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youtube.com - The Mortal Kombat developers came up with all kinds of ideas for fatalities. These are the ones that didn't make the cut.
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- kiiwii, on 08/25/2008, -0/+167Forbes.com will be a ghost town by 2009 if it doesn't change the format of its slideshows.
- cupcakeprincess, on 08/25/2008, -0/+90***** FORBES
Banjul, Gambia
Cause: Rising sea levels and erosion
As sea levels rise around the world, the small West African nation of Gambia may lose its capital, Banjul, entirely. The city is threatened by a combination of erosion and the rising ocean.
Detroit, U.S.A.
Cause: Population flight
Detroit's population has decreased by a third since 1950 to about 950,000, and it is expected to shrink slowly but steadily until at least 2030--unemployment inside the city is currently more than 10%. (The suburbs around Detroit, meanwhile, are growing.) If trends hold, Detroit will be altered beyond recognition by 2100.
Ivanovo, Russia
Cause: Population flight
A center of textile production during the Soviet era, this district capital to the northeast of Moscow has 448,000 inhabitants and falling. Women outnumber men, the birthrate is dropping and the mortality rate has increased since 1990. Educated young people leave for Moscow, as the city has no modern industry of any kind.
Mexico City, Mexico
Cause: Lack of drinking water and sinking
Mexico City is sinking, though not into the ocean. The city sits on an aquifer, which is also its main source of drinking water. Each time one of its 20 million inhabitants takes a drink of water, the city sinks a tiny bit more. By some estimates, parts of the city have fallen 9 meters in the last 100 years. Potentially even worse: The aquifer is thought to be running dry. Although Mexico City is currently growing at a rapid clip, a dwindling water supply on sinking ground could quickly reverse the trend.
Naples, Italy
Cause: Volcanic eruption
Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in A.D. 79, erupts about once every 100 years. It last erupted in 1944. Vesuvius sits on the Gulf of Naples in southern Italy, which is home to more than 4 million people. That includes those in the city of Naples itself, as well as more than half a million people in the "red zone" closest to the mountain--folks certain to die if not evacuated in time.
San Francisco, U.S.A.
Cause: Earthquake
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, forecast a 75% chance that San Francisco will be struck by a major earthquake of magnitude 7 or above by 2086.
Timbuktu, Mali
Cause: Desertification
Desertification, in which sand dunes swallow greener land, is a problem in several countries on the southern fringe of the Sahara. One of the cities most threatened is Timbuktu in Mali, a 1,000-year-old settlement that was a major center of Islamic learning during the 15th and 16th centuries. Several projects are under way to try to "re-green" the land with tree plantings and the like, but some parts of the city are already half buried in sand.
Venice, Italy
Cause: Sinking
Italy's city of canals has been sinking for about a millennium, but in the past century the pace has accelerated rapidly. Venice has sunk about 24 centimeters over the last 100 years. The government has an engineering plan to protect it from rising sea levels, but no one really knows if it will work. - krekc, on 08/24/2008, -0/+46It already is after 5pm on weekdays. Crime is rising still, the mayor is going to jail. The city council is beyond corrupt. Residents are fleeing in droves! The Michigan economy is one of the worst in the nation as well as the poverty rate. Itll be a ghost town before 2100.
- dibby1, on 08/25/2008, -2/+40I hate forbes' website!!!!!!!!!
- cambob76, on 08/25/2008, -1/+24Note to human race: stop building cities next to shorelines, faults, and volcanoes.
- slapded, on 08/25/2008, -0/+19forbes = ghost website parked at sedo in 2010
site designers = FAIL - ahalbert, on 08/25/2008, -1/+18Banjul looks like cardboard boxes not a city
- vinibinini, on 08/24/2008, -7/+24I really don't see Detroit becoming a Ghost Town....
- asskicker32, on 08/25/2008, -0/+16*****, I ***** HATE FORBES.COM
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -0/+15Thanks Forbes for reloading EVERYTHING!
FAIL! - regeya, on 08/25/2008, -1/+14Don't worry; OCP will roll out RoboCop soon.
- mogebier, on 08/25/2008, -0/+13Yeah not a ghost town... more like "Escape from New York"
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -0/+12If the city is destroyed by an earthquake, flooding, erosion or a volcanic eruption than it won't be a ghost town, it will be gone.
- Doomsan, on 08/25/2008, -2/+11A flickr gallery would be so much better.
- BetterOffEd, on 08/25/2008, -2/+11New Orleans?
- bitweever, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7I'm glad I'm not the only one who despises these slideshows. I frequently open Digg stories in a new tab, and by the time I get to the forbes story, it's already on to another topic.
- Berzirker, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7I thought the world is supposed to end in 2012?
- yngtimmy, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7Not becoming a ghost city?? You can buy a house there for less than the price of a cheap new car. Noone wants to move there.
- lovek, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7Well... when most of those cities were started they HAD to be near water. It's usually why the location was chosen.
And really? When was the last time you saw a NEW city? - Dumbledorito, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6Wasn't there an article about a house on the east side selling for $1?
And I've talked with friends in Michigan. They say the Detroit government is having problems in that there are lots of buildings (mostly homes) that should be bulldozed, having already been stripped of metals and fixtures by thieves, but they can't afford to knock them all over at the moment. - br0pbr0p, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6Why slide shows?
Does it improve their hit rates or something? -_-
(Or maybe extra ads, which I don't see) - chestertonb, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6The Ivanovo picture is interesting. Is that their Town Hall or something?
