Monday, July 24, 2006

Competitive Depression Pt. 1- Doomsday Scenarios


Sorry guys. Even the tube worms must go.


The alert reader may have noticed that the world is in a terrible state. Even a cursory review of the daily news is enough to trigger any number of latent emotional disorders- these are interesting times.
Not good, just interesting.
Fascinating , disturbing and depressing.
Interesting.

I think that we should wait until the next giant meteor or Gamma Ray Burst
wipes out all the life on Earth; until that happens we should try not to destroy the planet , ourselves and each other- but noo....it's all war, bombs, disaster...all the time. I can barely keep myself from self-destructing, much less save the world.

So, if the powers that be must destroy the world, please let them make it as quick and painless as possible, because the idea of a long, drawn-out East-West WWIII followed by Apocalypse- ( natural, man-made or divine) - depresses the hell out of me.

So I have a plan.
Instead of an East vs. West conflict based on religious insanity, why not just shift the war to North vs. South and base it in on some other sort of insanity- one not involving religion- let's base our doomsday on equatorial physics.
I'm sure you have heard how water in a swirling drain will circle in one direction in the Northern Hemisphere and in the opposite direction in the Southern- this makes everyone who lives South of the equator different from everyone who lives to the North.

Clockwise or counter-clockwise flushing?
Certainly that is an irreconcilable difference worth dying for.

Why not fight about it?
It makes more sense than killing in the name of god.

We can take all the nuclear weapons on the planet and divide them between North and South.
The bombs will then be moved to their respective owner's Pole , buried in the ice caps and detonated.

This will cover the planet with a roiling cloud of radioactive steam- and generate two enormous waves- one heading North and one heading South. If timed precisely, these waves can meet at the equator and finish WWIII forever.

The only witnesses will be a handful of astronauts on the ISS.
Imagine watching the world go BOOM! from outer space.
You'd probably be too busy fighting with the guy from the Other Side over the last oxygen tank to notice that nobody won the last war.

Clockwise or counter-clockwise. Let's fight about that.

Why not?




2 comments:

Sling said...

That's what I'm talking about right there!..and have you noticed how them Southern hemispherians have Winter in June??..Damm suspicious if you ask me.

Allan said...

The Biggest End Ever!