Watched SciFi Channel's "Countdown to Doomsday" this week, and I probably shouldn't have... especially since Matt Laurer of Dateline NBC was hosting it.
Boy was that a mistake! I can't believe I even wasted VCR tape on it!
Okay, here is the entire two hours in a nutshell...
We're all gonna die!
Got it? It doesn't matter if it's from solar flares, super-volcanoes, global warming, nuclear terrorism, bio-terrorism, pandemics, alien invasions, robot conspiracy, sudden gamma bursts from nearby stars, or the random asteroid or comet coming near us, our number is UP! It may not happen tomorrow or the next ten years or even the next century, but that's it! We're toast!
And you can forget moving to a different place, or choosing paper instead of plastic, or buying that hybrid car you always thought about buying. It won't matter! We're gonners one way or another.
In fact, the special pretty much glossed over the truly SciFi stuff to focus on what they REALLY WANTED to deal with... namely Robobore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth". GREAT... just what we needed to see... a stupid plug for a documentary hosted by the LOSER of the 2000 Fiasco.
And here's the kicker... with the exception of the environmentalist stuff, everything else on their "countdown" is pretty much a done deal. When or if it happens, there's NOTHING that can be done to stop it! Oh, but we should try to spend a few trillion here and there to try to figure when these things are gonna happen so we can get some kind of notification, right?
You know what? Some of the scientists got one thing right... if the human race is to survive, it's not going to happen sticking around on Earth. If we're going to spend those trillions of taxpayer dollars, it had better be on getting our sorry butts off-world and colonizing other planets. Otherwise start the wake now and just get toasted, because nobody will be around afterwards to host it.
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