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**Serttyfd** · 09-04-2007, 05:04 AM

Excellent list!
Vacuum energy is my favorite!

We can add to this mix, a few other mass extinction events, which could happen at any time, we know almost nothing about, and have happened frequently in the recent past. Such things are;

1. Super Volcanoes
2. Magnetic Pole shift
3. Massive hyper-onset super ice age
4. Comet or Asteroid impact
5. Mass Planktonic extinction
6. Random blasts of cosmic radiation
7. Super massive Solar flares
8. Super spontaneous global warming
9. World wide incurable pathogen outbreak
10.Tectonic plate reversal
11. Global Typhoons

Which I suppose makes the times we are living in to be one of the calmest in thousands, perhaps millions of years...

..almost..too quiet....

Bill Bryson seems to take great delight in listing things that will cause you immense existential...uh...inconvieniece in his writings and his book, A Short History Of Nearly Everything, is no exception. It goes into great detail about some of the events in the above list. I freely confess that I felt incredibly small and vulnerable after reading that book.

09-04-2007, 05:04 AM	#24
Serttyfd Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 422 Senior Member	Excellent list! Vacuum energy is my favorite! We can add to this mix, a few other mass extinction events, which could happen at any time, we know almost nothing about, and have happened frequently in the recent past. Such things are; 1. Super Volcanoes 2. Magnetic Pole shift 3. Massive hyper-onset super ice age 4. Comet or Asteroid impact 5. Mass Planktonic extinction 6. Random blasts of cosmic radiation 7. Super massive Solar flares 8. Super spontaneous global warming 9. World wide incurable pathogen outbreak 10.Tectonic plate reversal 11. Global Typhoons Which I suppose makes the times we are living in to be one of the calmest in thousands, perhaps millions of years... ..almost..too quiet.... Bill Bryson seems to take great delight in listing things that will cause you immense existential...uh...inconvieniece in his writings and his book, A Short History Of Nearly Everything, is no exception. It goes into great detail about some of the events in the above list. I freely confess that I felt incredibly small and vulnerable after reading that book.
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