From the LHC to Stem Cells...
What scientific advancements are/were supposed to end the world as we see it?
I thought it might be amusing (or not so, in some cases) to make a sort of archival list.
End of the world type shit.
End of the world type shit.
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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Re: End of the world type shit.
Trains going faster than 30mph were supposed to cause your head to explode!
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Re: End of the world type shit.
Self-replicating nanobots that get loose from the lab and turn all matter on earth into more nanobots.
Re: End of the world type shit.
That thing in the crate in my wardrobe, but I couldn't get enough plutonium. 
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Re: End of the world type shit.
GFP... the world will die from Green Fluorescent Protein, because it's Genetically Modified... OH NOES!!! 
And I has plenty in me lab :twisted:
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Re: End of the world type shit.
Just about everything, if you listen to some people.
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Re: End of the world type shit.
'Going large' at McDonalds
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
House MD
Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
Sandy Denny
This is the wrong forum for bluffing
Paco
Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
Calilasseia
I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
Twoflower
Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse
Millefleur
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Re: End of the world type shit.
"Andromeda strain escapes from lab and moves into trailer park."
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Re: End of the world type shit.
"The only things that are infinite are the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."
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Re: End of the world type shit.
Someday I intend to write a book about irrational public fear of science titled Everything Causes Cancer.Sirhenry wrote:Just about everything, if you listen to some people.
The sole reason for this is because I want to use that title.
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Re: End of the world type shit.
Everything (and Nothing) Causes Cancer.CP wrote:Someday I intend to write a book about irrational public fear of science titled Everything Causes Cancer.Sirhenry wrote:Just about everything, if you listen to some people.
The sole reason for this is because I want to use that title.
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Re: End of the world type shit.
CP wrote:Someday I intend to write a book about irrational public fear of science titled Everything Causes Cancer.Sirhenry wrote:Just about everything, if you listen to some people.
The sole reason for this is because I want to use that title.
Beat you to it.
Was the title of my essay pissing on TT and aca.
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
Re: End of the world type shit.
Oh, screw you.born-again-atheist wrote:CP wrote:Someday I intend to write a book about irrational public fear of science titled Everything Causes Cancer.Sirhenry wrote:Just about everything, if you listen to some people.
The sole reason for this is because I want to use that title.
Beat you to it.
Was the title of my essay pissing on TT and aca.
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Re: End of the world type shit.
Where and when?
You know... if you were to buy the rights to the title off me...
You know... if you were to buy the rights to the title off me...
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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