How will the world end?

whimper

No "whimper" option?

fuck i didn't transcribe it correctly. mods?

can't post-edit poll options, we can either read it as intended or you have to create a new poll

yeah just read it as "whimper".

i am tempted to say whimper as well, although i do fear the possibility of the future use of nuclear weapons.

even in that kind of mass extinction event i wd imagine enough survivors to ensure a protracted end game. i'm sure the dinosaurs didn't all keel over in the same minute.

Wish a Wispa.

dammit i knew i shd've bought chocolate when i went to Tesco

Robert Frost held with those who favor fire, but also thought that ice would suffice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pa34orcwwA

We've got to try to enjoy ourselves while we're here.

Brooklyn's not expanding!

With ilm claiming that the krakatoan eruption, while less devastatingly destructive at the time, was clearly superois in every other way

superior, fuckin phone brakes hart

culturally i think brooklyn is still expanding. the alt magazine i read in a cab in singapore was basically pitchfork. most of their "top albums" for 2012 were american things pitchfork hyped and wavves was on the cover of the magazine. also i saw a t-shirt that just said "williamsburg" on it and had a picture of the brooklyn bridge, which indicates that williamsburg is expanding into other areas of brooklyn.

Recently read a good book about previous mass extinction events. We are currently in the 6th big one and there isn't shit we can do about it. I love the idea that when the atlantic and pacific oceans become mostly anoxic and home only to bacteria that this planet of death will become a sickly pink colour rather than blue. My own theory is that the insects will take over and slowly evolve back to the size they were 300 million years ago, give or take the odd bolide, super-volcano or additional climate change disaster that might affect them. But how boring is life without creatures that can think, express themselves and invent shit? But i suppose that ability to jump to the top of the food chain comes with a self destruction clause.

iirc algae might have nixed tge supposed anoxidisation of the oceans but who know sure

Also insects, given 300 million years, may well develop to our level of technical achievement, cultural refinement and social deravity

isn't that what Bee Movie is about? i didn't see it.

w/ a bong

Whatever cunt invented this android keyboard cant be any fuckin better than a giant grasshopper with a fuckin screwdriver tbfh

darragh, have you tried swiftkey? might suit better.

a thousanings on you ill try it at once bless

i think you might need to invest in some google glasses in order to get the most out of your android

ice is nice

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what a disaster for TS Eliot

not with a bang, but a hey how ya doin lil mama lemme whisper in ya ear

with a smang

ice is nice.

Is that Ice Nine ?

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When we're gone the racoons will take over. Hell we'll probably be at war with the racoons within a couple hundred years, and they have built-in bioweapons.

http://www.amazon.com/The-World-Without-Alan-Weisman/dp/0312427905/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1377908740&sr=8-3&keywords=life+after+humans

i've wanted to read this but haven't gotten around to it. i'd much rather racoons become the new dominant species than cockroaches tbh. horses have paid their dues, i feel, so my top choice for a post-apocalyptic world would be a Houyhnhnm utopia

The Weisman book is good. I also liked the similarly titled The Earth After Us: What legacy will humans leave in the rocks for the likely disposition of human artifacts after 100 million years of geology.

that seems really interesting, thanks. i find this kind of speculation strangely comforting. maybe it's easier to contemplate human history as past, as something that is over, rather than something that is continuing hurtling toward an uncertain, and so frighteningly unfamiliar, future. this, fwiw, is precisely the kind of thinking walter benjamin says we should exorcise from our minds in his theses on history. mankind's only hope, he claims, unless people start to think of history as something that hasn't even begun yet, which is a notion i find to be moving.

sorry for all of the grammatical errors in the above comment.

I love books like these. Another good one is Tony Hallam's Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities. Most of it is just pooling together geological evidence from previous extinction events broken up into chapters on bolide impacts, sea level changes, ocean anoxia, climate changes and volcanic activities. It is a good read because he is sceptical of any suppositions or bad science. I will be checking out the Weisman and Zalasiewicz books for sure.

ssssshhhhh!!!

sssssshhhhh!!!

WOW! BAM!!

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

nice! this one seems relevant too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2JVJQuYvms

<3 bjork so much. i hope NASA beams her music into space for aliens to find or whatever the process is for preserving traces of human culture eternally in the universe.

Fine w world ending by Bjork's whisper.

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a bang to us is but a whisper to the universe

Exactly what the world needs now!

Scientists turn mild-mannered mice into killers

Well done, science!