Discussion: Strange Mass Animal Deaths!

[CelticPredator]

I blame....

THE GREYS.

 

[Scourge2099]

I saw this on the news this morning. What the hell is causing all of this ?

 

[craigdbfan]

Seagulls **** taking out the oxygen from the water apparently.

Thats the official word from a government funded biologist. So in other words a pretty trustworthy answer.

Nothing to worry about everything is ok in this planet of ours. Not.

 

[Scourge2099]

Seagulls **** taking out the oxygen from the water apparently.

Thats the official word from a government funded biologist. So in other words a pretty trustworthy answer.

Nothing to worry about everything is ok in this planet of ours. Not.

My mom actually believed that. I just stared at her for about 2 minutes and just walked away.

 

[craigdbfan]

It apparently eroded the breakwater which does happen, but that has no correlation whatsoever with over a billion fish dying. A lack of breakwater doesn't cause that many deaths.

Yeah its one of the most asinine explanations I've ever heard yet and as these events keep increasing in magnitude the excuses will get more ridiculous.

 

[Scourge2099]

I wonder what animals are going to turn up dead next ?

 

[craigdbfan]

People won't care until we hear: Millions of people drop dead.

Then they start panicking. Too little too late at that point.

 

[Scourge2099]

As soon as I heard about the cows and pilot whales dying , I started to get a little scared.

 

[Angel_Faerie]

I'm seriously getting freaked out about all this. I don't want the world to end! I don't want to die! There's still a ton of things I want to do! Aah!

 

[Scourge2099]

I kinda doubt whatever is killing off the animals will kill us. I'm hoping it won't anyway.

 

[craigdbfan]

Just keep your calm and make sure you're at peace with yourself and everyone around you.

Always keep positive even in times of doubt. Endure.

Nobody knows when **** will actually hit the fan. So just enjoy every minute you have and appreciate this beautiful planet you and I have had the honor of living in.

As much bad as there is, I've also encountered and experienced many good times as well. Those are the moments to cherish.

Sounds corny but its true.

 

[Angel_Faerie]

I'm extremely paranoid about the apocalypse. Have been since I was a kid. I actually got my first gray hairs from worrying about it when a bunch of people thought the world was going to end in August 2005 (I was 15). I've been roped in and freaked out by every one of the supposed apocalypses. Y2K, Mad Cow Disease, Bird Flu. I don't really believe 2012 but the back of my mind still is nervous that it might end up being true. I don't want the world to end in my lifetime. Or my childrens' lifetime (if I have any) or my grandchildrens' lifetime (if I have any). I'd be just fine if the world kept going for 2,000+ more years

 

[Scourge2099]

I used to believe in that stuff until I was 17. Then I realized that the people that come up with that s*** don't know what the f*** they are talking about. I have no idea what's causing these animals to die off in massive numbers , but I doubt it'll kill us.

 

[craigdbfan]

Worrying about something we have no control over is futile.

Thats why its best to enjoy every single minute. Thats not to say you should be reckless or blind yourself from certain events but you shouldn't worry yourself to the point of the stress you seemed to have gotten Angel.

Remaining optimistic is the best way to go.

 

[Scourge2099]

If most of humanity did die off , the sun would still rise and set.

 

[The Squirrel]

Unless it was the sun exploding that killed us.

 

[Scourge2099]

Humanity would die before that happened anyway. When suns go supernova they expand first , I think. We'd roast to death in a matter of seconds before it explodes.

 

[SuperFerret]

People won't care until we hear: Millions of people drop dead.

Then they start panicking. Too little too late at that point.

"Millions" = more than just one million, so at least two million.

Human population = roughly seven billion.

Death of "millions" = No big deal.

 

[Bat-Mite]

Just those New years fireworks nothing to worry about.

The biologist in that article blamed it on seagull droppings removing the oxygen causing a billion fish to die. Are you ****ing kidding me?

Must have been a lot of seagulls with diarrhea.

 

[SuperFerret]

It's possible that the droppings may have been a factor, but here's the thing: people would be on his ass just as much (if not more) if he merely said "I don't know". People expect scientists to have answers when they pretty much almost never do.

At any rate, none of this is a sign of anything other than people paying more attention to it. Animals die a lot, and that's part of a healthy ecosystem.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, the Ladder
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
in a fire, representing seven games, and a government
for hire at a combat site. Left of west and coming in
a hurry with the furys breathing down your neck. Team
by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing. Fine, then. Uh oh,
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do to Save
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
psyched.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

It's possible that the droppings may have been a factor, but here's the thing: people would be on his ass just as much (if not more) if he merely said "I don't know". People expect scientists to have answers when they pretty much almost never do.

At any rate, none of this is a sign of anything other than people paying more attention to it. Animals die a lot, and that's part of a healthy ecosystem.

