what is it that is so interesting about mega disasters that americans seem glued to the television when they are on? they are played again and again, and watched religiously again and again. does anyone other than me find this mega disaster thing a little nauseating?
we have shows on:
1. a sudden star burst sending gamma rays to hit the earth, pulling everything to exponential pieces...
2. the theoretical black hole in the center of the milky way getting closer and closer to the earth, meaning that the earth will be sucked in...
3. the sun exploding all of a sudden, with no previous warning of it...
4. the earth being thrown off its orbit, thereby turning the earth onto an exactly opposite axis, meaning that the poles would all of a sudden be near the equator, but that all the land masses would be at the poles...
5. parts of the earth collapsing into the oceans via mega earthquakes that will come upon us so quickly that 3/4 of the (CONTINUED BELOW):
2007-06-10 17:38:44 · 3 answers · asked by Louiegirl_Chicago 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
people around the earthquake shall not be able to evacuate, which will then cause...
6. a mega tsunami to swell up and rush across the ocean (the pacific), drowning everyone in hawaii and japan, destroying about 1/8 of china with water before it turns around and then rushes back across the ocean again, hitting the leftover "shore" of the usa, overwashing 1/3 more of america...
7. an asteroid crashing into the earth at such a speed and so big that it blows up so much debris that the entire atmosphere of the whole earth will be a dark cloud for years on end, preventing sunlight from getting to the earth, thereby killing off all living things...
8. a sudden magma explosion that causes a mega volcano to blow out of yellowstone park, out of the two calderas under it, thereby sending ash for miles around, so fast and by so much that whole states of people will suddenly die of burning ash...
9. the north pole ice cap, greenland and anarctica ice shelves melting and breaking (MORE)
2007-06-10 17:47:26 · update #1
off as a result of global warming and greenhouse gases that are of course, OUR FAULT, which will of course cause new york city and all other towns and cities that lie on the shores of continents to be flooded to the extent that the people there will all drown and be pulled into the sea...
8? that a mountain, such as mt. ranier, will get so brittle at its top that sulfur from natural springs in creeks up there will blend with the snow, causing a sudden mudslide filled with burning clay to totally flood the entire towns surrounding the mountain, burning vast numbers of people that live there and suffocating even more of them...
9? that there will be attacks of strange, unheard of viri and bacteria that cannot be killed with antibiotics causing diseases like ebola, the plague, and smallpox or other diseases to spread from one to the other person so fast that all the people will of course get sick, therefore, that no medical services could be provided to them, so that they all will die
2007-06-10 17:58:01 · update #2
number whatever: that robots will become so smart that they will begin to kill the people that created them, forcing humans to move underground to become a rebel force against them lest they get into the ground also and eat everyone... ha ha ha!!!
it goes on and on and on and on, and yet, you are all afraid, forever terrorized of your sudden death and massive death to the earth that then you had better all of a sudden become a christian, for surely, the 7 horsemen of death are approaching, as well as the rapture, which will automatically pick you up and fly you straight into heaven! oh! you had better beware!
so tell me, why you are so fascinated by the mega disaster tv programs that you watch them again and again, giving you another thing to gossip about at the water cooler? is it fun? are your coworkers as frightened as you are? has your company got emergency plans in place for the terror days that are surely coming, like, in this decade so that you will have a way out?
2007-06-10 18:04:22 · update #3
90% of Americans say they watch TV for the sex and violence. The other 10% say they can get their own sex and violence. I hope that answers your question.
Edit: Men especially, in particular younger men, would be drawn to such a program because they are awestruck at natures power. When they see a tornado tear the roof off a building and shatter into a million pieces they are seeing force. When they see gigantic waves crash into seaside communities they are witnessing the total devastation much like in a video game where they are an attack helicopter and they leave behind them a path of destruction.
2007-06-14 12:30:59 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because shows like that are interesting. I especially like volcano shows myself, and will set the DVR to catch a good tornado show.
However, I have to agree that some of these shows are pretty far-fetched. It's summer and tornadoes are possible at any time where I live, so it's useful to know as much as possible about them. However, I really don't have time to worry about the sun exploding.
2007-06-10 17:44:43 · answer #2 · answered by Nightlight 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People looking at the disaster and shaking their head, 'How many more children are we going to have to produce today to make up for the loss?'
2015-06-02 02:30:26 · answer #3 · answered by gregg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