This Just In, Death Lurks!
Which Extermination Do We Prefer?
I occasionally post strange stuff (not strange to me, of course) to a Disqus "conversation" in their Sci-fi category - sort of a sub-Reddit. Following discussions on the existence of UFOs and the A.I. takeover, I wrote this, which seemed in general step with the stuff I put on this blog.
So here:
The (eagerly awaited by some) Final Blow to human life might be an invasion of a powerful, pitiless bunch of aliens who think we are just spiffy hors d’ oeuvres. We sci-fi nuts keep dreaming up new apocalyses when a real one is floating around all over. One of the certainties of massive over-population is that a "die back" is cooked into the craziness. "We're all gonna die!" screams the heroine. True, of course, but all at once? Possible.
The speed with which viruses mutate is 1.) Scary as heck, and 2.) a powerful argument for the obvious phenomenon of evolution. The world's ballooning population, the mega-city phenom, air travel to everywhere and our declining immunity powers in many parts of the world due to war and poverty means great pandemics are inevitable. I don't know if one plague is worse than any of the other fast evolving diseases, Zika, ebola, et al are pretty dad gum fierce, but I'm sure some even-worse ailment will emerge from its reservoir in armadillos. We always hear the cockroaches will out-survive us all. Maybe roaches are brewing up a bug to wipe us out so they can ascend to their role as Last Survivor. Maybe they ARE the "aliens."
Then there's this:
"The first response to the ravages of a really successful bioweapon attack was a nuclear riposte. As millions were dying slow, ghastly plague deaths in the first country to receive a full scale bio attack, millions others died rather more rapidly under unspeakably hot fireballs in the counter-attack. The first time it happened to be aimed at the wrong country – failed intelligence at its worst – but it hardly mattered in the big picture of the Apocalypse.."*
The speed with which viruses mutate is 1.) Scary as heck, and 2.) a powerful argument for the obvious phenomenon of evolution. The world's ballooning population, the mega-city phenom, air travel to everywhere and our declining immunity powers in many parts of the world due to war and poverty means great pandemics are inevitable. I don't know if one plague is worse than any of the other fast evolving diseases, Zika, ebola, et al are pretty dad gum fierce, but I'm sure some even-worse ailment will emerge from its reservoir in armadillos. We always hear the cockroaches will out-survive us all. Maybe roaches are brewing up a bug to wipe us out so they can ascend to their role as Last Survivor. Maybe they ARE the "aliens."
Then there's this:
"The first response to the ravages of a really successful bioweapon attack was a nuclear riposte. As millions were dying slow, ghastly plague deaths in the first country to receive a full scale bio attack, millions others died rather more rapidly under unspeakably hot fireballs in the counter-attack. The first time it happened to be aimed at the wrong country – failed intelligence at its worst – but it hardly mattered in the big picture of the Apocalypse.."*
You know, the final war with weaponized microbes, reflecting mankind's evil genius. Ebola, et al.... Meh.
*(Plug alert) https://areluctantgod.blogs...
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