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[sneakypete]

disappointed to hear its bunk. I think the end of the world would be a jolly good time

This is bullshit. That said, I kind of wish the world would end.

Where's Lunchbox when you need him? Oh well I guess I can pick up the slack.

crawling in my skin
these wounds they will not heal
fear is how I fall
confusing what is real


there's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
consuming/confusing
this lack of self-control I fear is never ending
controlling/I can't seem


to find myself again
my walls are closing in
(without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
so insecure

crawling in my skin
these wounds they will not heal
fear is how I fall
confusing what is real

discomfort, endlessly has pulled itself upon me
distracting/reacting
against my will I stand beside my own reflection
it's haunting how I can't seem...

to find myself again
my walls are closing in
(without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
so insecure

crawling in my skin
these wounds they will not heal
fear is how I fall
confusing what is real

crawling in my skin
these wounds they will not heal
fear is how I fall
confusing confusing what is real

there's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
consuming/confusing what is real
this lack of self-control I fear is never ending
controlling/confusing what is real

 

[thetrin]

disappointed to hear its bunk. I think the end of the world would be a jolly good time

You are fucked in the head.

 

[Cday]

Oh come on. You know when i summarized the Mega Disasters show you know what i meant about all life.

Yeah I said it was dumb and it still is. It as in the show.

"But anaerobic life would still exist!" When talking about things that can kill humanity and alter life on the planet as we know it you know we are not going to be concerned that some microbial life is going survive.

Excuse me if this is a misunderstanding. I generally wasn't talking about things that can kill humanity, though I realize the Extinction Doomsday 2012 Channel focuses on those scenarios.

 

[Neverender]

Anyone who says they wish the world would end hasn't really put a lot of the thought into the idea.

 

[fuzzyreactor]

You are fucked in the head.

thank you

Anyone who says they wish the world would end hasn't really put a lot of the thought into the idea.

not wishing for anything, just saying id be down and the leading weeks would prob be a damn rocking time

 

[Blackface]

The one guy who debunks it says he could see a big sink hole forming.

 

[DMeisterJ]

I hope it doesn't happen soon... I just got a new phone.

 

[Shaka]

Something is always trying to kill me

 

[Majmun]

Any nice movie/music/game recommendations before I die?

 

[MidgarBlowedUp]

As soon as I hear a loud fart I'll divide by zero while I hold my calculator upside down to counteract the end of the world. Should save me at least. And don't worry, I'll run Gaf from here while you guys are in Hell for all the pain this thread has caused the survivors. I'm sure Satan gets the internet I just hope the keyboards down there only have one functioning key, F5. That way all you can do is refresh the pages and watch me reply to myself with joke accounts. And don't think you get to keep your status tags, all you guys are getting the dreaded jr member as I change mine to Lord of the Zombies or whatever me and my joke account friends agree on.

 

[Ducks]

Well, that's disturbing but I guess there isn't any point in stressing out about it lol

 

[sullytao]

Hehe just read the entire thread. I am shocked that so many of you took it as pure fact :lol

 

[Numpt3]

I hope it doesn't happen soon... I just got a new phone.

:lol

 

[iamaustrian]

wow that would be so awesome
*thumbs up*

 

[Trent Strong]

Any nice movie/music/game recommendations before I die?

'Two Suns' by Bat For Lashes.

 

[Nard Bagman]

Jesus, the fact that a pressure wave from the tsunami could flatten everything first, imagine how gigantic that tsunami would be. There'd be nothing left of anything it hit.

 

[industrian]

The one guy who debunks it says he could see a big sink hole forming.

Throw in a grenade, that'll close it.

 

[dabig2]

I always enjoyed popping bubbles as a kid. Never knew we all would die in a similar manner.

Tragic.

 

[Gaz Pwnage]

im tired of all this end of the world bullshit. I just wish something would hurry up and happen and put us out of our god damn misery.

 

[CTLance]

Any nice movie/music/game recommendations before I die?

I'd recommend reading a Manga. Hotel might be a very wise choice, seeing how it's on-topic and one of the best ever.

 

[industrian]

I'm trying my best to get my head around this.

How is Asia and Europe doomed by this?

 

[klausbert]

Any nice movie/music/game recommendations before I die?

The End by The Doors.

 

[xbhaskarx]

It has been debunked?
YES

It's alllllll riiiiight noooow, in fact it's a gas

 

[Drek]

The one guy who debunks it says he could see a big sink hole forming.

You can make it two people who now debunk it.

251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth. [1]

The link doesn't say this. In fact, the link is a website that espouses the nearly universally excepted mass volcanism followed by glaciation theory for the P-Tr extinction that has a near 100% perfect correlation with the types of biodiversity that died off.

55 million years later another methane bubble ruptured causing more mass extinctions during the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (LPTM).

The LPTM lasted 100,000 years. [3]

1. His own link doesn't even support that a massive methane bubble was the cause of the LPTM.

2. Methane as the cause of the LPTM is a semi-new theory that as of yet is about as based in fact as someone saying "your car doesn't run, having no fuel is a potential cause for this, so therefore you're definitely out of fuel". There is no historical evidence to point out as to where or if this definitively happened.

