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As NPR covers rather nicely in this article, all the rapture and apocalypse talk on the net and on roadside billboards stems from the predictions of Judgment Day enthusiast and evangelical radio broadcaster Harold Camping. He previously thought the Biblical end times would kick off back on Sept. 6, 1994. Instead, all that happened was that British pianist Nicky Hopkins died. In other words, the world moved on.
A reporter drives back into the 30-kilometer evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan to report on conditions. He reports: He says that, inside the evacuation zone, homes,building, roads and bridges, which were torn down by Tsunami, are left completely untouched, and the herd of cattle and pet dogs, left behind by the [...]
The creativity demonstrated here made me laugh – I have never thought of destroying the planet in this way: The realism is also impressive. The creators: Onemoreproduction.com See also: What is the gray goo nightmare? [[[Jump to previous Funny....]]] If you would like to follow Brainstuff on Twitter or Facebook, here are the links: – [...]
I know I’m a little late, but I’ve finally caught up on the first season of “The Walking Dead” and it’s safe to say that I’m obsessed. I’ve had to watch multiple scenes through my fingers, the plot makes no sense and the explosion at the CDC may have been the funniest thing I’ve seen on screen all year, but I’ve loved every minute of this show so far. Except for a worrying number of moments that have actually made me question the intelligence of the characters.
Free Toaster When You Open a PennyPincher (TM) Goat Savings Account
by Josh Clark | November 18, 2010
If money is the root of all evil and goats are the incarnate of evil, then why not use them interchangably? Well, you can. Some enterprising entrepreneurs in rural Korawan, India have established a bank that maintains goats as currency. It makes utter and complete sense — don’t say it doesn’t, Western Yankee.
NDTV reports of a woman named Prema and some of her fellow villagers have assembled some goats that they loan to woman in the village looking to make extra cash for their families selling goat’s milk.
In this video, Dr. Michio Kaku explains what would happen to civilization and our world after a nuclear war: Backup: The science of Fallout The movie “The Day After” tried to paint a scientifically accurate picture of a large-scale nuclear attack on the United States. Here is what the actual attack might look like: The [...]
Medieval Math as Post-apocalyptic Technology
by Robert Lamb | August 12, 2010
Post-apocalyptic fiction is full of scenarios where survivors sift through the bones and dust to uncover high-tech treasures they don’t really understand. In “Beneath the Planet of the Apes,” it was an atom bomb worshiped as a god. In “The Prince of Nothing” trilogy it was a laser weapon regarded as a magical spear.
Recently I posted about the union of science and theology in Dante’s 14th century classic “Inferno” (you can read it here) and it got me thinking: Is Western medieval mathematics analogous to the dusted-off super technology in our bleaker works of sci-fi? So it seems.
Giant Molecular Cloud Apocalypse Anyone?
by Robert Lamb | June 15, 2010
The energy of the sun heats the Earth, churning sea and sky into motion, fueling photosynthesis and keeping it warm enough for hot pants, swimming pools and — oh yeah — life itself.
Given this dependency, many of our most dire doomsday scenarios involve the interruption of sunlight. There’s nuclear winter, in which atomic firestorms blot out the sun with rolling black clouds of soot. There are volcanic and impact winters, brought on by massive eruptions and enormous asteroid impacts.
Then there’s what you might think of as a giant molecular cloud winter.
Back in the 1950s there was a serious government program around the idea of public and personal fallout shelters, as seen in this archival video: See also: Living in a fallout shelter These old fallout shelters were intended to sustain life for two weeks – long enough for radiation lavels to get back to normal [...]
So the “apocalypse” has arrived in whatever form you prefer to imagine: nuclear war, earthquakes, super-volcano eruptions, terrorist attacks or whatever. Your above-ground house isn’t going to survive, so where do you go? In the movie 2012, wealthy individuals bought tickets on huge ships called arks that carried them through the floods. In the real [...]
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