THANK YOU.

It happened once, it got reported on and the media does it usual swarm to cover it every other time it happens. Once the media finds out about something they always cling onto it, whether it be children getting kidnapped, gay suicide, or mass animal deaths.

This isn't a sign of impending apocalypse at all people.

 

[craigdbfan]

Must have been a lot of seagulls with diarrhea.

Must of been.

Mexican food is one hell of a meal.

 

[craigdbfan]

It's possible that the droppings may have been a factor, but here's the thing: people would be on his ass just as much (if not more) if he merely said "I don't know". People expect scientists to have answers when they pretty much almost never do.

At any rate, none of this is a sign of anything other than people paying more attention to it. Animals die a lot, and that's part of a healthy ecosystem.

I love it. Humans we are the perfect invincible force of do good!

I'm not somehow abject to all scientist. Its just that the one biologist who did the analyzing of the Redondo situation gave an asinine reason. I live by a marina with breakwater, its been damaged severely before and we didn't have billions of fish die on our shores.

So obviously its some other reason. I would have preferred a "I don't know" honestly. Would have been more of an honest response anyway.

As for not worrying when it comes to mass animal deaths. Well there is a reason for concern and humans are directly tied to it. I hope people still understand that cause and effect is still a great part of existence period, thinking that it somehow doesn't apply to us is really fascinating to me.

Earth's creatures are on the brink of a sixth mass extinction, comparable to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. That's the conclusion of a new study, which calculates that three-quarters of today's animal species could vanish within 300 years.

"This is really gloom-and-doom stuff," says the study's lead author, paleobiologist Anthony Barnosky of the University of California at Berkeley. "But the good news is, we haven't come so far down the road that it's inevitable."

Species naturally come and go over long periods of time. But what sets a mass extinction apart is that three-quarters of all species vanish quickly. Earth has already endured five such events, including one that wiped out dinosaurs and many other creatures 65 million years ago. Conservationists have warned for years that the world is in the midst of a sixth, human-caused extinction, with species from frogs to birds to tigers threatened by climate change, disease, loss of habitat and competition for resources with nonnative species.

- The Washington Post

Mass extinctions will always be a part of Earth and thats just the way it is. Its happened five times before and luckily the planet has us to bring it quicker than those silly dinosaurs ever could. Nice try T-Rex.

THANK YOU.

It happened once, it got reported on and the media does it usual swarm to cover it every other time it happens. Once the media finds out about something they always cling onto it, whether it be children getting kidnapped, gay suicide, or mass animal deaths.

This isn't a sign of impending apocalypse at all people.

Not to be an ******* but those don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. The last one is far more important while the others is strictly sensationalizing human actions that have happened since the dawn of man.

Thats not to say that massive animal deaths haven't happen before because they have. Its the rate at which its happening which is the alarming part, not that fact that it happens as thats to be expected. Comprende?

 

[SuperFerret]

I love it. Humans we are the perfect invincible force of do good!

Where did I say this?

I'm not somehow abject to all scientist. Its just that the one biologist who did the analyzing of the Redondo situation gave an asinine reason. I live by a marina with breakwater, its been damaged severely before and we didn't have billions of fish die on our shores.

So obviously its some other reason. I would have preferred a "I don't know" honestly. Would have been more of an honest response anyway.

"I don't know" would have been a more honest response, and while you and I may have the brain cells to process that logically, thanks to the media, it'd be interpreted as either "scientists don't know what they're doing", "they're not even trying", or "they're hiding something". The breakwater response is (1) a potential PART of the problem, and (2) an easy enough explanation to appease the 1/4th of the population that's ******ed.

As for not worrying when it comes to mass animal deaths. Well there is a reason for concern and humans are directly tied to it. I hope people still understand that cause and effect is still a great part of existence period, thinking that it somehow doesn't apply to us is really fascinating to me.

Who said it doesn't apply to us? Who said that humans aren't causing these things? Sometimes I wonder if people read my posts.

Mass extinctions will always be a part of Earth and thats just the way it is. Its happened five times before and luckily the planet has us to bring it quicker than those silly dinosaurs ever could. Nice try T-Rex.

Considering that we don't know if or how behaviour affected the causality in the previous mass extinctions, there's nothing suggesting that Homo sapiens is moving things along quicker or not.

Not to be an ******* but those don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. The last one is far more important while the others is strictly sensationalizing human actions that have happened since the dawn of man.

Thats not to say that massive animal deaths haven't happen before because they have. Its the rate at which its happening which is the alarming part, not that fact that it happens as thats to be expected. Comprende?

Mass extinctions don't really matter in the "grand scheme of things" either. As you've said yourself, at least FIVE mass extinctions have occurred on this planet, and guess what? More will occur, and life will still be like Celene Dion's heart.

Capiche?