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Cmdr Sy
Appetite 4 Destruction
The Firm.
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Posted - 2008.12.28 19:51:00 -
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 Originally by: 7shining7one7
the scariest thing is i'm beginning to understand more and more, the viewpoint of the real governing structure that resides underground and on our offworld bases on mars and the moon
Wait, what? 
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Cmdr Sy
Appetite 4 Destruction
The Firm.
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Posted - 2008.12.28 19:54:00 -
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Edited by: Cmdr Sy on 28/12/2008 19:54:40
By the way, this might have been posted already, but it is worth a look:
Linkification, baby!
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Cmdr Sy
Appetite 4 Destruction
The Firm.
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Posted - 2008.12.29 00:02:00 -
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Originally by: ReaperOfSly
I don't think the EU would be so quick to unite personally. I can just see a situation where the UK goes into ultra-paranoid close-all-borders isolation mode. It's certainly not the sensible thing to do, but I can see it happening anyway.
With the likely collapse of JIT trade under the posited conditions, the UK's carrying capacity would be adjusted downwards by an order of magnitude even before domestic agriculture failed. The full effects of a Yellowstone eruption would reduce the population to barbarism. Whether the mutual assistance made possible through international trade would make a difference is unknowable. Everyone would be in the same mess, ultimately depopulated a hundredfold and rebuilding under 14th century conditions with partial assistance from legacy technologies where a sufficient level of social complexity was retained.
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Cmdr Sy
Appetite 4 Destruction
The Firm.
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Posted - 2008.12.29 00:15:00 -
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Originally by: Arianhod
In other words we would all be playing internet spaceships using lost technology?
More like those survivors who knew practical agriculture would be engaging in collective bargaining with those survivors who had well-stocked hideouts and well-armed heavies, for their cut of whatever can be grown on their newly acquired land. Basically what happened when the Black Death generated a labour shortage - the landowners found they had to grant a raise and some time off to attract and retain workers lest they signed up with one who would and leave them to starve. Out of that came great progress and creativity, so it was not all bad. But I would not expect spaceship games.
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Cmdr Sy
Appetite 4 Destruction
The Firm.
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Posted - 2008.12.29 16:53:00 -
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Edited by: Cmdr Sy on 29/12/2008 16:53:29
Originally by: Ur235
Well were meant to have a global disaster in 2012 anyway. When another planet from another solar system enters our solar system and causes magnetic havoc...
Its been fortold in many different version of the Bibles...
Well just have to wait and see though
Yeah, I'm going to suspend judgement on that one. Death by low budget TV mini-series sounds much more likely to me.
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