Horror of Horrors
Terrifying stuff, man. Terrifying stuff.
I'm not actually concerned about the future of mankind. At least, not as far as doomsday reports and all that go. But I do like to entertain the idea. Sometimes, I just sit back and try to imagine the ways in which the end of humanity might happen: at the hands of the machines we've created; by a plague that we've engineered; by consuming all of our available food; etc., etc. It's interesting that many doomsday stories indicate that we will be our own undoing... but I wonder how much of that is meant to inspire people into prevention?
In any event, I find it fascinating. A little morbid, maybe.
Here, among reports of the way the world might end, are other strange things that I've found online.
BALL DRONES
2011-06-12 08:37:44
by: jovial_cynic
by: jovial_cynic
Just another step closer to our creations rising up against us:
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This flying ball can go upwards of 40mph and chase you anywhere. We are doomed.
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Feed readers can click here.
This flying ball can go upwards of 40mph and chase you anywhere. We are doomed.
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RECYCLING IS FOR THE BIRDS
2009-10-26 14:46:44
by: jovial_cynic
by: jovial_cynic
Back in 2007, I wrote a post about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and about how Ranger Rick had been warning us for years about where we put our garbage. None of us realized until this last decade that all the garage was floating around in the ocean.
And of course, being out in the ocean, no nation is legally required to do anything about it - there are no laws that govern the trash in the ocean, and it won't be until that trash has a direct impact on our own lives that anyone will be willing to do anything about it. And by then, it'll probably be a considerably larger mess to clean up.
A set of photos from Chris Jordan's "Message from the Gyre" taken this month are a haunting glimpse into what is heading our way:
These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.
~cj, October 2009
And there are many more images on Chris Jordan's site.
It's more than haunting, really. It's horrifying. And our insatiable hunger for cheap disposable crap is fueling it all.
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And of course, being out in the ocean, no nation is legally required to do anything about it - there are no laws that govern the trash in the ocean, and it won't be until that trash has a direct impact on our own lives that anyone will be willing to do anything about it. And by then, it'll probably be a considerably larger mess to clean up.
A set of photos from Chris Jordan's "Message from the Gyre" taken this month are a haunting glimpse into what is heading our way:
These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.
~cj, October 2009
And there are many more images on Chris Jordan's site.
It's more than haunting, really. It's horrifying. And our insatiable hunger for cheap disposable crap is fueling it all.
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np category: horror_of_horrors
technorati tags: horror_of_horrors Pacific Gyre Great Pacific Garbage Patch Ranger Rick environment Chris Jordan dying albatross
technorati tags: horror_of_horrors Pacific Gyre Great Pacific Garbage Patch Ranger Rick environment Chris Jordan dying albatross
T-1000 REVISITED
2009-10-16 09:39:20
by: jovial_cynic
by: jovial_cynic
We're getting closer and closer to Dooms Day.
First, this machine's ability to react to its surroundings amazing, and frightening:
And now, we're getting closer to making machines able to squeeze through tight spaces (like a liquid), and it's easy to see how this technology will be quickly adapted to be able to programmatically take on any shape possible. Horrifying.
First, this machine's ability to react to its surroundings amazing, and frightening:
And now, we're getting closer to making machines able to squeeze through tight spaces (like a liquid), and it's easy to see how this technology will be quickly adapted to be able to programmatically take on any shape possible. Horrifying.