"Is It Thunderdome Yet?" A Rolling Looming Apocalypse Thread

after the apocalypse: lots of guys starving to death with piles of gold.

The newspapers really piss me off right now. They love this situation, because they can go around scaremongering to sell papers.
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/gallery/2006/11/03/eliotcarver1.jpg
There's no news like bad news

what to buy if there was a coming financial collapse
http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/disaster-shopping-with-gupta-1003

beef jerky and hand sanitizer, yup, got it.

This "survival list" bullshit is basically all the same stuff as those "what to do when the Y2K bug ends civilisation" lists from nine years ago. All the tinned beans people bought back then should probably still be buried in the back yard.

"I planted five rows of tinned beans and NOTHING came up. :("

I love how these lists for surviving a couple weeks of civil disruption are longer and include more extraneous crap than most people would take on a two-week camping trip, which itself is usually way more than they ever need.

Hand jerky and beef sanitiser would be about as much.

hur hur hur... "Mysterious Ways" just came on in WinAmp... "you've been living underground, eating from a can"

Hand jerky and beef sanitiser would be about as much use (fu-huck...)

after shit gets heavy we'll all starve in a month and there will only be mormons left

today i was sitting between two girls and they were having a conversation over me. both were listening to ipods at the same time and kept saying "what?" to each other.

my disgust made me feel 50 yrs old

hey look guys here is a magazine article that pertains to my interests

http://men.style.com/details/features/full?id=content_7476

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081031/D945EQT80.html

http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/wp-content/uploads/robocop3_poster.jpg

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Guys I didn't read this thread I just want to let you all know that I am - quite seriously - working on a musical based on Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome called THUNDERDOME.

SNEAK PEEK SNEAK PEEK

I hear Tina is going to sing "We Don't Need Another Hero" @ inaugural

New Yorker has Indian slums followed by Robotic Warfare. I will sleep great now.

india piece is really good btw

ENCLAVE by Kit Reed — The world is in chaos: war, plague, global ecological collapse. Parents everywhere seek sanctuary for their precious children, the future of mankind. For those who are rich and powerful enough, safety can be found — for a price — at the Clothos Academy. Run by a mysterious man known only as Sarge, set in a former monastery atop a sheer cliff on a tiny island somewhere in the Mediterranean, Clothos will admit only 100 students before it is sealed off — perhaps permanently — from the terrors outside.

Choose your own Apocalypse!

I went with Unilateralism, Megadrought, Bureaucracy, Default On Debt, and Laziness

As a result, I'm "a humanitarian internationalist. You're convinced mankind will terminate America—but at least we won't off ourselves in the process. You'll know you're right when: Everyone on Earth pledges allegiance to a world government; the feds default on the national debt."

Suicidal Tyrant + India/Pakistan + Isolation of Elites + Overpopulation + Ocean Acidification =

You are a bloodthirsty misanthrope. You believe mankind is stupid and fallible and that America will destroy itself in a bloody mess. You'll know you're right when: The United States succumbs to a torrent of Russian nukes; we clone ourselves, get bum genes, and die.

Wow, you can use this thing to come up with a zillion movie plots!

I went with: Suburban Slums, Oldocracy, Megadrought, State Bankruptcies and Neo-Colonialism

Ice Age + Super AIDS + The Rapture + Asteroids + Ocean Acidification =

You are a Gaia-hating doomsayer. You're sure the natural world will destroy us, and there's nothing we can do about it. You'll know you're right when: America gets crushed by an asteroid; a new ice age buries us under a glacier.

I'm really into the idea of making movie plots out of these choose your own apocalypse scenarios. If I made a thread for this, would it be good or would it languish, unloved?

I'm really into the idea of making movie plots out of these choose your own apocalypse scenarios. If I made a thread for this, would it be good or would it languish, unloved?