Maybe the real reason Ivanovo will disappear is because they will seemingly launch it towards the East coast of the USA. - asskicker32, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6Incidentally, this is also mostly BS. There is no way that some of those cities would be allowed to become ghost towns. San Francisco was rebuilt before and it will be rebuilt as long as there are humans. Its just too beautiful.
- bicyclefence, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5I recently visited Naples while traveling in Europe and it was a horrible experience. Between the current garbage crisis, the Mob's presence in the city, and the giant active Mount Vesuvius lurking overhead, I think Naples will be the first ghost city on this list...
garbage crisis: (there is literally garbage all over the streets causing potential airborne diseases.)
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1702 ... - RickyTheRiot, on 08/25/2008, -2/+7Thanks cupcake, those Forbes things are just *****.
- damack, on 08/25/2008, -11/+16If the world lived through George Bush's presidency we can live through anything.
- donkz, on 08/25/2008, -0/+51. Get a random idea
2. Back it up with random statistics
3. ...
4. profit - tinybubs, on 08/25/2008, -4/+9I keep hearing on digg that we were all going to die from runaway global warming within the next 50 years, so won't all cities be ghost towns by then?
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5I still say we should fill in the ground floor of every single building within the flood zone with concrete and blow up all the levees. Turn it into a boat town...the US version of Venice.
- YeahMan, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4Being from Metro Detroit, I can tell you that won't happen.
- jbmcb, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4People are moving back into Detroit. Certain neighborhoods are starting to boom - mainly due to the fact you can own an incredibly well built and decorated 4000 square foot mansion for $300,000. An equivalent new house would cost millions. Palmer Woods, Indian Village, and Boston-Edison are all taking off. The recent contraction has slowed things down, but the core of the city is starting to look a lot better than it did even ten years ago.
- crazzy88ss, on 08/24/2008, -1/+5The reason SF will disappear is because a large portion of the city is built on extended ground, basically landfill. It's not solid ground and an earthquake would tear through that stuff. Anything built on solid ground has a lot better chance of surviving.
- asskicker32, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4Mexico City is in Mexico. New Mexico is in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City - NJank, on 08/25/2008, -1/+51914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994, etc., depending on which infallible Watchtower Society (i.e., Jehovah's Witness) source you believe.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm - snoogit, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3What Forbes gets wrong is factoring in energy prices. as oil and other fuels go up in cost, people will begin to move back into the cities. It's Detroit's suburbs that should be worried, not Detroit. We're already seeing immigration back into Detroit and other formerly depleted by suburban flight cities rebounding a little bit. Detroit might lose some people, but the people moving back in are willing to make a difference in their community.
- Dumbledorito, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4Not as long as there's oil in the gulf. New Orleans is there for a reason. About the best you could hope for (if you want it to go away) is that the residential portion of the city diminishes as non-oil and non-shipping related industries decide to relocate or close.
- Falstaph, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3Bloody awful site design for one, and alarmist crap for two.
- sandersdamnit, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3Everybody knows OCP is gonna buy the police force and then turn Old Detroit into Delta City.
- moontime, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4That is what happened where I live (Asheville, NC). Town lost its soul.
- digggggggggg, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3The 1906 earthquake that caused the near complete destruction of the city was followed by rapid reconstruction. What makes Forbes think that the survivors will just pack up and leave this time around?
- ttait, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3what the hell is up with that stupid auto scroll. does no one from forbes.com actually go to the forbes.com website and realise how crap it is.
- Totz83, on 08/25/2008, -0/+2Im 24, what are you then, 2? Even at that you'll be 94 in the year 2100. Givin the life expectancy (51) of ZA I'd say your being very optimistic =p
- FlimBlimmer, on 08/25/2008, -1/+3Buried for Forbes slideshow.
- r1fl3m4n, on 08/25/2008, -0/+2Volcanic soil is one of the most fertile soils on Earth. So it's a risk I suppose.
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -2/+4Oh no, San Francisco? But... but what about Revision3...?
- jeremyduffy, on 08/25/2008, -1/+3What no New Orleans?
http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/sidebars/front ... - Frostek, on 08/25/2008, -0/+2This idea of people uploading themselves into a virtuality always makes me laugh. This is how it would likely go...
Punter - "I'd like to upload myself into Uberworld VR please!"
Doc - "Sure, the complete brainscan will cost 100 million Euro-dollars."
Punter - "Cool!" (hands over cash card)
Scan takes place...
Doc - "Right, that's done. Your mind has been copied into Uberworld and is having a great time already by all accounts."
Punter - "But... I'm still here. *I* want to go into Uberworld!"
Doc - "What are you, stupid? You think we can squeeze your brain in there somehow? Don't you know anything about how computers work? Now get your meatbag out of my office!"
Punter leaves disappointed, meanwhile Virtual_Punter "lives" for 1000's of years in Uberworld and does all sorts of weird *****.
The End.
Now digg me down you Singularity worshippers, who think they're going to live forever! :-) - JohnSteel, on 08/25/2008, -0/+2That's a real suck-ass slideshow. It goes too fast to read and then I get some how to protect a rich person crap slideshow when i didn't even click on the webpage.
- gn0stik, on 08/25/2008, -0/+2Seriously. I wonder what the place looked like before they invented cardboard.
- gn0stik, on 08/25/2008, -0/+2I'll believe the Mayans before those guys any day. Qeztacoatl (sp?) FTW!
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