Atheistforums.com

Science Section => Science General Discussion => Biology, Psychology & Medicine => Topic started by: gentle_dissident on May 26, 2016, 05:48:35 PM

Title: The End is Nigh
Post by: gentle_dissident on May 26, 2016, 05:48:35 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/)

At least we saw it comin.
Title: Re: The End is Nigh
Post by: Mike Cl on May 26, 2016, 07:36:04 PM
So, King's The Stand is just about to cross over from fiction to fact????
Title: Re: The End is Nigh
Post by: Baruch on May 26, 2016, 07:53:40 PM
I for one welcome our microbial overlords ;-)
Title: Re: The End is Nigh
Post by: stromboli on May 26, 2016, 07:56:31 PM
What, no zombies? Where's the fun in that?
Title: Re: The End is Nigh
Post by: marom1963 on May 27, 2016, 12:06:40 AM
This could make AIDS seem like a bad case of acne.
Title: Re: The End is Nigh
Post by: Hydra009 on May 27, 2016, 12:56:07 AM
Quote from: Mike Cl on May 26, 2016, 07:36:04 PM
So, King's The Stand is just about to cross over from fiction to fact????
♪  Don't fear the reaper  ♫
Title: Re: The End is Nigh
Post by: doorknob on May 27, 2016, 11:22:06 AM
have faith in science. I'm sure something new will be discovered. Hopefully sooner than later.

Well if we all die in the meantime it's been fun.
Title: Re: The End is Nigh
Post by: Baruch on May 28, 2016, 02:48:00 AM
Quote from: doorknob on May 27, 2016, 11:22:06 AM
have faith in science. I'm sure something new will be discovered. Hopefully sooner than later.

Well if we all die in the meantime it's been fun.

Saved temporarily by medicine.  Nothing wrong with that, but nothing cures death, not even Jesus.  New things get discovered all the time, but dystopia is the result, not utopia.
Title: Re: The End is Nigh
Post by: stromboli on May 28, 2016, 08:16:19 AM
I'm not worried. I live in my Rocky Mountain abode. Shit gets real, John Galt will show up and fix it. The book said so.
Title: Re: The End is Nigh
Post by: Baruch on May 28, 2016, 08:44:46 AM
Quote from: stromboli on May 28, 2016, 08:16:19 AM
I'm not worried. I live in my Rocky Mountain abode. Shit gets real, John Galt will show up and fix it. The book said so.

As in, if your enemy is hurting himself, don't interrupt him.  Of course in a book, the actual number of people who were required to keep civilization going ... creatively ... was about a dozen.  The actual number would be somewhat larger, and not fit into a little Colorado hidden valley.  Apparently high altitude is fatal to socialists, snark ;-)
Title: Re: The End is Nigh
Post by: Flanker1Six on May 29, 2016, 05:57:13 PM
Strange??   I swore I heard the lilting uplifting country strains of Rocky Mountain High for a moment??