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2015-06-21 Science & Technology

Scientist Says Humans Will Be Extinct In 100 Years

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-06-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Since all of Manhattan was under water in 2015,
I believe you!

Posted by newc 2015-06-21 00:22|| 2015-06-21 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Scratch a greenie, find a homocidal maniac.

Posted by Shipman 2015-06-21 01:55|| 2015-06-21 01:55|| Front Page Top

#3 According to Wiki, Frank Fenner been dead for 5 years.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-21 02:15|| 2015-06-21 02:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Frank Fenner been dead for 5 years.

His prediction done caught up with him. Prolly for the best. Save him the embarrassment and all.

Posted by SteveS 2015-06-21 04:21|| 2015-06-21 04:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Reason for the article being published now ?

One of Frank's former students just got around to reading his book.

Way to go! You get an A.

Posted by Lemuel and Company6787 2015-06-21 07:43|| 2015-06-21 07:43|| Front Page Top

#6 I've seen this a number of places on the internet, and it it does sound dreadfully shocking. But not only is the good scientist dead five years, but so is the article. I clicked in the link in Blossom Unains5562's submission, and got this:

Frank Fenner sees no hope for humans
CHERYL JONES THE AUSTRALIAN JUNE 16, 2010 12:00AM

And they wonder why we become skeptics.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-06-21 10:20|| 2015-06-21 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Found a glyptodon in my garden the other day. Just ruined the green beans.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-06-21 11:17|| 2015-06-21 11:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Didn't they claim this very thing around 100 years ago?

Posted by DarthVader 2015-06-21 11:49|| 2015-06-21 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Never coulfd figure the image thing but the real threat of human extinction comes from this!

http://i.imgur.com/Sme3TUsl.jpg

Posted by Chuckles Shatle5927 2015-06-21 11:50|| 2015-06-21 11:50|| Front Page Top

#10 @#3: Wassamatta? You have a problem with recycling? Denier!!!!!!!! ;>

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-06-21 12:39|| 2015-06-21 12:39|| Front Page Top

#11 I have seen the future 500 yrs from now and it is Idiocracy.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-06-21 13:50|| 2015-06-21 13:50|| Front Page Top

#12 On rereading, I fear my post was unclear. Blossom Unains5562's article is dated 6/20/2015. The Australian article it points to is dated 6/16/2010.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-06-21 17:07|| 2015-06-21 17:07|| Front Page Top

#13 SNIFF, SNIFF, HE MUST HAVE WATCHED "THE AVENGERS:AGE OF ULTRON" BACK IN THE 1960'S - 1970'S - YOU KNOW, 2015???

Quite possible, given once again that the consensus of our future mighty OWG Govts-Perts which no American = Amerikan has voted for, nor been asked to, on GWCC is that there is no consensus.

D *** NG IT, GOD = "PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE" LADY IS WAITING FOR THE VOTE!

* "MINI-ICE AGE" = AFAIC, refers to a coming period of likely intensified SOLAR = SUN-LED HEATING UP OF THE EARTH + PLANETARY SYSTEM, as affected by interim periods of cold, icy weather ee "THE GREAT SLUSHY".

As a Madonna fan, I don't see any hard glacial ice as per 12-25,000 years ago - I see slushy.

As a reminder ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN, WID 7000 YEARS OF HISTORY, WILL NOT BE LIVEABLE IN 20 YEARS [circa Year 2035 plus-minus] | IRAN - DRIED OUT!? POOR PLANNING, [ineffective or disastrous] POPULIST POLICIES, AND DROUGHT TO CULMINATE IN CRITICAL WATER SHORTAGE, 50.0MILYUHN PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO EMIGRATE TO SURVIVE.

Be it Iran or any other Nation, Maha-Rushian Historie' says the above is often a catalyst to wage war.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-06-21 19:47|| 2015-06-21 19:47|| Front Page Top

#14 I've just gotten done reading Neal Stephenson's Seveneves. Frankly, if mankind can survive the cataclysm in *that* overpopulation doesn't phase me.

Posted by Secret Master 2015-06-21 21:47|| 2015-06-21 21:47|| Front Page Top

#15 "The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, "Keep to-morrow dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. They then go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun."

Posted by James 2015-06-21 22:11|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2015-06-21 22:11|| Front Page Top

#16 SO now I know where the Pope cribbed his "facts" for the environmental part of his encyclical.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-06-21 22:31|| 2015-06-21 22:31|| Front Page Top

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