So apparently were all doomed

**Xiahou** · 11-09-2007, 17:05

Originally Posted by Viking

I think that blocked out sunlight will just make the nuclear winter even colder.

Nonsense, the science is settled and a consensus has been reached.

**Duke John** · 11-09-2007, 17:08

Before we wish each other a pleasant weekend; what about the meteor, Greg?

**Gregoshi** · 11-09-2007, 18:40

Originally Posted by Duke John

Before we wish each other a pleasant weekend; what about the meteor, Greg?

Sorry DJ, ZFN put so many disasters in the OP, I missed the meteor.

Viking corrected me on the super volcano results. The volcano will compound the nuclear winter it seems. The meteor will further enhance this by throwing more material into the atmosphere. However, while darkening the sun, this will produce a triple layer of insulation which should hold in what heat the Earth already has. Add to this the effects of heat from the nukes and we shouldn't have to worry about freezing during several years of sun block. Now, as Viking mentioned, the reduced sunlight certainly won't help farming, but the extra rich volcanic material that will be settling to the ground should provide a reduced-light-cancelling boost to crop growth.

Now, if the meteor hits the ocean, a likely case, then we'll have lots of water vapor in the atmosphere, which normally would result in a greenhouse situation. What it may do, in fact, is cleanse the volcanic ash from the atmosphere via rain - which also takes the moisture/cloud cover from the atmosphere as well. Thus the cold inducing ash and the greenhouse inducing water vapor cancel each other and that the same time deposit the ash on our farm fields. The rich volcanic soil coupled with the bountiful rainfall should yield bumper crops, thus ending hunger planet wide.

Seems to me such a chain reaction of disasters could be the best thing that ever happened to Earth.

**spmetla** · 11-09-2007, 19:18

If the sky is knocked out at least there won't be any full moons for werewolves but according to the 30 days of night movie we'll all be vampire food then. Sheesh, as if zombies weren't enought, know we need shotguns AND garlic cloves.

**ZombieFriedNuts** · 11-09-2007, 21:51

Woo I forgot the black hole machine that’s under the Franco-Swiss border yay

**Fragony** · 11-09-2007, 22:00

was, sadly

**Gregoshi** · 11-09-2007, 22:03

Originally Posted by ZombieFriedNuts

Woo I forgot the black hole machine that’s under the Franco-Swiss border yay

Not a problem - maybe for our ancestors, but not us. If the Earth gets sucked into one of these man made black holes, we will begin to approach the speed of light under the massive gravitational pull and then time dialation kicks in. We'll live out our lives before we reach the event horizon of the black hole (when the Earth finally perishes).