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  • #16
    A deathstar...
    Speaking of Erith:

    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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    • #17
      Ming!!
      'The very basis of the liberal idea – the belief of individual freedom is what causes the chaos' - William Kristol, son of the founder of neo-conservitivism, talking about neo-con ideology and its agenda for you.info here. prove me wrong.

      Bush's Republican=Neo-con for all intent and purpose. be afraid.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Zkribbler
        (a) a really nasty mutated virus.
        To be more specific a virus or bacteria which has

        a) a high rate of mutation
        b) a long phase of latency where the vistim doesn´t detect any symptomes but is able to infect other persons
        c) is transmitted by any bodyfluid, be it sweat, urine, sperm, blood or saliva
        d) after the phase of latency would kill the victims by showing the symptomes of another disease (for example the symptomes of a pneumonia or, much better, the symptomes of a sudden heart attack )

        would be fine to do the job
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        • #19
          A prehistoric monster with laser beam eyes suddenly awaking from its hibernation at the bottom of the sea!

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          • #20
            But I heard the US has enough of Bio andn Chem weapons to kill everyone on the planet 15 or so times over...
            To be fair we're currently dismantling a lot of them.
            meet the new boss, same as the old boss

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            • #21
              Originally posted by mrmitchell

              To be fair we're currently dismantling a lot of them.
              Yeah, I'm sure that 5 times is more than enough
              Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
              And notifying the next of kin
              Once again...

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              • #22
                Re: What would it take to exterminate mankind?

                Looking for something to do during downtime at work, Lancer?

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                • #23
                  Daleks
                  Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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                  • #24
                    evolution ...
                    "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Frankychan

                      But I heard the US has enough of Bio andn Chem weapons to kill everyone on the planet 15 or so times over...
                      Which is an utter load of crap.

                      What these guys do is figure out how many people would be killed by a certain amount of these subtances under perfect conditions (for chemical weapons, bright but not too sunny, clear, little if any wind, low humidity, NO precipitation of course) would kill, then they measure out the total of the stuff we have and make such predictions.

                      In fact, given the fact weather throughout the world is a bit less cooperative, and of course one has to figure out how to deploy and release the weapons globally, those predictions are utter scare mongering.

                      I agree that save fopr the hypothetical nano- plague, nothing here mentioned would do it.

                      Humans have one up over most dinasours- we are omnivorous, like many of the creatures that survived the Asteroid hit, like our ancestor mammals, plsu we have such things as canned food, meaning with good planning enough food stores to keep a significant population alive could be stored to feed people even as plant life worldwide died off.

                      The Sun going Nova, now that would definitelly do it.
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                      • #26
                        Bleh. None of the things described here would be able to wipe out mankind. Soon we'll be moving to other planets and solar systems, and then it doesn't matter if old Earth can still support life or not.

                        And when our new world is completely depleted as well, we'll move to another one and so on...

                        Mankind is the cancer of the universe.
                        I watched you fall. I think I pushed.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Alex
                          Bleh. None of the things described here would be able to wipe out mankind. Soon we'll be moving to other planets and solar systems, and then it doesn't matter if old Earth can still support life or not.
                          .
                          Soon?

                          You mean like in 500 years maybe to Mars?

                          I doubt that by the year 3000 human beings will have any settlements worth the name outside the Solar System.
                          If you don't like reality, change it! me
                          "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
                          "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
                          "Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw

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                          • #28
                            Re: What would it take to exterminate mankind?

                            Originally posted by Lancer
                            With all the bomb shelters all over the place left over from the cold war, I'd say the infestation would be difficult to eliminate. A show on dinosaurs I watched some time back said that after 2 years the air had cleared pretty much, but all the dinosaurs were dead by then. That couldn't happen to people as canned food can last alot longer than that. The population might be reduced to a million people or something, but I think we would survive such an event. What about Yellowstone blowing up? Full on nuke war? What would it take?
                            A full-throttle Yellowstone explosion might not entirely wipe us out, but could well reduce our population to levels where subsequent inbreeding would leave us subtly different as a species. Whether we'd still be "human" would be a moot point.
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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by GePap

                              I doubt that by the year 3000 human beings will have any settlements worth the name outside the Solar System.
                              Or even within the solar system.
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                              • #30
                                Re: What would it take to exterminate mankind?

                                I'm not sure, but this guy would know...

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