Northwestern University's Gregory Ryskin, a bio-chemical engineer, has a theory: The oceans periodically produce massive eruptions of explosive methane gas. He has documented the scientific evidence that such an event was directly responsible for the mass extinctions that occurred 55 million years ago. [4]

Ryskin can go suck a fucking dick and leave this shit to those of us who are actually trained in this field. I love when engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, etc. all feel like they can sound off on global issues like they have a clue. You'd be better off asking your dentist to perform heart surgery. None of them understand the the holistic nature of global phenomena.

Luckily for us there is such a profession, geology, where people are trained to take all of these various fragments of the puzzle and put them together. Maybe that might just be a better source for information here?

As for Ryskin's actual theory:
1. mass methane releases lead to global warming. The PTr extinction was marked by significant glaciation. We know this thanks to ice core data from Antarctica. How exactly does that work?

2. Pangea was a super-continent that would protect much of its inland regions from the immediate effects of such an event, yet the PTr extinction is marked by mass die outs inland heading towards the coasts, followed by oceanic extinctions. The exact opposite of what you'd expect in a oceanic methane deposit scenario. Again, the hypothesis doesn't pass an initial test.

Many geologists concur: "The consequences of a methane-driven oceanic eruption for marine and terrestrial life are likely to be catastrophic. Figuratively speaking, the erupting region "boils over," ejecting a large amount of methane and other gases (e.g., CO2, H2S) into the atmosphere, and flooding large areas of land. Whereas pure methane is lighter than air, methane loaded with water droplets is much heavier, and thus spreads over the land, mixing with air in the process (and losing water as rain). The air-methane mixture is explosive at methane concentrations between 5% and 15%; as such mixtures form in different locations near the ground and are ignited by lightning, explosions and conflagrations destroy most of the terrestrial life, and also produce great amounts of smoke and of carbon dioxide..." [5]

The article he references here doesn't mention this at all. Not a single word of this bullshit quote.

In fact, it is actually an article on quaternary methane emissions. You know, the period that started 2.5M years ago and has continued on to now. Last I checked we haven't had any mass extinctions in the last 2.5M years.

I'd say that's about enough debunking though. As he goes on in the article he doesn't even put forth the effort to misrepresent and outright falsify sources and instead just rambles on about his own bullshit theories and what he's supposedly heard.

Fucking crackpots.

 

[Easy_D]

Should have been helium instead, in just the right amount to give everyone on the planet squeaky voice for at least a week.

It would have been the best week ever.

 

[Chinner]

you mean....death to america is actually achievable?

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

All BP's fault :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Perhaps if humanity is very, very lucky, some may find a way to avoid the mass extinction that follows and carry on the human race.

Perhaps.

They mostly come at night.

Mostly.

 

[Zenith]

It's a load of baloney. The guy even cites the discredited youtuve video of someone claiming it was raining oil as "proof". The way he just assumes as a given that there's a media blackout to protect this conspiracy is symptomatic of a crackpot.

 

[Barrett2]

So the question is..... would you spend your last moments with GAF or your family?

The thought of billions of people dying in the streets while some Gaffer uses his last breaths to argue about KZ2's graphics is hilarious. Noxious gas seeps under the door while you take in a final huge gasp of air, holding your breath just long enough to find that perfect comparison screenshot to post, proving Alan Wake's shading effects are terrible...



I saw the article last night; when apocalypse stuff like this is a possibility, there is a weird blood lust. Obviously it would be terrible to all die, but part of you thinks: "damn, that would be impressive."

 

[hirokazu]

251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth...

55 million years later another methane bubble ruptured causing more mass extinctions during the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (LPTM)...

Those subterranean seas of methane virtually reshaped the planet when they explosively blew from deep beneath the waters of what is today called the Gulf of Mexico.

What Gulf of Mexico? :lol :lol :lol

251m years ago:

Not sure why people took this seriously if they bothered to read the article. So much shit spewed without references to back them up.

 

[Feathers]

you mean....death to america is actually achievable?

BP still fighting the good fight on behalf of the Crown. Although wiping out all human life may be a tad overdoing it.

 

[hirokazu]

You can make it two people who now debunk it.


The link doesn't say this. In fact, the link is a website that espouses the nearly universally excepted mass volcanism followed by glaciation theory for the P-Tr extinction that has a near 100% perfect correlation with the types of biodiversity that died off.


1. His own link doesn't even support that a massive methane bubble was the cause of the LPTM.

2. Methane as the cause of the LPTM is a semi-new theory that as of yet is about as based in fact as someone saying "your car doesn't run, having no fuel is a potential cause for this, so therefore you're definitely out of fuel". There is no historical evidence to point out as to where or if this definitively happened.


Ryskin can go suck a fucking dick and leave this shit to those of us who are actually trained in this field. I love when engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, etc. all feel like they can sound off on global issues like they have a clue. You'd be better off asking your dentist to perform heart surgery. None of them understand the the holistic nature of global phenomena.

