Earth 'facing mass extinction'

[Milarz]

THE world is facing a mass extinction event that could be greater than that of the dinosaurs, new Australian research shows. More info at http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/world-facing-mass-extinction/story-e6frea8c-1225913659680

[Special]

yeah right

would be fun though if it did

[RandomManJay]

Bring it on I say! I've always wanted to die in a mass extinction, you never know it might be fun :P.

[Apple]

What...? So basically he he is saying an asteroid could hit the earth and wipe us all out due to climate change? What a load of crap.

[cocaine]

we get these time and time again lol. nothing will happen.

[GommeInc]

I've apparently died 5 times this millenium so far, I just don't know how many extinctions I can take :'(

[myke]

I've apparently died 5 times this millenium so far, I just don't know how many extinctions I can take :'(

i wish i was as strong and persistent as you :(

nooo ;(:(

or not..

just like the world ended on the 06/06/06 because the devil came :l

[Pyroka]

"Really, really big mass extinctions happen very, very rarely and they have very important long-term consequences."

Sorry, but were you around for the last extinction event? Thought not. Scientists are so good at theorising things and taking them up to a level of truth that anyone will believe. The dinosaurs got a asteroid in the face, that wasn't rare, that happens all the time on Earth, the amount of asteroids that could hit us is like mad. I love though, he says really really big mass extinctions, like there's some sorta level down, yknow it's just gonna be a little bit of extinction, nothing major.

BUT TOUCHÉ MR SCIENTIST, BECAUSE THE MAYANS ARE GONNA BLOW UP THE EARTH WAY BEFORE YOUR THEORIES CAN! BWAHAH!

and I don't recall 06/06/06 to be a very good day for me... So I guess that's how my end of the world went.

[GommeInc]

I love though, he says really really big mass extinctions, like there's some sorta level down, yknow it's just gonna be a little bit of extinction, nothing major.
Big mass extinction = Suffered alot.
Little mass extinction = Went out laughing.
Tiny mass extinction = Barely noticed anything.

I'm a scientist, I knows these things :D

[Pyroka]

Big mass extinction = Suffered alot.
Little mass extinction = Went out laughing.
Tiny mass extinction = Barely noticed anything.

I'm a scientist, I knows these things :D

LOL Well you did theorise on the two Ryan's theory... Two identicals cannot... :(

[Wig44.]

Really, really big mass extinctions happen very, very rarely and they have very important long-term consequences.

Professor Subtlety strikes again.

[-:Undertaker:-]

We (or our politicians) need to implement a mass-extinction tax scheme on just about everything combined with legislation and regulation. Oh and we could throw in a extinction-trading scheme just to be on the safe side. We also need to get all the music artists who have large egos to fly here, call for taxes left right and centre of which they themselves can easily afford and do some concerts to make us feel like we are saving the world.

..and we could round it off nicely with a speech by A$ Gore (but no questions allowed!!)

[FlyingJesus]

"Organisms that might have adapted in the past may not be able to this time," Dr Alroy said.


Surely if that's the case no-one should give a **** because they aren't a worthy species according to survival of the fittest. The mass extinction he's on about is deep sea bacteria and crap like that which does nothing anyway

[syko2006]

Ahhhh, another mass extinction. :( It's ok though, we probably won't live long enough to see this extinction, not with 2012 and all. :rolleyes:

[Apple]

Big mass extinction = Suffered alot.
Little mass extinction = Went out laughing.
Tiny mass extinction = Barely noticed anything.

I'm a scientist, I knows these things :D

How can we barely notice anything if it is a mass extinction, doesn't mass extinction mean we all die and go extinct lol? :S

[FlyingJesus]

Nope .

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[AgnesIO]

I thought I was supposed to die in 2012.

Life is so confusing :(

[Narnat,]

I never really know what to think of these kind of things if I'm honest.

[AgnesIO]

I never really know what to think of these kind of things if I'm honest.

I'll teach you:

'**** IM GONNA DIE'

Na not really, I always think if it happens - who cares? We can't stop things like it happening, and if you die, you die?

[Mathew]

Not sure what the mayans are talking about.. my calendar only goes to the 31st December 2010 :'(

In all seriousness though - if we all do happen to die at once, everyone will be going at the same time. It's not like you're being singled out to die while Bill Gates and Richard Branson can live. That's the odd thing about death; we'll never know how we die.

[Dinosaurawrr]

WOOOOOO can't wait
because this is the first time weve had a 'scare' isn't it? :]

wwe die we die no biggie lol

[Milarz]

Whats this 06/06/06 ive heard someone els say it earlier today :S what happened on that date?

[AgnesIO]

Whats this 06/06/06 ive heard someone els say it earlier today :S what happened on that date?

It's the devil thing.

Nothing happened, it was just losers trying to scare other losers loll

[Mathew]

Whats this 06/06/06 ive heard someone els say it earlier today :S what happened on that date?

666 is supposedly the number which represents the devil and people thought he'd come and swallow us all up on 6/6/6. Absolute tosh, but I remember it being in the news.