid the computer was. All it had to do was just keep giving the governments solutions to problems and they would have given it complete control in a couple of years. No need to nuke anybody.
I will live through the zombie horde …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombie_Survival_Guide
A combination of a bunch of things is doing America in. Some of those are listed.
Getting rid of humans as a species however, will be more difficult than getting rid of cockroaches and rats.
Despite the inexplicable absence of zombies as a choice, I played the game.
I picked electromagnetic pulses, internal guerrilla warfare, space attacks, and tax revolts. Mainly because I would like to start a tax revolt that turns into internal guerrilla warfare that triumphs over the current government by launching EMP attacks from space.
It called me a bloodthirsty misanthrope. I don’t think that’s a fair characterization.
@ Fluffy # 25
Sometimes people say things to be hurtful.
Sometimes people say things because they’re true.
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This is a “twofer”.
;P
I am also judged to be Bloodthirsty Misanthrope. Slate is correct!
It helps to keep your expectations low when it comes to human behavior.
bloodthirsty misanthrope.
It’s like it knows me.
Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.
-Tool
Is it just me being super cynical or were many of the scenarios already playing out, aka internal guerilla warfare, obama as god, and the bubba effect?