Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[Benny B]

Seeing this thread bumped up reminds me that I shirked my duty a couple weeks ago when we here in Charlotte were terrorized by the BRAIN-EATING AMOEBA!!!!

Isn't having a brain amoeba a prerequisite for living in Charlotte?

[mu_hilltopper]

Sweet doom.

http://qz.com/657514/superbugs-could-kill-10-million-people-by-2050-if-a-lot-of-things-dont-change-fast/

[warriorchick]

Sweet doom.

http://qz.com/657514/superbugs-could-kill-10-million-people-by-2050-if-a-lot-of-things-dont-change-fast/

Well, to be fair, we are way overdue for a major pandemic.  And 10 million (less than .2% of the world's population) is nothing compared to the deaths associated with the Spanish Flu or the Bubonic Plague.

[naginiF]

I'll take my chances against the super bug pandemic over the clown apocalypse any day:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/28/what-we-know-creepy-clown-reports-across-nation/91171858/

[tower912]

Well, to be fair, we are way overdue for a major pandemic.  And 10 million (less than .2% of the world's population) is nothing compared to the deaths associated with the Spanish Flu or the Bubonic Plague.

We have an old-age pandemic going on right now.   80-90 year olds are dying in unprecedented numbers and nobody is reporting it!         

[manny31]

We have an old-age pandemic going on right now.   80-90 year olds are dying in unprecedented numbers and nobody is reporting it!       

I think this might be the best post ever. Very well done!

[Benny B]

Sweet doom.

http://qz.com/657514/superbugs-could-kill-10-million-people-by-2050-if-a-lot-of-things-dont-change-fast/

Is that really daily doom?  All 10 million of those people will probably be dead by 2050 any way.  I want my doom now, dammit!

[mu_hilltopper]

Is that really daily doom?  All 10 million of those people will probably be dead by 2050 any way.  I want my doom now, dammit!

Tough chit.  You will have your doom in small, dreadful quantities that haunt many nights' sleep, and you'll like it.  Except not.

[Benny B]

You will have your doom in small, dreadful quantities that haunt many nights' sleep, and you'll like it.

You call it doom, I call it having three kids... tomato, tomahto.

[mu_hilltopper]

Here's some doom for you:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/technology/how-the-internet-is-loosening-our-grip-on-the-truth.html

[Archies Bat]

Here's some doom for you:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/technology/how-the-internet-is-loosening-our-grip-on-the-truth.html

Thanks.  I will no longer believe a thing I read on Scoop.

[mu_hilltopper]

You did before?

[mu_hilltopper]

Day before election doom:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources-us-intel-warning-of-possible-al-qaeda-attacks-in-us-monday/

[mu_hilltopper]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/17/the-north-pole-is-an-insane-36-degrees-warmer-than-normal-as-winter-descends/

[keefe]

One of the most f#cked up stories ever - man falls into acidic pool at Yellowstone and is dissolved as his sister films the event

http://www.kulr8.com/clip/12900165/man-killed-in-yellowstone-hot-spring-allegedly-trying-to-hot-pot

[mu_hilltopper]

That's more .. daily dose of dumb.

More:  https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin

[mu_hilltopper]

Democracy .. who needs it.  (Click the first link shown .. gets around NYT's paywall.)

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+www.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F11%2F29%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fwestern-liberal-democracy.html

[keefe]

Snakes in the sh1tter

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toilet-snake-south-africa_us_583f466ce4b0c68e047ea7e0

[Benny B]

Snakes in the sh1tter

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toilet-snake-south-africa_us_583f466ce4b0c68e047ea7e0

Can't really call that doom when it may be beneficial for some.... e.g. what better way to unstuck a clogged hamster in the piping than a snake?

[mu_hilltopper]

Well .. it was nice knowing some of you.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4002130/Will-world-END-month-Computer-programmer-claims-Jesus-return-destroy-planet-latest-bizarre-claim.html

[naginiF]

Well .. it was nice knowing some of you.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4002130/Will-world-END-month-Computer-programmer-claims-Jesus-return-destroy-planet-latest-bizarre-claim.html

I love how the person they use to debunk her claims is the "author of the UFO Investigations Manual".  'Dammit Bob, we don't have time to get at biblical scholar it's already December 7th.  Don't you have that UFO guy on speed dial?'

I'm also thinking 'Everlasting Righteousness' is a pretty solid name for a heavy metal band.

[mu_hilltopper]

Also, the doom you are living with?  Feel like it's getting harder to make it thru the day? 

It is.

https://www.afp.com/en/news/2265/earths-days-getting-longer-slower-study

[mu_hilltopper]

But, your lifespan is shorter, so you've got that going for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-declines-for-the-first-time-since-1993/2016/12/07/7dcdc7b4-bc93-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?utm_term=.4ed9d6ce6b4b

[warriorchick]

But, your lifespan is shorter, so you've got that going for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-declines-for-the-first-time-since-1993/2016/12/07/7dcdc7b4-bc93-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?utm_term=.4ed9d6ce6b4b

Not mine.       This due to the rise in obesity rates. 

[mu_hilltopper]

#fingerscrossed

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/nasa-scientist-earth-is-due-for-extinction-level-event.html