"but Albert, what about this??....."

WBOB · Post by **WBOB** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:37 am

maybe this will help deter global warming?

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Science/stor ... 987&page=1

damn,.. now we'll have to deal with global polution.
No wait! the Kyoto treaty covers this!?!

sharkmansix · Post by **sharkmansix** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:41 am

This is a bigger threat then we may ever know...

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Science/stor ... 372&page=1

Same news agency bigger blown out of proportion threat.

sevesd93 · Post by **sevesd93** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:50 am

HOLY SH!T WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:41 pm

sevesd93 wrote:HOLY SH!T WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!

100% of us, at some point will indeed.

Massage...Bored · Post by **Massage...Bored** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:20 pm

Being fearful of this stuff is about as pointless as being afriad of terrorists.

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:40 pm

Agreed...the whole show last night was a joke. Basically they took ten Discovery Channel shows and condesned it to two hours.

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:06 pm

Massage...Bored wrote:Being fearful of this stuff is about as pointless as being afriad of terrorists.

Except terrorists actually are a threat

Massage...Bored · Post by **Massage...Bored** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:03 pm

To you? In Fort Wayne? I think your pretty safe.

Be Afraid!!!!!!!!!!

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:27 pm

Probably am. For now.

I'm not afraid, but I do believe our nation needs to be on its toes. Chicago and the Sears tower are 3 hours away. I have relatives that live near the Mackinac Bridge. ITT (not the school) is here in Fort Wayne and is probably a very real target. There's nothing wrong with taking precautions.

=^-..-^= · Post by **=^-..-^=** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:35 pm

Not to mention Powers Hamburgers and Coney Island hot dogs â€“ those have to be offensive to some Islamic code somewhere. . . .

They hate our freedom, and our coney dogs.

echosauce1 · Post by **echosauce1** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:20 am

I understand being smart and taking precautions.. but, I also cannot waste time with worry about this sh*t. Hell, chances are cancer will kill me before anything else will, or some random wild animal attack, or a car crash, or a metorite from outer space. Some will disagree with me but I belive when my ticket is punched, it's gonna be punched. Doesn't matter what I try to do, ding dong, the witch is dead. So what can I do? Enjoy living.

If you worry, your dead.
If you don't worry, your dead.
f**k it. I'm gonna go live while I can.

Massage...Bored · Post by **Massage...Bored** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:36 am

echosauce1 wrote: If you worry, your dead.
If you don't worry, your dead.
f#ck it. I'm gonna go live while I can.

Thats my philosophy right there.

sharkmansix · Post by **sharkmansix** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:27 am

I wonder what your stastical changes area of dieing in an act of terrorism?

So how do these common risks compare to your risk of dying in a terrorist attack? To try to calculate those odds realistically, Michael Rothschild, a former business professor at the University of Wisconsin, worked out a couple of plausible scenarios. For example, he figured that if terrorists were to destroy entirely one of America's 40,000 shopping malls per week, your chances of being there at the wrong time would be about one in one million or more. Rothschild also estimated that if terrorists hijacked and crashed one of America's 18,000 commercial flights per week that your chance of being on the crashed plane would be one in 135,000.

Even if terrorists were able to pull off one attack per year on the scale of the 9/11 atrocity, that would mean your one-year risk would be one in 100,000 and your lifetime risk would be about one in 1300. (300,000,000 Ã· 3,000 = 100,000 Ã· 78 years = 1282) In other words, your risk of dying in a plausible terrorist attack is much lower than your risk of dying in a car accident, by walking across the street, by drowning, in a fire, by falling, or by being murdered.

Hmm. Got any other brain busters?

From:
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb081106.shtml

^ It's a good read, IMHO.

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:00 am

In other words, your risk of dying in a plausible terrorist attack is much lower than your risk of dying in a car accident, by walking across the street, by drowning, in a fire, by falling, or by being murdered.

I wear a seatbelt, I look both ways when crossing the street, I don't swim very often and when I do, I have a friend with me, etc... I take precautions and try to reduce risk. I'm even working on losing weight to lower my risk of weight related illness as I approach 40 (YIKES!!).

WBOB · Post by **WBOB** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:45 am

Being fearful of this stuff is about as pointless as being afriad of terrorists

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060831/ap_ ... eat_within

ignorance of a threat within our own country(or any
other allying country) is counterproductive.

they(the terrorists) would welcome us being complacent.
they are very patient, and thorough!