Prophets of Doom

[Scytail]

Anyone else catch Prophets of Doom on the History channel (9pm-11pm est)?

Here's how I see it cooking off

1. Oil runs out
2. Global markets collapse
3. Terrorist seeing America is weak sneak in and set off nuclear bombs in major cities
4. Food/Water shortages cripple the world and whats left of America

AI killing us is a nice scifi ending but doubtful its our major concern for the near future.

Ideas? Opinions?

 

[flim.geek.chic]

as depressing as it is I'm sure thats how it'll go down. Probably in a few generations.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

And by the time that we've recovered, somewhere will have developed new energy sources, unreliant on oil. And no, I didn't watch the show. I just think that alternate energy has a good chance of coming through. Maybe even prevent step 2 (If I'm being optimistic.)

 

[Roamin11]

as depressing as it is I'm sure thats how it'll go down. Probably in a few generations.

Cheer up, you'll be dead... Oh wait >.<

OT: We do sumthin that just ruins the air and it becomes unbreathable, or whatever, just that we will be choking on polution.

 

[altobizzaro]

fallout 4?

 

[flim.geek.chic]

as depressing as it is I'm sure thats how it'll go down. Probably in a few generations.

Cheer up, you'll be dead... Oh wait >.<

LOL How do you know I could be a vampire. Not the sparkly kind though... F**k those guys.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I notice how this is pretty America-centric.
There is some slight consideration for the rest of the world but FUCK THOSE GUYS, the important thing here is good old Eagleland.

Every generation thinks it will be the last. We're all so fucking obsessed with how IMPORTANT we are, and the only way to be more important than being the start of civilisation is to be the end of it.
Honestly? We'll probably be around so long we just fucking taper off over time. Two people left in the entire world like "hey so where'd everybody go". And then they both die.
Then, long after we're gone, the sun will blow up. And the Earth will be doing just fucking dandy directly beforehand because we were fleas on the back of this millennium old creature. It is arrogant to even assume we are anything more. Just look at what it has survived so far.

Which isn't to say go fucking nuts, the planet will be fine even with everyone being irresponsible jackasses. Just that we are hardly going to cause the end of the world, and it is unlikely we will even be around to see it.

Boy this vodka is hitting me hard.

 

[Lord Legion]

I just hope it is some sort of exciting way to die...not this nuclear winter starvation, or humanity losing all its technology and reverting back to medieval times. That stuff is boring.

I'll take aliens rounding everyone up any day. Something like the Combine...I'd sign up willingly, traveling around the universe even as a work drone wouldn't be too bad compared to the utter bland delivered in most other scenarios. Who knows, someone might even be able to work themselves up the ladder.

 

[Roamin11]

as depressing as it is I'm sure thats how it'll go down. Probably in a few generations.

Cheer up, you'll be dead... Oh wait >.<

LOL How do you know I could be a vampire. Not the sparkly kind though... F**k those guys.

Then just keep lots of sunscreen and you will out live me... Or you can infect me.... Please?

 

[Julianking93]

Why the fuck does the History Channel have to be so goddamn depressing?

 

[flim.geek.chic]

@Roamin 11
*giggle* Okay but you have to master the secret handshake first

 

[Julianking93]

*Holds out pictures of Swastikas and hitler infront of a UFO* Would you rather have them go back to talking endlessly about Nazis, ancient aliens and... Nazi Aliens?

Yes. I would :3

At least that was an informative type of depressing. This isn't informative. Just bullshit theories and conspiracies.

I'm tired of my grandmother constantly talking about 2012 and the alien apocalypse or how JFK was shot by an angry panda 3 towns over. She watches that shit way too much.

 

[Berethond]

*Holds out pictures of Swastikas and hitler infront of a UFO* Would you rather have them go back to talking endlessly about Nazis, ancient aliens and... Nazi Aliens?

Yes. I would :3

At least that was an informative type of depressing. This isn't informative. Just bullshit theories and conspiracies.

I'm tired of my grandmother constantly talking about 2012 and the alien apocalypse or how JFK was shot by an angry panda 3 towns over. She watches that shit way too much.

Make her watch the military channel instead. All they show is Americans killing Germans.

 

[Roamin11]

@Roamin 11
*giggle* Okay but you have to master the secret handshake first

You got a deal!

 

[Neverhoodian]

Shouldn't the History Channel cover, you know, HISTORY?!

If they're so keen on these doomsday prophesy shows, they should create a channel dedicated to that.

 

[Julianking93]

Make her watch the military channel instead. All they show is Americans killing Germans.

There's a military channel too?

Don't get her started on Germans though... despite her German decent >>

 

[countrysteaksauce]

Why the fuck does the History Channel have to be so goddamn depressing?

*Holds out pictures of Swastikas and hitler infront of a UFO* Would you rather have them go back to talking endlessly about Nazis, ancient aliens and... Nazi Aliens?

I lol'd.

OT: Sometimes I wonder why it's even called the History Channel. Half the shows have to do with Alaskan truckers, lumberjacks, and the future. I'll let it slide with Pawn Stars and American Pickers though. As a side note, Chum Lee - Total idiot or genius well-paid actor that brings in the ratings?

 

[Death God]

I'm sticking to my guns and saying asteroid is going to hit us. It just seems to logical for some reason. That or the our sun will blink out and take our galaxy with it. A big fiery end as predicted in the bible.

 

[Ebolei]

absolute fear mongering, i watched this show and was shocked on how the History Channel would be so deceitful and so biased to scare the shit out of ignorant people to improve their ratings and increase ad revenue.

I especially loved the part where the quoted Obama's opening statements at the Nuclear Security Summit adressing the dangers and seriousness about Nuclear Conflicts but failed to let him continue to talk about what they're doing to fix it, and what their plans are to continue fixing it.

Its like looking at a spectrum of -100 to (positive)100 and only showing your audience from -100 to -90. Uneducated people, let alone extreme intellectuals lack the power to make an educated opinion/belief on a subject when they are shown ONLY the EXTREMES of one aspect of something.

So in conclusion it's absolute garbage and pure propaganda to play off of fear, a negative energy, a low conscious level. But hey, maybe this will scare some twat into donating 10 bucks into water aid in africa so good for them.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Greed will save us all. How?

The Oil economy is based entirely on greed (Or so I'm told. That whole energy to weight efficiency ratio thing is probably horse crap). So there are a bunch of greedy bastards soaking up money.

And then BAM oil is gone and the planet over heats (You know, like they said it was going to do in the 80s). The world is dieing and oil is not making any more money. You know what happens?

The Greedy Bastards who have no more oil,. but ridiculously large amounts of money, suddenly become greedy for LIFE. They poor money into alternative energy. The world is saved by greed.

50 years later, everyone will be complaining about how the rich, greedy bastards who own all the solar panels, and they'll all wish there was something they could dig out of the ground so they could stop buying energy from those bastards.