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[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

I hate the pseudoscienctist Graham Hancock.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Fun fact, he predicted (it was a couched prediction, but a prediction) that the world would end in 2012. He wants people to forget that.

See the last paragraph here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-writer-who-found-supermen-in-antarctica-1593897.html

[-] alexc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Oh, come on. He’s hilarious to watch so you can play bullshit bingo

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

My house rules mean you drink when he's wrong. We all have alcohol poisoning in thr first 10 minutes.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

It IS true! The Earth WILL pass in front of the same Taurid meteor stream in 2032!

In fact, the Earth WILL pass in front of the same Taurid meteor stream in 2031! And 2030, and '29, '28, '27, '26, '25 and '24!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

That's way too many times for civilization to collapse. Can we skip a year?

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Just for that suggestion, we are adding 2025-2.

[-] xwolpertinger@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

We should have listened to the warning delivered by the elder Millennials

Those Göbekli Tepi vultures play a mean game of basketball, they are our only hope for SpaceAirJamBud 3

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

Everyone should listen to Aldi-brand Bill Maher.

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Sigh if only this guy was not a deluded person and meteors did end humanity. We deserve it so much.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Ok, say that this is true, what should we do to prevent it?

Because I can't see humanity surviving an ice age of 1300 years.

Even if we find shelter, what would we eat?

I can't see any way out of a scenario like this, and since if this is true it is a true inevitabillity we have zero reason to panic since it won't help.

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

I can't see humanity surviving an ice age of 1300 years

Again, you mean?

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

That is a fair point, and I should clarify what I mean.

There are two options of how to interpret the the doomsayer.

  1. Global ice cover, which is how I initially interpreted it as meaning, then we are truly gone.

  2. Partial Ice cover, here we can interpret "we" as the current civilization, that will be gone.

I did not consider scenario 2 as much as I should have, but since the author didn't specify closer, I jumped to scenario 1 and worked from there

[-] DarkenLM@kbin.earth 6 points 1 month ago

Either we start building Generators and elect a Captain a la Frostpunk, or we all die.

As for me, the work won't complete itself, and those people sure as fuck ain't doing theirs.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 month ago

Generators?

Seriously?

If this is accurate, it is way, way, way too late for that.

Also how long to you believe the fuel would last?

The only somewhat reliable energy I could see powering an underground bunker for 1300 years of ice age is geothermal, but that would only save a tiny fraction of people untill the food runs out.

If this scenario is comming, we are gone, there are no ifs or buts about it.

Preparation is irrelevant: We. Are. Gone.

We have no resources to save enough people to keep going.

1300 years, let me put that into perspective:

1300 years ago was the year 724 AD, a time eighty years before the Viking age, it was during the 700s that the Mayan civilization started to decline, that is how much time we are talking about.

Generators or Frostpunk Prime Generals won't matter.

We are gone.

If this happens.

[-] DarkenLM@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

It's a joke, lad. It's not that deep.

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