Do it: Character names provided by this thread: The simple joy of stupid spam names

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100921/ts_csm/327178

That slate list missed one of my favorite megadisaster scenarios, the collapse of the western flank of Cumbre Vieja volcano on Las Palmas (Canary islands) along the 20km fault that appeared during the 1947 eruption:

http://www.tsunami-alarm-system.com/uploads/pics/la_palma_erdrutsch_tsunami_01.jpg

More likely, though, is something like the centuries long collapse seen on Rapa Nui.

holy shit xp

watching a marathon of THE COLONY on discovery

scratchin all my end-of-the-world itches

I'd never heard of this, now I find myself wanting to torrent and watch a "reality" show for the first time in my life.

yeah i heard of it for the first time today and watched the entire first season ~on demand~

Between the Mexican cartels' building tanks, Colombian drug smugglers making homemade submarines, and the gonzo mechanic genius of Libya's rebels, is it possible that the world predicted in Mad Max has actually come to pass and no one noticed?

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/10/el_monstruo_the_cartels_have_a_tank

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jqTdAd3hBRw

y didnt the video embed :(

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QUE PEDO, QUE ES ESTO

 ni Batman hace estas mamadas

chicharito12531 8 months ago 15

WHAT FARTING, WHAT IS THIS

batman doesn't need this sucky shit

In a post titled, "This Really Is Beginning To Look Like 1931," Knowles argues that we could be witnessing the transition from recession to global depression that last occurred two years after the 1929 market collapse, and eight years before Germany invaded Poland, triggering the Second World War:

"The difference today is that so far, the chain reaction of a default has been avoided by bailouts. Countries are not closing down their borders or arming their soldiers – they can agree on some solution, if not a good solution. But the fundamental problem – the spiral downwards caused by confidence crises and ever rising interest rates – is exactly the same now as it was in 1931. And as Italy and Spain come under attack, we are reaching the limit of how much that sticking plaster can heal. Tensions between European countries unseen in decades are emerging."

Knowles wrote that posts three days ago. Since then it has become abundantly obvious that Europe will soon become unwilling or unable to continue bailing out every country with a debt problem. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy continues to chug along, to the extent it is chugging at all, on the false security offered by a collective distaste for one ratings agency and its poor mathematics.
That can't continue forever. The next few months will show S&P's downgrade to have been too little and too late, rather than too drastic and too soon. The Eurozone will fall apart. The American political crisis will will only worsen; the "super-committee" will utterly fail, true to design. Soon enough, we may all wake up to a "reckoning" truly deserving of the name.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/serious-people-are-starting-to-realize-that-we-may-be-looking-at-world-war-iii-2011-8#ixzz1USnBjr1F

this whole event falls into the thread category, insane freak storm in August:

Belgium's Pukkelpop festival on hold at the moment - short storm during first day, 1 of the stages collapsed, 1 dead, 7 seriously injured

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY&feature=player_embedded

^^ Quite likely this was chosen as the most entertaining and impressive of a large number of trials. But it was certainly entertaining and impressive.

Yeah, pretty awesome.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/11/07/super-typhoon-haiyan-closes-in-on-philippines-among-strongest-storms-ever/?hpid=z5

"The Joint Typhoon Warning Center estimates maximum sustained winds are 190 mph."

nb: sustained winds, not just wind gusts

was just coming here to post that.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2013/11/650x366_11071317_page.htm_.jpg

I thought of you when I saw the article, ZS

i mean coming here to post about Haiyan. i'm not sure about the gusts vs. sustained wind. one part of the link mentions 190 mph "max sustained winds", another mentions 190 mph "max winds", and another says "Close to the storm center, sustained winds will exceed 100 mph with gusts over 150 mph possible"

at any rate, people with wigs should apply extra krazy glue tomorrow

it's so sad that the story is currently buried on the WashPo front page beneath such important columns as George Will's "Obama’s feast of failures - Cash for Clunkers foreshadowed the HealthCare.gov fiasco"

Srsly, winds like that can make very heavy objects fly. Until they hit something.

shame that the potential damage is so horrible--this photo is quite beautiful

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2013/11/1401869_676143355737038_348445040_o1.jpg

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/08/typhoon-haiyan-philippines-death-toll

195mph is fucking insane