http://www.endsofdays.com Your Resource for End of the World News and Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:06:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's a new viral pneumonia spreading around Western Ukraine at an alarming rate, described as "rather serious". While the world's concerns center around H1N1 at the moment, this is seemingly a new type of flu (or as the article says, "flue") that has already claimed lives and has enough people ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/FIxnOUThYvM/ http://www.endsofdays.com/new-flu-in-western-ukraine-boo/ This past Monday, March 1st, an asteroid whizzed by Earth, flying between the Earth and the moon, just 66,000 km away from us. It was at least 65 feet wide (possibly more than double that), and was travelling 12 miles per second. Now that's hardly an extinction level event, but ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/rhSsaTI3Tas/ http://www.endsofdays.com/super-asteroid-nearly-smacks-into-earth/ According to Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D), America (and in turn the world) dodged political and economic collapse and turmoil last September. After an electronic half-trillion-dollar run at the banks in the space of an hour or two, the Treasury took some measures to resolve the matter, further described here, with ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/kzgBomHYGN4/ http://www.endsofdays.com/political-and-economic-collapse-a-bullet-dodged/ Researchers at Aberdeen University have created a robot that learns and semi-sentiently manages its own evolution. As this article notes as it reports, this is very much asking for it. You can just picture a couple of Scottish scientists peeling out of the lab parking lot, chased by their Scottish robot ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/lyYVuIyzG8g/ http://www.endsofdays.com/scottish-evolving-robots-built/ Ok - there's good news and bad news. I always start with bad news. The bad news is that the presence of large amounts of solar particles near the Earth's magnetic field show that the shield that normally keeps these particles out isn't in good shape. We're in the low point ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/uzD3vmuU-74/ http://www.endsofdays.com/crack-in-earths-magnetic-shield-solar-storms-on-the-way/ 150,000,000 crabs swarm slowly onto Christmas Island. When their eggs hatch simultaneously, there could be as many as 75,000,000,000,000 of them. They walk slowly, but... man... Ya gotta wonder if they have enough sentience to know, even close to ballpark, how many of them there actually are. My hope is that ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/Zvha7PfdiFk/ http://www.endsofdays.com/crab-invasion/ In another not-so-shocking proof that pollution can really mess up a species, scientists have shown DNA damage and mutation in mice can be caused by polluted air. This is one of those experiments that just didn't need to happen, much as it may be nice to confirm the point from ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/RzdFj_a2NqA/ http://www.endsofdays.com/news-flash-pollution-affects-animals/ The latest in "the oil's REALLY running out and there's nothing we can really do about it since we're jackasses and let it get this bad and now emerging economies are tipping the balance towards destruction" news here. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/sNRAk0SMs7g/ http://www.endsofdays.com/oil-boil-over/ Extra! Extra! The oil business is full of greedy, morally vacuous weasels who are going to destroy us all. What? You already knew? Well then, how about an account of all of the back room deals, willful and criminal ignorance of environmental consequences and the insane ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/YfCmazuXv58/ http://www.endsofdays.com/review-of-stupid-to-the-last-drop/ Know your enemy! If an asteroid was on course to hit Earth, one of the best things to know, apparently, would be its composition. The strategy for dealing with it can change depending on what it’s made of. My guess is that it comes down to just how solid and strong ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/8XHEdr7UelQ/ http://www.endsofdays.com/asteroid-ingredients/ I don't like being watched. While it's classic paranoid behaviour to think you are being watched, recent evidence has led me to think that I am, in some capacity. In bleak future world scenarios, the Big Brother scenes typically come up. Those with the means finding ways to track and ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/f24D09y8WAc/ http://www.endsofdays.com/someones-reading-my-gmail-maybe-theyre-reading-yours-too/ If we're concerned for our long-term survival, we should pay attention to all other instances of extinctions, past and present, and take notes. Whether plague monkeys that remind us of ourselves through their faces and genetic similarity, or dinosaurs with whom we're connected as far as planetary domination, we'd be ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/FBzcx4oieqI/ http://www.endsofdays.com/the-sun-beam-solution/ What a strange sort of species we are. As all others got bigger teeth, sharper claws, and quicker strides, we managed to tool our way out of the natural reject pile, in turn usurping the top spot of the predatory chain through a cognitive back door. How fitting, then, for ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/1iW9KyvWo5c/ http://www.endsofdays.com/extinction-momentum-and-the-critical-band/ Have you been swimming in Lake Havasu? While the man-made body of water is similar to many others, it's been the one in the news. Recently, bacteria there entered through a child's nose and slowly ate at his brain until he died. Cases are rare on a global scale, but ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/C25kUk_1o2w/ http://www.endsofdays.com/the-rules-for-swimming-and-eating/ The most common type of gorilla is on the verge of extinction. This is only partly because of massive amounts of poaching. The main culprit? Ebola. Remember Ebola? In its peak, it was the trendiest pandemic threat in town. Endearing phrases like "plague monkey" and "flesh-eating disease" were really coined ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EndOfTheWorld/~3/XsIjC3qnCFo/ http://www.endsofdays.com/monkey-see-monkey-die/