Which disaster concerns you the most?

[Capt.]

Apparently the maximum allowable number of choices is 10.

[spartan max2]

I surprised someone picked asteroid strike lol

[+and-then]

I think the economic collapse is the most imminent.

[Michelle]

Which disaster concerns me the most? Right now, none of the above....I'll deal with it one way or the other. *growls*

Getting old and being vulnerable scares me more than anything.

[seaturtlehorsesnake]

*adds in "godzilla" to available answers*

[Bavarian Raven]

I surprised someone picked asteroid strike lol

It is a justifiable fear. Even if/when we spot it coming, we might not be able to do anything about it. :/

[spartan max2]

It is a justifiable fear. Even if/when we spot it coming, we might not be able to do anything about it. :/

hmmm was it you who picked it by chance lol

[seaturtlehorsesnake]

it's a justifiable fear, but not, I think, a very helpful fear.

[Raptor Witness]

Alien attack .... because we have become alien to our Mother.

[Bavarian Raven]

hmmm was it you who picked it by chance lol

Nope. I picked plague :/

[Imaginarynumber1]

I miss read the title of this thread as which dinosaur concerns you the most and was gonna say trex, cause, well, it's a trex. I then saw the actual thread title and now I'm gonna go with zuniceritops.

[Big Jim]

I'm surprised no one chose nuclear war. That is the only choice on the list that can be initiated by one person, is immediately catastrophic, can occur without warning and is irreversible once it's begun.

[Sundew]

What worries me most is the lack of intelligence and statesmanship and the current economic, immigration and public health policies at the highest levels of government. At least if you are at ground zero when the asteroid hits or the nuke goes off, you'll never know what hit you.

"Iceberg dead-ahead, captain!"

[s33ker]

I'm going with Nuclear because........no one else did.

[spartan max2]

I'm surprised no one chose nuclear war. That is the only choice on the list that can be initiated by one person, is immediately catastrophic, can occur without warning and is irreversible once it's begun.

Cant really be initiated by one person.

And I think mutually assured destruction stops that from happening. Yes I know everyone hates that because its not poetic enough.

But it seemed to of stopped everyone from blowing each other up during the cold war so yeah. Im not worried about it.

[Big Jim]

Cant really be initiated by one person.

And I think mutually assured destruction stops that from happening. Yes I know everyone hates that because its not poetic enough.

But it seemed to of stopped everyone from blowing each other up during the cold war so yeah. Im not worried about it.

The one person I had in mind was Kim Jong Un. Dictatorships don't have the layers of security that we have in place. The threat of mutually assured destruction was a deterrent between rational governments who just happened to be enemies but it means nothing to the well armed insane or heaven-bound jihadists with a yard sale nuke.

[Doug1029]

In the next 100 years, a coronal mass ejection is the most-likely natural disaster. It won't exterminate us (probably), but it could vastly reduce our population and send us back to the dark ages.

In the long run, assuming no changes in business-as-usual, global warming eventually WILL get us, but it will likely take 300-500 years to do it. On the other hand, the world is starting to take it seriously, so business probably won't continue as usual. Now if somebody would just bump off the Koch Brothers (4111 East 9th, Wichita, NE).

Doug

P.S.: Nuclear war is still a serious risk; although, it now seems that an accidental nuclear war is more likely than an intentional one, terrorism aside.

Doug

Edited October 3, 2014 by Doug1029

[Doug1029]

We just had an earthquake (Oklahoma, 10/10/14, 8:50 a.m. CST). I'm guessing it was somewhere around a 5.0. These quakes aren't something that MIGHT happen. They're something that IS happening.

Doug

[Capt.]

To make a case for a plague:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/exclusive-controversial-us-scientist-creates-deadly-new-flu-strain-for-pandemic-research-9577088.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/pandemics/2012/12/spanish_flu_mystery_why_don_t_scientists_understand_the_1918_flu_even_after.html

In short we now have living samples of the disease with the highest death rate ever and then someone created a much worse flu.