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whowillsurvive2012.com - The Mayan Calendar predicts the end of time: 2012. See the trailer for 2012, opening November 13.
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- FarmPunk, on 04/25/2008, -2/+12There is no way in hell humanity will still be around in another 70k years. Or maybe even another 70.
- apophenic, on 04/25/2008, -1/+10That doesn't even make sense.
- Loonacy, on 04/25/2008, -0/+9Not if those darn libruls get their way and start using up all the solar energy. There's only so much of it to go around, you know.
- roodammy44, on 04/25/2008, -0/+9The sun has another 4 billion years left in it, it's estimated.
- inajeep, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6troll name, troll comment
- LemurHorde, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5"A volcanic winter is the reduction in temperature caused by volcanic ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the sun." (stolen from WP) Mt. Toba created a 6 year nuclear winter and a 1000 year ice age.
- gamebittk, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5Don't volcanoes release sulfur, which spreads around the atmosphere and cools the planet?
- brjohnson789, on 04/25/2008, -4/+9Let's get this out of the way right now: the humans most likely nearly went extinct 70000 years ago or so due to the Toba super-volcano, not some regular climate shift. It WASN'T from SUVs. I would say it wasn't from CO2, but I am sure a bunch of CO2 was released from the volcano explosion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theo ...
- zadadka, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4Which is what Digg is for....bringing interesting stuff to those that don't watch those channels all the time.....
- rodlaiz, on 04/25/2008, -5/+9You're a moron
- DBSABZB, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4God, If you listenin'... HELP!
- da_bradler, on 04/25/2008, -3/+7Muslims Christians Jews, what's the difference, it's all the same religion they just disagree on some of the semantics. My guy rides a golden pony into heaven, My guy is a zombie back from the dead, we don't have a guy just an extremely vengeful god... blah blah blah
- CapitalPro, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3"Science Damn You!"
- rodrigo74, on 04/25/2008, -1/+4It's called Science.
- DeadFox1, on 04/25/2008, -3/+6but weren't you ASKED by digg if this story has already been previously submitted?
- matx, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3Doesnt look like the trolls died out, there all here!
- inajeep, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3So we get the current races in 70 thousand years or were the pockets of people the current races we have now? I wonder what races were wiped out? Orcs, trolls and elves? ;-)
- Myonosken, on 04/25/2008, -2/+5I'm fairly sure that was sarcasm sir.
- Zippo, on 04/25/2008, -2/+5I find the idea of evolution much more inspiring than any religious stories.
For example, in Christianity, we were created and more-or-less protected. God made us and that's about it. Poof.
In reality, though, we are a marvel of chance, nature, and life. We evolved from a species of primate and, over thousands of years of tests and struggles, developed into an incredibly intelligent, creative, and sentient species... above all other creatures on this little spec of space, we rose above. - inactive, on 04/25/2008, -1/+4Please explain how this proves that the earth is 6,000 years old and that we all come from a man who was made of soil and a woman who was made from that man's rib, and all because of a talking snake.
- sindex, on 04/25/2008, -3/+6This is ridiculous. Everyone knows the Earth is only 6,000 - 7,000 years old. My preacher said so, and he wouldn't lie.
- EpicSelekta, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Race is much more a social construct than an actual difference. Given 70000 years, small genetic changes such as altered melanin levels in skin are no problem. The major differences between races are cultural, and we already know that most of these differences are recent (although culture itself isn't).
- Myonosken, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2The general timeline of events?
- lejake, on 04/25/2008, -1/+3Baby, we need to do this for the survival of our species. We better double our odds - your girlfriend can join in too.
- wrathchilde, on 04/25/2008, -1/+3Environmental change is not a linear one-to-one relationship where all areas are affected the same way. It is entirely conceivable that Toba caused an over-all cooling, AND weather patterns changed such that precipitation was reduced in some places, such as Western Africa. Warming is not the only cause of regional drought.
- jefuchs, on 04/25/2008, -2/+4And besides, it wasn't a drought. It was a flood! Science can't get anything right!
- saluma, on 04/25/2008, -1/+3looking at earth's night side from space, it looks like we are still in small isolated groups.
- sofaKing812, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2It's like Battlestar Galactica, but without the Cylons and space.
- inactive, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1It Wasn't drought. The Sumerian and Hittite Empire made it law that people should burn only Bio-Diesel in their spacecraft. As a result severe food shortages were commonplace and many died as a result.
- Zippo, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Did you even read my post? I wasn't saying the Bible was scientific. I was saying I think the idea of a higher being creating us was uninspiring... and that the science behind our existence is much more appealing to me. Even with all our faults, we're still a success story in nature.
- Fordi, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1Heh. Apparently not. This word, I don't think it means what you think it means.
- feliks2, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1No its not silly, its super cereal.
- purag66, on 05/13/2009, -1/+1Dugg for the correct use of "epic" in the article
FTA: "Truly an epic drama, written in our DNA." - lorductape, on 04/25/2008, -9/+9this is silly, everyone knows its clearly manbearpig.
- apophenic, on 04/25/2008, -3/+3So close.
- Patrickdnj, on 04/25/2008, -2/+2http://digg.com/general_sciences/Report_Human_Bein ...
- matx, on 04/25/2008, -2/+2The Bible isn't a scientific text book. It may simply say we were just created but id doesn't say how. If it went into detail into every single thing then we wouldn't need scientists to find out how things work. Go to a scientific textbook to find that out.
- ajkrik, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1"Genetic" historians like Spenser Wells are just novelists dressed up like scientists. They pick a grain of sand off the beach and tell you what the cave men ate in France. It's more junk science.
- rommelbhargava, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0yeah humans lost there tails in the mishap :(
damn! they were saved! - noahhoward, on 04/25/2008, -4/+4No actually if you're not an idiot he makes a point using sarcasm. "Global Warming is People" advocates want you to believe this has never happened before and only started happening with the industrial revolution. The facts show this is *****.
- slantyeyed, on 04/25/2008, -2/+2if there isn't anyone left to sue then it never happened.
- EpicSelekta, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1Many Christians believe that the world is well more than 6000 years old too. The ultra-right-wing fundies stick to the 4004BC story, but they're pretty much the only ones.
- Charlotte_Web, on 04/25/2008, -4/+3Chapter and verse, please?
- dhusk, on 04/25/2008, -1/+0I was thinking the same thing when I saw this article. The first thing I thought about was the Toba eruption, which happened roughly around the same time. It couldn't have been coincidence. It might not have been just the CO2, though, that caused thr droughts. That much particulate blown into the air would have disrupted weather patterns all over the globe for many years afterward. Droughts don't just happen because the weather heats up; diverted or disrupted rainfall patterns also are a major culprit as well. Toba could have knocked things out of balance for several decades.
- BroodofEvil, on 04/25/2008, -3/+2in before "Creationists"
- AlexBucket, on 04/25/2008, -2/+1It's very hard to imagine that 70,000 years ago we were almost wiped out, but if it's scientifically proven, its kind of....scary!
- saffsam, on 04/25/2008, -1/+0We should all be grateful, or digg wouldnt exist ;)
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