Top 10 US Possible Natural Disasters

[Electrix]

I suppose they'd all make good films..

 

[D.Rex]

We would go to terror alert red. That's the response to any problem raise the terror alert.

Where's bird-flu? I thought that was supposed to kill us all very soon.

Are people actually still worried about that. I thought that went the way of SARS. (Meaning it vanished and was never heard from again). Next year there will be a new pandemic virus that is going to supposedly kill half the world.

 

[Bat Attack]

What about swamp gas? Shouldn't we all be worrying about swamp gas. I worry about swamp gas. Swamp gas and Rosie O'Donnells ass becoming so large it overtakes the earth.

 

[bored]

Rosie O'Donnell will collapse into herself, like a dying star.

 

[Electrix]

Global Warming? Climate Change?

 

[U.S War Machine]

I'm guessing a f-6 tornado down here in oklahoma

 

[Edd Extraordinaire]

#11. The Cutting Crew

 

[Emrys]

Is really no one interested in finding out what grey /green goo is ?

 

[Bat Attack]

Rosie O'Donnell will collapse into herself, like a dying star.

I am in tears right now (from laughter) after reading that, lol!

 

[Bat Attack]

Is really no one interested in finding out what grey /green goo is ?

rob reiner if full of green goo, didn't you see that episode of south park?

 

[Emrys]

rob reiner if full of green goo, didn't you see that episode of south park?

Uhmmm no, I didn't

 

[Bat Attack]

"My goo, my precious green gooo!"

 

[Edd Extraordinaire]

rob reiner if full of green goo, didn't you see that episode of south park?

OHHH MY PRECIOUS GOOOOO!

 

[Emrys]

Grey goo refers to a hypothetical end-of-the-world event involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all living matter on Earth while building more of themselves (a scenario known as ecophagy).
The term is usually used in a science fiction context. In a worst-case scenario, all of the matter in the universe could be turned into goo (with "goo" meaning a large mass of replicating nanomachines lacking large-scale structure, which may or may not actually appear goo-like), killing the universe's residents. The disaster is posited to result from an accidental mutation in a self-replicating nanomachine used for other purposes, or possibly from a deliberate doomsday device.

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Definition of grey goo

The term was first used by molecular nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler in his book Engines of Creation (1986). In Chapter 4, Engines Of Abundance, Drexler explores a scary scenario of exponential growth with such assemblers:
"Thus the first replicator assembles a copy in one thousand seconds, the two replicators then build two more in the next thousand seconds, the four build another four, and the eight build another eight. At the end of ten hours, there are not thirty-six new replicators, but over 68 billion. In less than a day, they would weigh a ton; in less than two days, they would outweigh the Earth; in another four hours, they would exceed the mass of the Sun and all the planets combined - if the bottle of chemicals hadn't run dry long before." Drexler describes grey goo in Chapter 11 Engines Of Destruction:
"...early assembler-based replicators could beat the most advanced modern organisms. "Plants" with "leaves" no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough, omnivorous "bacteria" could out-compete real bacteria: they could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days. Dangerous replicators could easily be too tough, small, and rapidly spreading to stop - at least if we made no preparation. We have trouble enough controlling viruses and fruit flies." It is thus worth noting that grey goo need not be grey or gooey. They could be like, for all purposes, a plant or bacteria. It is only the result of their ecophagy that would resemble grey goo.
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Green goo

One convenient analogy for the grey goo problem is to consider bacteria as the most perfect example of biological nanotechnology. As they have not reduced the world to green goo, some consider it unlikely that some artificial construct will manage to do so with grey goo.
Even so, some people argue that green goo, or even a combination of nanotechnology and biotechnology to create organic replicators, is a more realistic threat than grey goo. Arguing that bacteria are ubiquitous and extraordinarily powerful, Bill Bryson (2003) says that the Earth is "their planet" and that we're only allowed to exist on it because "they allow us to". Margulis and Sagan (1995) go further, arguing that all organisms, having descended from bacteria, are in a sense bacteria. Many kinds of bacteria are in fact essential for human life and are found in large quantities in the human digestive tract, in a symbiotic relationship.
Thus a green goo could be a multicellular organism that obtains its raw materials to grow through ecophagy, and then grows through a process of exponential assembly such as cell division

 

[Trainwreck2100]

Tornado in Dallas

 

[Bat Attack]

So the end of the world resides inside Rob Reiner...scary.

 

[Edd Extraordinaire]

And The Cutting Crew.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

George Bush somehow getting reelected

 

[Bat Attack]

George Bush somehow getting reelected

LOL!

 

[AnimeJune]

Rosie O'Donnell will collapse into herself, like a dying star.

Being one of those people who grew up watching Rosie, back when she was the Queen of Nice, I'm going to have to defend her in this situation.

She is no Star Jones, in the good way. At least she didn't have an unnatural surgery done that made her look like a deflated black balloon with eyeballs painted on it.

Speaking of that though - why isn't the American Obesity Epidemic mentioned as a disaster? All those fat people walking, eating, dancing - sooner or later the US will collapse into a giant sinkhole under all of that weight.

 

[War Lord]

If Yellowstone blows, I think the devestation will be much further reaching than they are anticipating and a very large part of this entire continent will be damaged, including parts of Canada.

jag

We'd just throw up Quebec as a barrier.

 

[Bat Attack]

It's all in good fun, AnimeJune.

 

[redmarvel]

The Exodus of Canadians attempting to escape the Ravaging Polar Bears and Penguins. (The Polar Bears and Penguins will attack when their food sources run out up north).

 

[War Lord]

The Exodus of Canadians attempting to escape the Ravaging Polar Bears and Penguins. (The Polar Bears and Penguins will attack when their food sources run out up north).

Again, we only need to sacrifice Quebec to solve this.

 

[AnimeJune]

Again, we only need to sacrifice Quebec to solve this.

Mais oui! Bien sur. On ne besoin pas le Quebec pour etre le Canada.