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The universe is violent
Aug. 30th, 2006 08:52 pmLast Days on Earth. A "20/20" news special. One of the coolest fucking shows ever made. I am SO enjoying this. If you're missing it, it's about the seven (or eight?) most likely ways for the world to end. They've computer animated what it would be like for the world to be destroyed by a black hole, supervolcano, asteroid, etc. This is the only way I'll ever be able to see something like this, because if it really happened, I'd be too dead to see it. Or there'd be no tv cameras to tape it for me because they'd be obliterated by whatever the destroying thing was before they could get a good shot. I want a copy of this special! It's so cool.
Of course, I don't want any of these things to actually happen because they wouldn't be fun, and there's almost no way to survive them or even stop most of them. But it's fun to watch when it isn't really happening. Now, where will alien invasion be on the list? ;)
I really hope some of this shit never happens, because I can just imagine how fucked up the human reaction would be. It'd be every fucking man for himself. I'd simply starve to death, because bigger people with a stronger tendency toward self-preservation would just sweep my short little ass aside. I would rather be dead than intentionally harm other people in order to save my own ass. Maybe I'm being cynical about man's capacity to band together, but haven't we had some very scary examples of how society can fall apart in the face of disaster?
I got the funniest damn call at work today. The woman said she needed to take Grey Dawg because they no longer allow people to wear prosthetics on airplanes, since you could put a bomb in it or something, I guess. She had had a double mastectomy and had prosthetic breasts (I am NOT kidding). And she was "not getting on that plane without [her] boobs" (her exact words). I totally cracked up! I didn't expect to hear that today. XD Oh lordy.
Of course, I don't want any of these things to actually happen because they wouldn't be fun, and there's almost no way to survive them or even stop most of them. But it's fun to watch when it isn't really happening. Now, where will alien invasion be on the list? ;)
I really hope some of this shit never happens, because I can just imagine how fucked up the human reaction would be. It'd be every fucking man for himself. I'd simply starve to death, because bigger people with a stronger tendency toward self-preservation would just sweep my short little ass aside. I would rather be dead than intentionally harm other people in order to save my own ass. Maybe I'm being cynical about man's capacity to band together, but haven't we had some very scary examples of how society can fall apart in the face of disaster?
I got the funniest damn call at work today. The woman said she needed to take Grey Dawg because they no longer allow people to wear prosthetics on airplanes, since you could put a bomb in it or something, I guess. She had had a double mastectomy and had prosthetic breasts (I am NOT kidding). And she was "not getting on that plane without [her] boobs" (her exact words). I totally cracked up! I didn't expect to hear that today. XD Oh lordy.
