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Societal collapse?

nimrod said:
the borgs might save us

www.biorxiv.org

Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements with the potential to augment methane oxidation

Anaerobic methane oxidation exerts a key control on greenhouse gas emissions [1][1], yet factors that modulate the activity of microorganisms performing this function remain little explored. In studying groundwater, sediments, and wetland soil where methane production and oxidation occur, we...
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Would an "explain it like I'm 5" for this essentially be that there are organisms that breathe methane?
 
i like your faith in my understanding it any better than you but my brief scan read thought the same, yes.
 
I’m not sure being assimilated to the Borg collective is particularly sounding like salvation.

Anyway I’m carrying on as normal. Might as well as resistance is apparently futile.
 
Society collapse? Reality is unless a major catastrophe occurs things carry on.
Society generally ticks over as long as people aren’t collectively plunged into a world where things they take for granted are removed. Society moves in a gradual basis to point you don’t realise it’s changing.
If majority of a population have readily access to accommodation, food, water and sanitation it’ll keep things on an even keel.
An immediate removal of the first 3 items on that list plunge society into chaos.
It’s at that point you’d see what you’d think as decent people behave in barbaric ways to survive.
If anyone has been unfortunate enough to watch the film threads will know the scary part of that film wasn’t the war itself it was the life that the survivors lead afterwards. Ps strongly advise anyone who hasn’t seen that film not to watch it.
Not because it’s crap because it’s so graphically good it’ll scare the life out of anyone.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Threads was a work of genius.
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Yep Still maintain every world leader should sit and watch that film. No horror film has scared the shit out of me as much as that did.
What Barry Hines did well was make the people in it prior to the war seem very ordinary mundane everyday people plunged into a world of hell. Brilliant also how he made everyone so blasé about it until it was obvious it was going to happen.
 
Yep only watched it ever once when it was first shown in 1984ish, still remember some of the scenes.
 
I was to young on its original release in 1984 watched it in 2003 when it was shown on BBC3.
Fair to say every time someone mentions Sheffield it’s the first thing I still think about.
Another one you don’t want to stumble across is the war game from 1965, a BBC docudrama.
Both make the day after look like a day at the races.
 
Downloading it now, never even heard of it.
 
I'm going to seek this out too. Can't see it on Amazon or Netflix...unsurprisingly :)
 
I read a book called Command and Control about nuclear weapons a while ago. That scared the shit out of me. Used to be quite supportive of them on the basis they deter regular wars. But after reading that, there's been so many near misses since WW2 it's quite terrifying. Its luck more than anything we've not obliterated ourselves.
 
WolfMan said:
I read a book called Command and Control about nuclear weapons a while ago. That scared the shit out of me. Used to be quite supportive of them on the basis they deter regular wars. But after reading that, there's been so many near misses since WW2 it's quite terrifying. Its luck more than anything we've not obliterated ourselves.
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Misinterpretation, mistakes and paranoia are the biggest risks.
 
Templeton Peck said:
So COP26 has failed. What now?
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Well Chuck Windsor more or less wrote off world leaders ie the democratic process and put the corporations in charge.

No real outline on how this massive change he envisages affects us all. It appears to me these 'elites' carry on as before and point the finger at us. Strange days ...
 
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