Luckily for us there is such a profession, geology, where people are trained to take all of these various fragments of the puzzle and put them together. Maybe that might just be a better source for information here?

As for Ryskin's actual theory:
1. mass methane releases lead to global warming. The PTr extinction was marked by significant glaciation. We know this thanks to ice core data from Antarctica. How exactly does that work?

2. Pangea was a super-continent that would protect much of its inland regions from the immediate effects of such an event, yet the PTr extinction is marked by mass die outs inland heading towards the coasts, followed by oceanic extinctions. The exact opposite of what you'd expect in a oceanic methane deposit scenario. Again, the hypothesis doesn't pass an initial test.



The article he references here doesn't mention this at all. Not a single word of this bullshit quote.

In fact, it is actually an article on quaternary methane emissions. You know, the period that started 2.5M years ago and has continued on to now. Last I checked we haven't had any mass extinctions in the last 2.5M years.

I'd say that's about enough debunking though. As he goes on in the article he doesn't even put forth the effort to misrepresent and outright falsify sources and instead just rambles on about his own bullshit theories and what he's supposedly heard.

Fucking crackpots.

All the "references" were put in there to make it seem more convincing to people who think "oh, this thing has references, therefore it must be factual!" Anyone bothering to check the claims and references linked will see that there's not much backing up his claims. That, and when he starts to link events supposedly happening in the Gulf as an indicator of impending disaster and what some experts are supposedly saying, the article suddenly becomes devoid of references.

 

[Lost Fragment]

HP/MP restored!

But you're still hungry.

 

[CurlySaysX]

Get you ass to mars.

 

[Scotch]

disappointed to hear its bunk. I think the end of the world would be a jolly good time

This is bullshit. That said, I kind of wish the world would end.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this

Silly shit, stupid shit...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.

 

[NotWii]

H2S implicated in mass extinctions

Hydrogen sulfide has been implicated in some of the several mass extinctions that have occurred in the Earth's past. In particular, a buildup of hydrogen sulfide in the atmosphere may have caused the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago.[34]

Organic residues from these extinction boundaries indicate that the oceans were anoxic (oxygen-depleted) and had species of shallow plankton that metabolized H2S. The formation of H2S may have been initiated by massive volcanic eruptions, which emitted CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, which warmed the oceans, lowering their capacity to absorb oxygen that would otherwise oxidize H2S. The increased levels of hydrogen sulfide could have killed oxygen-generating plants as well as depleted the ozone layer, causing further stress. Small H2S blooms have been detected in modern times in the Dead Sea and in the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Namibia.[34]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide#H2S_implicated_in_mass_extinctions

And there's plenty spewing from the drillsite

I'm trying my best to get my head around this.

How is Asia and Europe doomed by this?

How did the dinosaurs all die because of one tiny asteroid?
Oh yeah, where did it hit again?
GULF OF MEXICO

HISTORY REPEATS, HUMANS ARE DOOMED

 

[zoukka]

I don't know. This particular day I felt really bad reading all this ;__;

 

[Barrett2]

How did the dinosaurs all die because of one tiny asteroid?

Why we still got lizards?

 

[The Technomancer]

We may really be in trouble here. Satellites have already been able to capture an image of the fissure.

Am I the only one who gets the joke? :lol :lol :lol
Y'all need to watch more Doctor Who

EDIT: Okay, apparently some people did. I just saw it quoted immediately three times completely straightfaced.

 

[NotWii]

It doesn't matter if there's a methane bubble or not, mankind is doomed.
It's all downhill from here.

Lady Gaga, autotuned music, increasingly shittier films, girls who don't know how to cook, vuvuzelas, popped collars and apple fanboys should be enough to tip you off that we are in the endtimes.
Yes, I'm talking about THOSE end times, and I'm not even christian!

There's a new dominant species emerging, mankind is finished
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySMh1mBi3cI

You could have prevented all this, but it's too late, you've allowed society to fester to a point of no return.

IT'S OVER!
PACK YOUR BAGS!

Spoiler

XD

 

[Bolt Vanderhuge]

Before we all die in the massive Earth fart I just want you guys to know I never liked any of you. Ever. Fuck your mothers.

 

[CabbageRed]

Thanks for the great post and legwork, Drek. I, of course, say this without actually checking up on any of what you said but come on... when has that ever not worked out?

 

[forknknife]

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this

Silly shit, stupid shit...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.

Awesome song

 

[nilbog21]

i'll wait until i see this shit outside of gaf :lol

 

[whytemyke]

 

[BobTheFork]

I hope at least we catch the end of the world with a high speed camera, that's going to be epic footage.

 

[astroturfing]

meh, too crazy. impossible. not going to happen.

super volcanoes however... one of them erupts and that's it for us mammals.

 

[AFreak]

why doesn't BP just light a match? It'll be like lighting a match in the restroom after taking a huge dump.

 

[Naked Snake]

Not sure why people took this seriously

Because bish posted it

 

[kinggroin]

So the earth basically farts and eliminates all life?


Awesome.

Bwuahahaha!!!

I can hold my breath..... for a loooooooooong time hehehaha